The table provides the number of doctors, while the bar charts show the percentage of doctors in Australia by gender and place of birth in 1986, 1996, and 2006. Overall, the number of doctors initially grew steadily year by year, while males born in Australia made up the biggest percentages each year.
Focusing on the number of doctors in Australia generally shows an upward trend. In 1986, there were 23,720,and in the next given year, there was a modest rise to 29,060. This was followed by another increase, albeit exponentially to 35,450 in the final year.
In contrast, the percentage of doctors by gender and place of birth shows that males born in Australia made up the majority percentage in the starting year at 73% and 63%, respectively, while figures for females born overseas also started at 25% and 35%, respectively. Similarly, while there was a less significant drop in the percentage of males to 60%, thefigure for females saw a rise and reached a peak at 40%. Furthermore, figures for doctors born overseas and born in Australia show certain parallels at 50% in the final year.