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Medical Doctors (MD, Physicians)

During the 2023-24 fiscal year, there were 60,982 medical doctors (MD) with actives licenses in Florida, which is a rate of 264.5 doctors per 100,000 population. Amongst those doctors, some of the specialties included 10,992 internal medicine doctors, 5,070 pediatricians, 4,349 family practice physicians, and 2,007 obstetrician gynecologists (OB-GYN). Looking at numbers of licensed health professionals helps identify the availability of care in a specific area.

What's New

Six new indicators on alcohol use, dependency, and/or abuse were added to CHARTS.
2024 hospitalization and emergency department visit data were released.
2024 data on overdoses, prescriptions, EMS responses, and poison information network calls were released in the Substance Use Dashboard.
2017-2021 5-year period data within the Birth Defects Profile was released.
2025 homeless estimate was released.
2023-24 data on County Health Department expenditures and full time employees were released.
2023 food insecurity and child food insecurity estimates were released.

Estimated Births

*Since Jan 01,

136885.258741259

Did You Know?

Incidence refers to the number of cases during the reporting period. In CHARTS, some indicators about incidence are called cases or diagnoses.
Most CHARTS reports can be exported to Excel. Look for the Excel icon in the CHARTS report pages.
ZIP code and census-tract data are available through CHARTS’ data queries and the Community Dashboard.