South Korean cities with the most doctors

namgu, South Korea has the highest doctors per 1,000 residents of the 30 cities compared: 6.3 per 1,000 (KOSIS e-RegionIndex doctors per 1000, 2024-12-31).

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South Korean municipalities ranked by official doctors per 1,000 residents; the source-native unit is retained.

Items compared: 30
Countries represented: 1
Last checked: 2026-07-22

Source-backed answers

Compare each answer with its unit and checked date; the complete source ledger is below.

Showing all 30 rows

Original rank	City or place			Source and scope
1	namgu, South Korea	6.3 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
2	서대문구, South Korea	6 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
3	donggu, South Korea	5.7 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
4	부산진구, South Korea	5.5 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
5	동대문구, South Korea	5 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
6	영등포구, South Korea	5 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
7	송파구, South Korea	4.9 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
8	junggu, South Korea	4.7 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
9	seogu, South Korea	4.7 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
10	성남시, South Korea	4.7 per 1,000	2026-07-22	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
11	강동구, South Korea	4.4 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
12	수영구, South Korea	4.2 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
13	전주시, South Korea	4.1 per 1,000	2026-07-22	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
14	namgu, South Korea	4 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
15	구리시, South Korea	3.8 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
16	광명시, South Korea	3.7 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
17	동래구, South Korea	3.7 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
18	해운대구, South Korea	3.7 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
19	강릉시, South Korea	3.6 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
20	광진구, South Korea	3.6 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
21	구로구, South Korea	3.6 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
22	달서구, South Korea	3.6 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
23	동작구, South Korea	3.6 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
24	gangseogu, South Korea	3.5 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
25	남동구, South Korea	3.5 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
26	수성구, South Korea	3.5 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
27	마포구, South Korea	3.4 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
28	성동구, South Korea	3.4 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
29	수원시, South Korea	3.4 per 1,000	2026-07-22	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31
30	연제구, South Korea	3.4 per 1,000	2026-07-21	Source Scope: city · Period: 2024-12-31

What the numbers say

namgu, South Korea leads at 6.3 per 1,000.
연제구, South Korea sits at the other end with 3.4 per 1,000.
The middle of this ranking is 3.8 per 1,000, across 30 places that publish the metric.
The spread between first and last is 2.9 per 1,000.

Quick answer

What does South Korean cities with the most doctors show?

namgu, South Korea has the highest doctors per 1,000 residents of the 30 cities compared: 6.3 per 1,000 (KOSIS e-RegionIndex doctors per 1000, 2024-12-31).

How this list is built

Every row is a published doctors per 1,000 residents observation measured in per 1,000, ranked highest first. The values were observed in 2024. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 20,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.

Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.

Rows: 30 places
Geographic grain: city
Observation period: 2024-12-31
Last checked: 2026-07-22
With an official source link: 30 of 30

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). South Korean cities with the most doctors [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 6beb0d59ceca5719de8e79a37df20337]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/south-korea-most-doctors/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {South Korean cities with the most doctors},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {6beb0d59ceca5719de8e79a37df20337},
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}

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Sources

KOSIS e-RegionIndex doctors per 1000Statistics Korea (KOSIS) · Checked 2026-07-21