Table 1.

Geographical distribution of P/Os and comparison of trends from 2003.

		2018				2003
	Category	Prosthetists/Orthotists	Percentage distribution of P/Os in the province (as a % of total number in SA)	Population of the province (as a % of total national population)	P/Os per 10,000 population	Prosthetists/Orthotists	P/Os per 10,000 population	Percentage change in MOPs per 10,000 population from 2003 to 2018
1	Gauteng	204	37.5	25.3	0.14	91	0.10	40.0
2	KwaZulu-Natal	114	21.0	19.6	0.10	35	0.04	150.0
3	Mpumalanga	34	6.3	7.9	0.08	11	0.03	166.7
4	Western Cape	73	13.4	11.5	0.11	34	0.07	57.1
5	Limpopo	15	2.8	10.2	0.03	7	0.01	200.0
6	Eastern Cape	49	9.0	11.5	0.08	27	0.04	100.0
7	North West	14	2.6	6.8	0.04	6	0.02	100.0
8	Free State	28	5.1	5.1	0.10	18	0.06	66.7
9	Northern Cape	8	1.5	2.1	0.07	3	0.03	133.3
10	Foreign	5	0.9	-	-	1	-
	TOTAL	544	100	100	0.10	233	0.05	100.0