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. 2018 Jul 3;77(1):1492825. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2018.1492825

Table 3.

Density of health professionals (per 100,000) in North America.

  2000–2004 Ratio 2005–2009 Ratio 2010–2014* Ratio
Physicians            
USA 280 1.00 289 1.00 299 1.00
 Alaska 230 0.82 248 0.86 255 0.85
Canada 189 1.00 195 1.00 216 1.00
 Yukon 171 0.91 218 1.12 194 0.90
 Northwest Territories 107 0.57 107 0.55 89 0.41
 Nunavut 29 0.15 36 0.19 36 0.17
Dentists            
USA 59 1.00 60 1.00 60 1.00
 Alaska 73 1.22 75 1.26 78 1.30
Canada 57 1.00 59 1.00 60 1.00
 Yukon 81 1.42 106 1.80 118 1.88
 Northwest Territories ] 64 ] 1.12 115 1.95 127 1.07
 Nunavut 142 2.41 209 1.61
Nurses            
USA 779 1.00 822 1.00 880 1.00
 Alaska 766 0.98 758 0.92 788 0.90
Canada 755 1.00 785 1.00 787 1.00
 Yukon 909 1.20 1007 1.28 1061 1.35
 Northwest Territories ] 1101 ] 1.46 1413 1.80 1410 1.79
 Nunavut

Notes: * 2014 or most recently available data.

Sources: Canadian data from CIHI; USA data from AHRF. See text for details.

USA data for the period 2000–2009 are from the 2010/12 vintage AHRF datafiles accessed in 2013 and data for 2010–2014 are from the 2015/16 vintage datafiles accessed in 2016.