Doctor density in Mexico 2023| Statista

Number of practicing doctors in Mexico from 2006 to 2023 (per 1,000 inhabitants)

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Release date

August 2025

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Region

Mexico

Survey time period

2006 to 2023

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includes physicians licensed to practice medicine, interns, and residents working in the public and private health care sector. Retired and non-practicing doctors are excluded.

Supplementary notes

Figures prior to 2020 were retrieved from previous reporting.

The source does not provide an exact date of publication. The release date given corresponds to the date of access.

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In Mexico, the number of practicing doctors amounted to **** professionals per 1,000 inhabitants in 2023, an increase compared to the figures reported a year earlier when there were **** practicing physicians per every thousand people. During 2022, the number of physicians in Mexico totaled approximately ******* professionals.

Density of doctors worldwide

In a global comparison, Mexico ranks in a middle category for density of medical doctors per 1,000 population, similar to Canada and Colombia. Among the countries in the upper bracket for highest density of doctors are Cuba, Sweden, Belgium, and Uruguay. Along with Mexico’s moderate density of doctors, over ** percent of the population was considered vulnerable due to lack of access to health services in Mexico as of 2022, up from around **** percent a decade earlier.

Health care in Mexico

Nearly ********* people in Mexico held public health insurance through Seguro Popular in 2020, which was replaced by a new institution at the beginning of that year, called INSABI (Instituto Nacional de Salud para el Bienestar). However, the IMSS (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social) led by a large margin as the largest provider of health insurance in the North American country.