Number of doctors in Canada outpacing population growth 

The number of physicians in Canada continues to grow at a faster rate than the population, according to new research. Between 2014 and 2018, the Canadian population grew by around 4.6%, while the number of doctors increased by more than 12%. The single greatest increase in the number of physicians since 2011 occurred between 2017 and 2018, when there were some 241 doctors per 100,000 people in Canada. And although countries including the U.S. and U.K. have similar physician-to-population ratios as Canada, still others — including Spain and France — have ratios that are almost twice as high. Researchers also found that in the five years between 2014 and 2018, there’s been a more than 20% increase in the number of female providers in Canada. At the same time, there was only a 7% increase in the number of male doctors.