This map found at joeydevilla.com shows the inhabitant to doctor ratio around the world. Smaller writing indicates a smaller ratio, and green also represents a higher number of doctors in proportion with the inhabitants. Yellow means more people per physician, and red expresses large numbers of people to one doctor. The colors reflect the GDP map, with developed countries having more access to medical care. This is scary because most of these countries have high populations and are are plagued by diseases like malaria, yellow fever and HIV. One thing that is surprising about this map is that the distributions are not extremely different, with the exception of Africa. Though Africa and South America are both small on the GDP map, the number of doctors per inhabitant in Africa is much less. One interesting things about this map is that many of the countries that were very small in the GDP map are not too far behind the developed world in numbers of inhabitants per citizen.
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