Public service veterinarians worldwide: a quantitative analysis
Kouba, V.(Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy))E-mail:www.cbox.cz/vaclavkouba
The analysis begins with a time series of reported number of public service veterinarians starting in 1983 (65,930). In 2003 the number reached 209,888 representing 27.96% of all reported veterinarians in the world. Average ratio private/public veterinarians was 1.7850. Global average values per public service veterinarian in 2000 were as follows: 31,522 inhabitants, 13,368 people depending for their livelihood on agriculture and 6,867 people economically active in agriculture. The analysis is complemented by the examples of the countries with the highest number of public service veterinarians, with the highest ratio private/public veterinarians and with the highest average values of animal export per public service veterinarian.
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