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.
As of 2010, there are upwards of 120,000 licensed veterinarians in the United States alone. In the world, I would imagine at least 1,000,000 practicing veterinarians.
There are veterinarians in every country in the world.
Recent studies show that there are about72,720 veterinarians in America.
Veterinarians are trained at accredited colleges of veterinary medicine. There are dozens of these schools around the world.
No, it is not a profession that normally requires traveling the world.
In the United States as of 2011 there were approximately 100,000 veterinarians actively working in the industry.
In the United States, yes, there are many more small animal veterinarians than large animal veterinarians. However, this proportion changes depending upon the geographic region you are talking about, and in many developing countries there are many more large animal veterinarians than small animal veterinarians.
In the United States alone, approximately 2,000 new veterinarians graduated in 2010.
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Some veterinarians are, particularly by animal abuse or cruelty cases. However, I wouldn't say that every veterinarian is disturbed by the general status of the world at large - veterinarians are a heterogenous group of individuals who just happen to all share a common profession.
In the United States, there are many more females becoming veterinarians than there are males.