Table 1.

Total number of dentists according to World Health Organization (WHO) region and globally

Region	Total no. of dentists*	Population†	Population per dentist
The Americas	671,189	966,494,931	1,440
Europe	450,555	906,995,748	2,013
Western Pacific	238,595	1,857,588,459	7,786
South East Asia	122,545	1,855,067,718	15,138
Eastern Mediterranean	110,545	612,580,128	5,541
Africa	22,110	927,370,720	41,943
Global	1,615,539	7,126,097,704	4,411

^*Reference ¹⁶.

^†Reference ¹⁸ and WHO Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, New York, 2013.