France, Aug. 3 -- Half of the doctors practicing in France are women and more than half are GPs. This is toaccording to data from France's national statistics agency published this week.

The Directorate for Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics(DREES) found that between the beginning of 2012 and the beginning of 2025, the number of doctors overall increased by 9.9 percent.

This has been especially noticeable in the last two years which saw a rise of 1.4 percent between 1 January 2023 and 2024 and 1.6 percent between 1 January 2024 and 2025.

Drees says that as of January this year, 50 percent of doctors arewomen, a significant rise from 41 percent in 2012.

Of the 237,214 doctors in practice in France (including 100,000 general p...