Virgin Islands (US) Physicians

The United States Virgin Islands recorded 1.65 physicians per 1,000 people in the latest World Bank observation for 1995, a level that also appeared in the earliest available datum for 1990, making both the all‑time peak and trough identical across the two‑year coverage window. This figure placed the territory 54th globally, marginally below Mexico’s 1.67 physicians per 1,000 and slightly above the Dominican Republic’s 1.50, while the Cayman Islands registered a higher 1.70. The stability of the indicator suggests that the health‑care workforce has not expanded or contracted significantly during the early 1990s, a period when many small island economies were grappling with limited fiscal capacity and reliance on external medical services. Given the absence of growth in physician density, future improvements are likely to depend on targeted policy measures such as incentives for medical professionals, investment in training facilities, or partnerships with neighboring jurisdictions to raise the ratio and enhance service accessibility.