Dentists per 10,000 people — all countries

Dentists per 10,000 people — World

Dentists per 10,000 people in the world in 2018 — 2.86 per 10k. Since 2018, the indicator has risen by 0%.

2018 2.86 per 10k
World rank
Period maximum 2.86 per 10k2018
Period minimum 2.86 per 10k2018

Trend over time

2018–2018 · per 10,000 people

Change over the period: +0 (+0%)

Comparison, 2018

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: World

World 2.86 per 10k
World computed 2.86 per 10k
Dentists per 10,000 people — World, by year World All countries CSV XLSX
Year per 10k Change Change, %
2018 2.86

About the indicator

The number of dentistry personnel per 10,000 people, from WHO. Dentistry is set apart as a separate indicator because almost everywhere it is financed differently from the rest of medicine — more often out of personal funds — and provision of it is poorly predicted by overall provision of physicians.

Important: The World Bank database has no such indicator, so coverage here is narrower: 193 territories against 245 for nursing personnel.

Source: Global Health Observatory (WHO), license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.