Number of doctors practicing in the UK 2024, by country

Published by Jenny Yang, Feb 28, 2025

In 2024, there were over 318,000 medical practitioners employed in the United Kingdom. This included 271,000 doctors in England, 23,400 in Scotland, 14,500 thousand in Wales, and 9,400 thousand in Northern Ireland.

Annual number of medical practitioners employed in the United Kingdom in 2024 (in 1,000), by country

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Release date

October 2024

Region

United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)

Survey time period

April 2023 to March 2024

Supplementary notes

NOTE: An update in 2021 changed the Standard Occupational Classifications (SOC) from SOC 2010 to SOC 2020.

This statistic is using original data from the Office for National Statistics and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0.

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