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List of Registered Medical Practitioners - statistics

Registration statistics

This page contains statistical information about doctors on the List of Registered Medical Practitioners (LRMP) and the General Practitioners Register (GPR). It is updated on a monthly basis.

The LRMP contains details of doctors registered to practise medicine in the United Kingdom. The GPR contains a list of doctors who are registered to practise as General Practitioners in the United Kingdom.

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Registered medical practitioners

GP Non-GP Total doctors  %
Gender No of doctors % No of doctors %
Man 32,023 13.8% 104,438 45.1%  136,461 58.9%
Woman 26,347 11.4% 68,707 29.7% 95,054 41.1%
Grand total 58,370 25.2% 173,145 74.8% 231,515 100.0%

Doctors in the UK - GPs and non-GPs

number of doctors by gender and GP status

Doctors by age group

Age group Number of doctors %
<= 25 9,281 4.01%
26 - 35

68,280

 29.49%
36 - 45 61,438 26.54%
46 - 55 30,166 13.03%
56 - 65 13,813 5.97%
> 65 8,750 3.78%
No Birth Date 39,787 17.19%
Grand total 231,515 100.00%

number of doctors by age

Top 20 countries of qualification

PMQ country Number of doctors Percentage
United Kingdom 145,313 62.80%
India 25,647 11.10%
Pakistan 7,619 3.30%
South Africa 6,424 2.80%
Ireland 4,071 1.80%
Germany 3,428 1.50%
Nigeria 3,415 1.50%
Egypt 2,847 1.20%
Sri Lanka 2,349 1.00%
Iraq 2,227 1.00%
Australia 2,071 0.90%
Poland 1,910 0.80%
Italy 1,876 0.80%
Greece 1,710 0.70%
Hungary  1,098 0.50%
Spain 1,054 0.50%
Romania 1,048 0.40%
Sudan 970 0.40%
Jamaica 899 0.40%
Czech Republic 802 0.30%
Grand Total 216,778 93.70%

Top 20 specialties

Specialty Rank Number of doctors registered
Anaesthetics 1 8,969
General (internal) medicine 2 7,507
General psychiatry 3 4,905
Paediatrics 4 4,244
Clinical radiology 5 4,050
General surgery 6 3,642
Obstetrics and gynaecology 7 3,290
Trauma and orthopaedic surgery 8 3,236
Histopathology 9 1,893
Opthalmology 10 1,855
Cardiology   11 1,577
Geriatrics 12 1,473
Public health medicine 13  1,461
Respiratory medicine 14 1,298
Child and adolescent psychiatry 15 1,209
Haematology 16  1,190
Old age psychiatry 17 1,156
Gastro-enterology 18  1,153
Endocrinology and diabetes 19 1,112
Otolaryngology 20 1,089

Total number of registered doctors by ethnicity level 1 and 2

 Ethnic Origin Ethnic Origin - Level 2 Number of Registered Doctors Percentage
 Asian or Asian British Any other Asian background 6,989 3.00%
Bangladeshi 1,134 0.50%
Indian 27,502 11.90%
Pakistani 7,468 3.20% 
Unspecified 48 0.00%
 Black or Black British African 4,947 2.10%
Any other Black background 525 0.20%
Caribbean 477 0.20%
Unspecified 23 0.00%
 Mixed Any other mixed background 1,375 0.60%
Unspecified 1 0.00%
White and Asian 969 0.40%
White and Black African 702 0.30%
White and Black Caribbean 182 0.10%
 Not stated Not stated 1,213 0.50%
 Other Ethnic Groups Any other ethnic group 4,512 1.90%
Chinese 4,512 1.50%
Unspecified 38 0.00%
 Unspecified Unspecified 57,949 25.00%
 White Any other White background 18,610 8.00%
British 89,050 38.50%
Irish 4,095 1.80%
Unspecified 154 0.10% 
 Grand Total 231,515 100.00%