Overview of the hosting country’s animal agriculture
A few key-points in 2018 about the vet demography:
- 18,341 vets
- Mean age = 42.30 years
- 11,566 vets in practices
- 6,775 vets as employees
- 14,934 vets involved in companion animals medicine
- 6,782 vets involved in livestock medicine
- 2,646 vets involved in equine medicine
- 246 specialists
- 1,520 vets in governmental institutions (Army, Ministry of Agriculture, …)
- Including 469 professors and lecturers in veterinary faculties
- 4 veterinary faculties (Maisons-Alfort, Lyon, Nantes & Toulouse)
- 93 vets involved in laboratory diagnostic