Fig. 1.
Physicians working around the world. The relative size of each territory on the map corresponds to the proportion of all physicians in the world who work there. In 2004 there were 7.7 million physicians working around the world. If physicians were distributed according to population, there would be 12.4 physicians to every 10,000 people. The most concentrated 50% of physicians live in territories with less than a fifth of the world population. The worst off fifth are served by only 2% of the world’s physicians. Note the disproportionately low number of physicians in Africa (red). © Copyright Sasi Group (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan). Reproduced under Creative Commons license.