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Table 1 Geographic properties of the Australian Standard Geographical Classification - Remoteness Area scale (ASGC-RA)[7, 18]

From: Rural outreach by specialist doctors in Australia: a national cross-sectional study of supply and distribution

ASGC-RA index

Label

Australia’s population (%)

Australia’s area %

Density (persons per km2)

1

Major city

68.6%

0.3%

780

2

Inner regional

19.7%

3.8%

16.2

3

Outer regional

9.4%

12.5%

2.4

4

Remote

1.5%

14.6%

0.3

5

Very remote

0.8%

68.7%

0.04