Global urology workforce and meetings

Urology Workforce Atlas

Urologists per country, the urologist to population ratio, the reach of national and regional societies, and the urology meetings held since 2000 with where they took place. Every figure carries its source, its counting basis, and its verification status.

Verification

Workforce

Colour a country by its urologist density or count, or by the reach of a society. Click a country for its sources.

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Meetings

Urology congresses, courses and section meetings since 2000, placed at their host city. Filled markers are upcoming, hollow markers past, a dark ring marks one Lee attended or has booked. Click a bar in the timeline to show one year.

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Society membership beside the counted workforce

Twelve societies, from the global to the subregional, with what each publishes about its own size. A society roll and a registry count measure different things. Rolls include trainees, retirees, allied professionals, and members abroad; registries count licensed specialists. The table pairs the two where both were found, with the ratio left uninterpreted where the categories do not match.

Society roll against the independent count, both axes logarithmic. The dashed line is parity: a country on it has as many society members as counted urologists. Points above it have rolls larger than the count, which happens when the roll includes people who are not practising urologists or when the count is a narrower category such as consultants.

Regional patterns the country table cannot show

Some of the strongest published figures are regional or qualitative rather than national. They are listed here rather than forced onto the map.

How to read this atlas

Counting basis

Denominators

Population is the World Bank total population series (SP.POP.TOTL) for the year of the count, or 2024 where the source gave no year. Taiwan has no World Bank row. Its ratio uses the Ministry of the Interior year-end 2024 population as reported in Taipei Times secondary coverage. That population figure comes from a search snippet; the page has not been opened. A count from 2015 divided by the 2015 population is a 2015 ratio, not a current one. Ratios stated by the source itself are shown separately in each country's detail.

Per 100,000 is the convention in the AUA, BAUS, and CNOM material; per million is the convention in the Chinese census and much of the African literature. Both are offered.

Why counts are not comparable

A German count of active specialists includes office-based urologists who do not operate. A UK count of substantive consultants excludes 500 SAS and trust-grade urologists who do. A society roll can exceed the number of urologists in the country. Read the basis chip before comparing two countries. The map starts with Count and All figures, mixed bases. Choose Registry or census only to limit the map and ranking to those sources. Even registry and census definitions differ.

Excluded figures

    Still missing

      Conference layer

      Verification

      All figures with sources

      The full table behind the map. Sort by clicking a column heading.