based on number of doctors registered in the Federal Council of Medicine (Conselho Federal de Medicina, CFM) and population
Supplementary notes
*Preliminary figure
The figures were calculated based on data obtained on the 31 of december for each year and the projection of the Brazilian medical demography model. The general population growth rate is the one estimated by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics).
In 2025, there were approximately **** medical doctors per 1,000 people in Brazil, an increase compared to the physician density of about **** doctors per 1,000 inhabitants reported a year earlier. That same year, the number of doctors registered in the South American country totaled about ** professionals, most of them based in São Paulo.
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