The table depicts how many medics there was in Australia in 3 various years from 1986 to 2006, while bar graphs compare their percentages in gender and origin in the same period.
Overall, it is evident that the number of doctors substantially increased over the study period. It is also clear from the bar charts that the proportion of male doctors was notably higher than female ones throughout all the period, and according to the second one, the number of local doctors was bigger than foreign ones, while their number gradually declined by the end of the timeline.
Initially, 23 720 doctors worked in Australia, while only around 25% of them were women, 75% of them were representatives of the opposite sex. Moreover, approximately the figure for indigenous doctors was around 62%, whereas 32% was foreigners.
In contrast, the number of doctors had dramatically risen from 23 720 to 29 060, by 1996. However, the number of foreign doctors and the number of women doctors also experienced moderate growth, while the figure for the former increased to around 32%, the number of latter one went up to 41%.
By the end of the period, the proportion for both local and foreign doctors was 50%, at the same time, the percentage of male and female doctors witnessed a slight fluctuation. Therefore, the quantity of doctors was 35 450, in 2006.