5,779 in the year 2020 (Conselho Federal de Medicina, 2020).

References:

Conselho Federal de Medicina. (2020). Demografia Médica no Brasil. https://www.fm.usp.br/fmusp/conteudo/DemografiaMedica2020_9DEZ.pdf

There are 118 specialists registered under neurology out of 6797 registered medical practitioners in the Specialist Register in 2016 (The Medical Council of Hong Kong, 2016).

References:

The Medical Council of Hong Kong. (2016). Annual Report 2016. Retrieved from https://www.mchk.org.hk/files/annual/files/2016/MCAR_2016_e.pdf

As of January 2015, there were 1312 neurologists that were members of the Indian Academy of Neurology and 2500 neurologists that were members of the Neurological Society of India (Ganapathy, 2015).

References:

Ganapathy, K. (2015). Distribution of neurologists and neurosurgeons in India and its relevance to the adoption of telemedicine. Neurology India, 63(2), 142. https://doi.org/10.4103/0028-3886.156274

Across all provinces, there are 2,473 neurologists and 609 neurosurgeons (Badan PPSDM Kesehatan Kementerian Kesehatan Republik Indonesia, n.d.).

References:

Badan PPSDM Kesehatan Kementerian Kesehatan Republik Indonesia. (n.d.). Data SDM Kesehatan yang didayagunakan di Fasilitas Pelayanan Kesehatan (Fasyankes) di Indonesia. http://bppsdmk.kemkes.go.id/info_sdmk/info/

There are a total of 29 neurologists in Kenya, the majority of whom are located in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital (Medpages, 2019).

References:

Medpages. (2019). Neurologists in Kenya. https://www.medpages.info/sf/index.php?page=listing&servicecode=172&countryid=23&regioncode=&subregioncode=

No rate has been estimated on the number of Neurologists.

Table 48: Number of medical doctors, neurologists, and geriatricians in NZ

References:

Cheung G., Sims A., Copeland B., Collins C., Bharathan S. (2018). The third New Zealand Psychiatry of Old Age services and workforce survey. Australas Psychiatry. 26(4):405-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/1039856218765891.

New Zealand Parliament. (n.d.). Indicator 34: Specially trained physicians. Available from: https://oag.parliament.nz/2013/ageing/our-ageing-population-indicators/indicator-34.

Ranta, A., Tiwari, P., Mottershead, J., Abernethy, D., Simpson, M., Brickell, K., et al. (2015). New Zealand’s neurologist workforce: a pragmatic analysis of demand, supply, and future projections. NZ Med J. 128(1419):35-44. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26365844/.

There was no information found on the number of neurologists registered in South Africa as specialist categories are merged under the category “medical specialists” in the Department of Health (DOH), and furthermore categorised broadly under “medical practitioner” with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).