Note 1 : Includes active physicians in clinical and non-clinical practice (for example, research and academia) who have an MD degree and a valid mailing address. Note 2 : Excludes residents, physicians in the military as well as semi-retired and retired physicians.
Note 3 : Excludes non-registered physicians who requested that their information not be published as of December 31 of the reference year (see Methodological Notes for details).
Note 4 : For those physicians for whom date of birth was not available, ages were calculated using year of MD graduation, with age at MD graduation equal to 25 years.
Note 5 : Average Age calculations exclude physicians where age is unknown and where age is less than 20 or more than 90.
Note 6 : Specialist physicians include certificants of the Royal College and/or the CMQ. All other physicians are counted under family medicine, including certificants of the CFPC, unless noted otherwise.
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Distribution of Canadian family medicine physicians 1978-2024, by gender
In 2024, just **** of family physicians in Canada were female. In 2023, for the first time, there were more female family physicians in Canada than their male counterpart. Indeed, the share of female family physicians have been slowly increasing in the reported time interval, now reaching over half. This statistic shows the distribution of family medicine physicians in Canada from 1978 to 2023, sorted by gender.Â
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CIHI. (October 29, 2025). Distribution of Canadian family medicine physicians from 1978 to 2024, by gender [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ. Retrieved August 06, 2026, from /statistics/496712/number-of-family-medicine-physicians-in-canada-by-gender/
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Distribution of Canadian family medicine physicians from 1978 to 2024, by gender [Graph], CIHI, October 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: /statistics/496712/number-of-family-medicine-physicians-in-canada-by-gender/