All data have an effective date of 2001.
	US			AL			FL			GA			MS			TN			KY			NC			SC
	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro
Physicians	625,395	551,203	74,192	7,685	6,620	1,065	36,104	34,637	1,467	15,071	12,030	3,041	4,352	2,397	1,955	11,817	9,991	1,826	7,478	4,951	2,527	15,779	12,478	3,301	7,534	6,095	1,439
Primary Care Physicians	256,906	217,518	39,388	3,300	2,623	677	14,073	13,392	681	6,433	4,858	1,575	1,854	820	1,034	4,864	3,807	1,057	3,118	1,808	1,310	6,517	4,862	1,655	3,103	2,342	761
Nurse Practitioners	70,135	59,966	10,169	918	733	185	6,474	6,149	325	1,903	1,416	487	715	292	423	1,664	1,310	354	891	508	383	1,638	1,217	421	666	507	159
Physician Assistants	42,702	35,462	7,240	249	225	24	2,334	2,203	131	1,410	1,087	323	37	23	14	537	430	107	582	369	213	2,112	1,622	490	348	295	53
Primary Care Physician Assistants	11,816	8,611	3,205	37	28	9	495	441	54	373	261	112	11	6	5	150	106	44	143	70	73	673	471	202	93	80	13
Source:  Physician, primary care physician and physician assistant data are from the Application Submissions and Processing System (ASAPS) administered by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). NP data are from the Area Resource File.
Physician data include MDs and DOs.  Physician data are for clinically active practitioners. Data exclude residents and federal physicians.  NHSC physicians are included.
Metro/non-metro definitions based on Office of Management and Budget 1999 definitions.  Population data are estimates from the 2001 Census
Primary care physicians/physician assistants are those practitioners with a specialty in internal medicine, pediatrics, family practice, general practice or obstetrics and gynecology.
	US			AL			FL			GA			MS			TN			KY			NC			SC
	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro
Population	284,796,887	230,041,144	54,755,743	4,464,356	3,129,654	1,334,702	16,396,515	15,230,590	1,165,925	8,383,915	5,829,563	2,554,352	2,858,029	1,039,331	1,818,698	5,740,021	3,897,418	1,842,603	4,065,556	1,985,405	2,080,151	8,186,268	5,545,841	2,640,427	4,063,011	2,848,490	1,214,521
Provider to Population Ratios
	US			AL			FL			GA			MS			TN			KY			NC			SC
	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro	Total	Metro	Non- Metro
Physicians per 10,000 population	21.96	23.96	13.55	17.21	21.15	7.98	22.02	22.74	12.58	17.98	20.64	11.91	15.23	23.06	10.75	20.59	25.63	9.91	18.39	24.94	12.15	19.27	22.50	12.50	18.54	21.40	11.85
Primary Care Physicians per 10,000 population	9.02	9.46	7.19	7.39	8.38	5.07	8.58	8.79	5.84	7.67	8.33	6.17	6.49	7.89	5.69	8.47	9.77	5.74	7.67	9.11	6.30	7.96	8.77	6.27	7.64	8.22	6.27
Nurse Practitioners per 10,000 population	2.46	2.61	1.86	2.06	2.34	1.39	3.95	4.04	2.79	2.27	2.43	1.91	2.50	2.81	2.33	2.90	3.36	1.92	2.19	2.56	1.84	2.00	2.19	1.59	1.64	1.78	1.31
Physician Assistants per 10,000 population	1.50	1.54	1.32	0.56	0.72	0.18	1.42	1.45	1.12	1.68	1.86	1.26	0.13	0.22	0.08	0.94	1.10	0.58	1.43	1.86	1.02	2.58	2.92	1.86	0.86	1.04	0.44
Primary Care Physician Assistants per 10,000 pop	0.41	0.37	0.59	0.08	0.09	0.07	0.30	0.29	0.46	0.44	0.45	0.44	0.04	0.06	0.03	0.26	0.27	0.24	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.82	0.85	0.77	0.23	0.28	0.11
Data Underlying Graphs
Physicians
	FL	US	TN	NC	SC	KY	GA	AL	MS
Physicians per 10,000 pop	22.02	21.96	20.59	19.27	18.54	18.39	17.98	17.21	15.23
	TN	KY	US	MS	FL	NC	SC	AL	GA
Metropolitan	25.63	24.94	23.96	23.06	22.74	22.50	21.40	21.15	20.64
Nonmetropolitan	9.91	12.15	13.55	10.75	12.58	12.5	11.85	7.98	11.91
	AL	TN	MS	KY	FL	SC	NC	US	GA
Ratio of physicians metro to nonmetro	2.7	2.6	2.1	2.1	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.7
Primary Care Physicians
	US	FL	TN	NC	GA	KY	SC	AL	MS
Primary Care Physicians per 10,000 pop	9.02	8.58	8.47	7.96	7.67	7.67	7.64	7.39	6.49
	TN	US	FL	AL	GA	MS	KY	NC	SC
Metropolitan	9.77	9.46	8.79	8.38	8.33	7.89	9.11	8.77	8.22
Nonmetropolitan	5.74	7.19	5.84	5.07	6.17	5.69	6.3	6.27	6.27
	TN	AL	FL	KY	NC	MS	GA	US	SC
Ratio of PC physicians metro to nonmetro	1.7	1.7	1.5	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.3	1.3
Nurse Practitioners
	FL	TN	MS	US	GA	KY	AL	NC	SC
Nurse Practitioners	3.95	2.90	2.50	2.46	2.27	2.19	2.06	2	1.64
	FL	TN	MS	US	KY	GA	AL	NC	SC
Metropolitan	4.04	3.36	2.81	2.61	2.56	2.43	2.34	2.19	1.78
Nonmetropolitan	2.79	1.92	2.33	1.86	1.84	1.91	1.39	1.59	1.31
	TN	AL	FL	US	KY	NC	SC	GA	MS
Ratio of NPs metro to nonmetro	1.7	1.7	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.3	1.2
Physician Assistants
	NC	GA	US	KY	FL	TN	SC	AL	MS
Physician Assistants	2.58	1.68	1.50	1.43	1.42	0.94	0.86	0.56	0.13
	NC	GA	KY	US	FL	TN	SC	AL	MS
Metropolitan	2.92	1.86	1.86	1.54	1.45	1.10	1.04	0.72	0.22
Nonmetropolitan	1.86	1.26	1.02	1.32	1.12	0.58	0.44	0.18	0.08
	AL	MS	SC	TN	KY	NC	GA	FL	US
Ratio of PAs metro to nonmetro	4.0	2.9	2.4	1.9	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.3	1.2
Use of non-physician providers
	FL	TN	MS	US	GA	KY	AL	NC	SC
NPs per 10,000 pop	3.9	2.9	2.5	2.5	2.3	2.2	2.1	2.0	1.6
PAs per 10,000 pop	1.4	0.9	0.1	1.5	1.7	1.4	0.6	2.6	0.9
Ratio of physician assistants and nurse practitioners to 100 physicians
	US	AL	FL	GA	MS	TN	KY	NC	SC
Ratio of NPs per 100 physicians	11.21	11.95	17.93	12.63	16.43	14.08	11.91	10.38	8.84
Ratio of PAs per 100 physicians	6.83	3.24	6.46	9.36	0.85	4.54	7.78	13.38	4.62
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Ratio of physician assistants and nurse practitioners to 100 physicians
	FL	MS	TN	GA	AL	KY	US	NC	SC
Ratio of NPs per 100 physicians	17.9	16.4	14.1	12.6	11.9	11.9	11.2	10.4	8.8
	NC	GA	KY	US	FL	SC	TN	AL	MS
Ratio of PAs per 100 physicians	13.4	9.4	7.8	6.8	6.5	4.6	4.5	3.2	0.9
Metropolitan Areas
	US	AL	FL	GA	MS	TN	KY	NC	SC
Ratio of NPs per 100 physicians in metro	10.9	11.1	17.8	11.8	12.2	13.1	10.3	9.8	8.3
Ratio of PAs per 100 physicians in metro	6.4	3.4	6.4	9.0	1.0	4.3	7.5	13.0	4.8
Nonmetropolitan Areas
	US	AL	FL	GA	MS	TN	KY	NC	SC
Ratio of NPs per 100 physicians in nonmetro	13.7	17.4	22.2	16.0	21.6	19.4	15.2	12.8	11.0
Ratio of PAs per 100 physicians in nonmetro	9.8	2.3	8.9	10.6	0.7	5.9	8.4	14.8	3.7
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Ratio of NPs to 100 physicians in metro vs. nonmetro areas
	MS	AL	TN	KY	FL	GA	NC	US	SC
NPs per 100 physicians in metro	12.2	11.1	13.1	10.3	17.8	11.8	9.8	10.9	8.3
NPs per 100 physicians in nonmetro	21.6	17.4	19.4	15.2	22.2	16.0	12.8	13.7	11.0
Nonmetro-metro	9.5	6.3	6.3	4.9	4.4	4.2	3.0	2.8	2.7
Ratio of PAs to 100 physicians in metro vs. nonmetro areas
	US	FL	NC	GA	TN	KY	MS	AL	SC
PAs per 100 physicians in metro	6.4	6.4	13.0	9.0	4.3	7.5	1.0	3.4	4.8
PAs per 100 physicians in nonmetro	9.8	8.9	14.8	10.6	5.9	8.4	0.7	2.3	3.7
Nonmetro-metro	3.3	2.6	1.8	1.6	1.6	1.0	-0.2	-1.1	-1.2