How many veterinarians are there in the world?

Answer 1

There are probably a couple dozen different ways you can divide veterinary medicine up. The most common is to differentiate private practice (small animal, large animal, mixed, equine) from industry, research, academia, military, government and other. However, private practice can be divided further into small animal exclusive, small animal predominant, mixed, large animal predominant, large animal exclusive, equine, avian, exotic and the various board-certified specialties. The same is true for non-practice veterinary careers - you can continue to subdivide until you get a fairly homogenous group, but the number of individuals in the group will be pretty small.

Answer 2

There are many different types of veterinarians, ranging from private practitioners who specialize in one species to public health veterinarians who inspect meat and poultry carcasses. To give you a sampling of the various types of veterinarians, here are 11 different career paths veterinarians can take:

1. Small animal exclusive private practice

2. Large animal exclusive private practice

3. Mixed animal private practice

4. Equine exclusive private practice

5. Veterinary researcher

6. Active duty military veterinarian

7. Public health veterinarian; government employee

8. Board-certified veterinary specialist (there are many specialities)

9. Veterinary professor

10. Zoologic veterinarian/wildlife veterinarian/marine veterinarian

11. Industry veterinarian; employed by private industry such as pharmaceutical companies

Answer 3

* When i am picking my profession i am going to choose a small animal vet (a vet that takes care of normal house pets). But, one could be a large animal vet who works with farm animals, a zoo vet who works at a zoo, an exotic animal vet who works with lizards and rare birds, a marine vet who works under the water studying and helping ocean life, an aquarium vet, or possibly a Field vet who goes to different places and works out in the wild instead of being in an office. But, these are only a few of the vets you or someone else could Be :) ^_^

Answer 4

There are many types of vets theres vets that will take any pets theres vets that will onley take cats and dogs theres vets that will take wild animals look on Google map to see what vet you need and see how close it is to you.

Answer 5

There are many different veterinary specialties (which require additional training after vet school to become board certified in). Some of the more common ones include small animal internal medicine, small animal surgery, dentistry, dermatology, ophthalmology, oncology, large animal medicine, equine surgery, and radiology. Less popular but still vitally needed specialties include veterinary microbiology, lab animal medicine, pathlogy (anatomic and clinical), animal behavior and preventive medicine.

Answer 6

In the United States in 2012 there were at least 100,000 active and retired veterinarians. Extrapolating from this, there is probably somewhere around 3-4 million veterinarians in the world.

Answer 7

In the United States alone there are over 100,000 actively practicing veterinarians; the number around the world is easily over 1,000,000.