Table 1.
The numbers of dental training institutions and practicing dentists in each type of dental training institution and the numbers of overall practicing dentists in 20 cities and counties in Taiwan in 2018.
| City or countya | Single-system |
Program-management |
Collaborating |
bDentists in any institutions | Overall dentists | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| institutions | dentists | institutions | dentists | institutions | dentists | |||
| Taipei City | 27 | 823 | 9 | 98 | 63 | 764 | 1154 | 3269 |
| New Taipei City | 39 | 402 | 4 | 39 | 88 | 521 | 711 | 2616 |
| Taoyuan City | 12 | 187 | 2 | 17 | 43 | 305 | 358 | 1189 |
| Taichung City | 25 | 313 | 3 | 20 | 59 | 331 | 486 | 1922 |
| Tainan City | 6 | 171 | 3 | 33 | 29 | 273 | 360 | 1103 |
| Kaohsiung City | 14 | 177 | 3 | 143 | 42 | 299 | 474 | 1778 |
| Keeling City | 2 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 42 | 186 |
| Hsinchu City | 5 | 51 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 47 | 92 | 322 |
| Chiayi City | 2 | 38 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 45 | 49 | 226 |
| Hsinchu County | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 22 | 243 |
| Miaoli County | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 25 | 35 | 170 |
| Changhua County | 5 | 89 | 2 | 32 | 16 | 64 | 173 | 584 |
| Nantou County | 2 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 26 | 169 |
| Yunlin County | 2 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 28 | 174 |
| Chiayi County | 4 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 37 | 108 |
| Pingtung County | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 24 | 210 |
| Penghu County | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 36 |
| Yilan County | 2 | 23 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 21 | 38 | 172 |
| Hualien County | 3 | 29 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 44 | 149 |
| Taitung County | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 67 |
| Total | 158 | 2440 | 32 | 422 | 406 | 2809 | 4172 | 14,693 |
| Maximum gap | >39 | >137.17 | >9 | >35.75 | 44 | 109.14 | 164.86 | 90.81 |
| Coefficient of variation | 1.34 | 1.63 | 1.35 | 1.75 | 1.28 | 1.50 | 1.45 | 1.29 |
| Gini coefficient | – | 0.420 | – | 0.496 | – | 0.351 | 0.353 | 0.329 |
a
The first six items are municipalities.
b
Some training institutions have both the statuses of main and collaborating institutions. The repeated calculation of the number of practicing dentists has been deducted.