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As of January 1, 2025, 118,957 doctors were women, against 118,257 male counterparts. Since 2012, the number of doctors has increased by 9.9%.
Half of doctors practicing in France are now women, according to data from the Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES) on the demography of practitioners published on Monday. As of January 1, 2025, of the 237,214 doctors in activity (including 100,000 generalists), the number of women (118,957) exceeded their male counterparts for the first time (118,257), according to these results.
At the beginning of 2024, the DREES had counted 117,781 Men doctors and 115,635 women doctors. The profession remains essentially female (97%) among midwives but also in podiatrist pedicures while it “Continue to rejuvenate and feminize” In dental surgeons, underlines the DREES.
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Number of general practitioners
In early 2025, this institution identified 47,600 dentists, 25,800 midwives and 14,400 in activity. The number of general practitioners went upwards in 2025 (+1% compared to 2024) and excluding general medicine, the increase is 2.1%.
Since January 1, 2012, the number of doctors has increased by 9.9%, carried both per “A growing workforce of graduate doctors abroad” and by “Entry into activity” Generations having benefited from the marked increase in the numerus clausus between 2000 and 2020, underlines the DREES. Doctors mainly have a liberal activity, but more and more often combined with a salaried activity.