The chart below shows the number of doctors practicing in Australia over a 20-year period, including their gender and country of origin.

1The table illustrates the number of doctors practicing in Australia, and the bar chart illustrates their gender and country of origin over a 20-year period.

Overall, the number of doctors 2increasedwas increasing from 1986 to 2006. Furthermore,the ratio of doctors' gender remained stable.3while the proportion based on nationality showed slight fluctuationsBy contrast, their nationalities fluctuated during the period.

In 1986, there were only 300,000 5doctorsdoctros in Australia. 6This figure more than doubledIt doubled after a decade, standing at 640,000 doctors in 1996. Moreover, it continued to increase sharply, finally 7reaching 800,000reaching a peak of 800,000 doctors in 2006, which was approximately three times as many as the number in 1986.

Furthermore, the ratio of doctors' gender was stable. Generally, the different genders remained relatively stable at around 50% each. In 1986 and 2006, 8the proportion of male doctors was higher than that of female doctorsthe male was higher than the female, 9whereas female doctors outnumbered males by about 10 percentage points (55% vs 45%) in 1996while the female was nearly 10 percentage points higher than the male in 1996. 10Regarding country of origin,Besides, the nationality of the doctors experienced 11a noticeable fluctuationa big fluctuate. 12The proportion of Australian doctors wasAustralian doctors was 20 percentage points higher 13than that of doctors from other countriesthan the others in 1986. 14In contrast, they were the same proportion in 1996. After a decade, the Australian doctors increased to 60% again, 15thetha same as its percentage in 1986.