Health profession demographic snapshot

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A health profession demographic analysis for occupational therapists has been carried out by Ahpra’s Research, Evaluation and Insights team.

The health profession demographic snapshot report below was collated using:

registration data (available from Ahpra’s annual reports)
Australian Bureau of Statistics, state and territory population data
Commonwealth Department of Health’s Health Workforce Data tool.

To view the snapshot, click below:

Occupational therapists - a snapshot as at 30 June 2023 (519 KB,PDF)
Occupational therapists - a snapshot as at 30 June 2022 (448 KB,PDF)
Occupational therapists - a snapshot as at 30 June 2020 (215 KB,PDF)

Demographic analysis - occupational therapists 2015-2020

Ahpra’s Research, Evaluation and Insights team has analysed our workforce across the five years from 2015-2020.

The full report is available here: Occupational therapy - workforce analysis (327 KB,PDF)

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