Table 1.

Evolution of absolute number of medical undergraduate places and ratio per inhabitants

Municipality characteristics	2009		2018		Increase in medical undergraduate places per 10,000 inhabitants from 2010 to 2018
	Medical undergraduate medical places		Medical undergraduate medical places
	Places	Ratio per 10,000 inhabitants	Places	Ratio per 10,000 inhabitants	Absolute increase	Relative increase (%)
Macro-region
Midwest	953	0.69	2759	1.72	1.03	150.08
Northeast	3318	0.62	8362	1.47	0.85	137.95
North	1293	0.84	2701	1.49	0.65	76.76
Southeast	8448	1.04	16723	1.91	0.86	82.61
South	2224	0.80	5210	1.75	0.95	118.24
Population
Up to 100,000 inhabitants	1305	0.15	5177	0.55	0.40	266.92
Between 100,001 and 500,000 inhabitants	5855	1.25	13812	2.65	1.40	111.62
Above 500,000 inhabitants	9076	1.58	16766	2.71	1.13	71.22
Physician inhabitant ratio in 2009
Up to 01 physician per 1000 inhabitants	2677	0.58	6477	1.29	0.71	123.32
Between 01 and 1.5 physicians per 1000 inhabitants	3317	0.74	9016	1.83	1.09	146.47
Above 1.5 physicians per 1000 inhabitants	10242	1.02	20262	1.86	0.84	82.35
GDP per capita in 2009
Below the national average	1383	0.19	4534	0.58	0.39	209.05
Above the national average	14853	1.26	31221	2.40	1.14	90.02
Medical school ownership
State public schools	1712	0.09	2362	0.11	0.02	26.73
Federal public schools	4561	0.24	6663	0.32	0.08	34.18
Municipal public schools	266	0.01	1557	0.07	0.06	437.64
Private	9697	0.51	25173	1.21	0.70	138.44