The table and bar chart displays the number of doctors in Australia and proportions of doctors by gender and place of birth from 1986 to 2006.
Overall, while the proportion of women doctors and doctors who born in overseas followed similar upward patterns, the reverse is true for men and medical professionals citizens from Australia. In addition, the number of doctors in Australia grew up in the same numbers between 1986 and 2006.
Starting at around 75% in 1986, the number of male doctors decreased slightly to 60% in 2006. The opposite is for female doctors started at nearly 25% and experienced slightly increase to roughly 40% in the last year. While the number of medical professionals who born in Australia started at above 60% in 1986 and this was followed by moderately decrease to 50% in the final year, the doctors who born overseas were under 40% in 1986, after which it saw a noticeable rise to 50% and had the same proportion as the former doctors.
Starting at 23.720 in 1986, the number of doctors who lived in Australia rose to 29.090 in 1996. After a slightly increase, the number of doctors rose noticeably to 35.450 in the last year.