10 States With the Lowest Number of Primary Care Physicians

Wyoming had the lowest number of professionally active primary care physicians in 2012, according to State Health Facts, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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There were a total of 397,130 primary care physicians in the United States in 2012.

The ten states with the lowest number of primary care physicians, according to the report, were:

1. Wyoming — 543    
2. North Dakota — 874    
3. Alaska — 870    
4. South Dakota — 962    
5. Vermont — 972    
6. Montana — 1,010    
7. Delaware — 1,267    
8. Idaho — 1,406    
9. Hawaii — 1,730    
10. New Hampshire — 1,754

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