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Number of active physicians in the U.S. in 2021, by specialty and gender

Characteristic	Male	Female
Allergy and Immunology	2,849	2,158
Anatomic/Clinical Pathology	7,433	4,738
Anesthesiology	31,188	11,032
Cardiovascular Disease	18,795	3,448
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	4,520	5,441
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	2,360	266
Critical Care Medicine	10,281	3,861
Dermatology	6,091	6,665
Emergency Medicine	33,257	13,565
Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism	3,867	4,367
Family Medicine/General Practice	68,411	50,053
Gastroenterology	12,576	3,083
General Surgery	19,234	5,627
Geriatric Medicine	2,761	3,382
Hematology and Oncology	10,826	5,828
Infectious Disease	5,657	4,242
Internal Medicine	73,016	47,115
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics	2,655	3,044
Interventional Cardiology	4,338	390
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine	2,771	3,281
Nephrology	8,153	3,388
Neurological Surgery	5,193	551
Neurology	9,499	4,340
Neuroradiology	3,471	834
Obstetrics and Gynecology	16,777	25,682
Ophthalmology	13,786	5,152
Orthopedic Surgery	17,374	1,090
Otolaryngology	7,798	1,812
Pain Medicine and Pain Management	5,007	1,220
Pediatric Anesthesiology (Anesthesiology)	1,381	1,455
Pediatric Cardiology	1,858	1,131
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	1,398	1,374
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology	1,408	1,768
Pediatrics	21,063	39,189
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	6,224	3,474
Plastic Surgery	5,949	1,275
Preventive Medicine	4,192	2,359
Psychiatry	22,690	15,711
Pulmonary Disease	4,250	616
Radiation Oncology	3,884	1,489
Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology	19,876	7,304
Rheumatology	3,373	3,034
Sports Medicine	2,320	881
Sports Medicine (Orthopedic Surgery)	2,848	217
Thoracic Surgery	4,079	369
Urology	9,074	1,003
Vascular and Interventional Radiology	3,611	399
Vascular surgery	3,414	623

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January 2023

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2021

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The AMA Physician Dataset defines gender as "male" OR "female." Although limited to these categories within our analyses, we acknowledge sex and gender as fluid, non-binary variables.

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The number of male physicians outnumbers female physicians in the U.S. in most specialties. The only major exceptions are found in pediatrics, child and adolescent psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, although female physicians do slightly outnumber males in a few other specialties. As of 2021, there were around 68,400 male family medicine/general practice physicians compared to 50,000 women in this specialty.

Physicians in the U.S.

Both the number of doctors and rate of doctors in the U.S. have increased over the years. As of 2021, there were around 946,800 active doctors of medicine in the U.S. This was around 29.9 physicians per 10,000 civilian population. In 1995, this rate stood at 24.2 physicians per 10,000 population.

Physicians by state

The states with the highest overall number of active physicians are California, New York, Texas, and Florida. However, the states with the highest rate of physicians per 10,000 civilian population include Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maryland. The District of Columbia has the highest rate of physicians by a large margin, with around 74.6 physicians per 10,000 population. The state with the highest annual compensation for physicians is Oklahoma, where physicians earn an annual average of 337,000 dollars.