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Physicians (per 1,000 people): Vietnam, 1980–2021

Latest (2021)
1.11 physicians per 1,000 people
Source
World Bank
Code
SH.MED.PHYS.ZS
Frequency
Yearly
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Definition

Physicians include generalist and specialist medical practitioners.

What the series shows

The series runs from 1980 to 2021 (26 years of data). It moved from 0.24 to 1.11 physicians per 1,000 people, a change of 359.3%. The highest value was 1.11 in 2021 and the lowest 0.24 in 1980. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.

Using it in a thesis

Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.

Values by year

YearValue (physicians per 1,000 people)
20211.11
20200.86
20190.99
20180.88
20160.83
20150.80
20140.78
20120.82
20100.71
20090.70
20080.67
20070.66
20060.64
20050.64
20020.57
20010.54
19990.52
19980.48
19970.57
19920.44
19910.41
19900.40
19890.39
19861.06
19810.25
19800.24

Comparison with other countries

CountryLatest yearValue
Vietnam20211.11
Thailand20210.54
Indonesia20230.52
Malaysia20232.34
Philippines20210.79
Singapore20222.83
Cambodia20190.21
Laos20220.33
Myanmar20190.76
China20223.11

How to cite (APA 7)

World Bank. (2026). Physicians (per 1,000 people), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?locations=VN

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period with the variable name sh_med_phys_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.

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