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Registered nurses density (nursing and midwifery personnel)

Name: Registered nurses density (nursing and midwifery personnel)
Creator: World Health Organization (WHO) — Global Health Observatory (GHO)
Keywords: statistic-of-the-day, ai-generated, nurses, midwives, health workforce, health system capacity, maternal health, primary care, SDG 3, human resources for health

Number of nursing and midwifery personnel per 10,000 people by country (latest available, mostly 2019–2023), from WHO’s Global Health Observatory.

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) — Global Health Observatory (GHO)•174 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

0.0per 10,000 people

Countries Covered

174

with available data

Highest

Bulgaria

0.0per 10,000 people

Lowest

Brunei Darussalam

0.0per 10,000 people

Top 5 Countries

1Bulgaria0.0per 10,000 people

2Myanmar0.0per 10,000 people

3Burundi0.0per 10,000 people

4Belarus0.0per 10,000 people

5Cambodia0.0per 10,000 people

By Region

Europe0.0per 10,000 people(32 countries)

Other0.0per 10,000 people(95 countries)

North America0.0per 10,000 people(4 countries)

Asia0.0per 10,000 people(25 countries)

South America0.0per 10,000 people(7 countries)

Key Findings

•Nurse/midwife availability differs by orders of magnitude across countries, reflecting major gaps in health-system capacity.
•High nurse density is strongly associated with broader service coverage (primary care, maternal/newborn, chronic disease management).
•Many low- and middle-income countries face shortages driven by limited training capacity and international recruitment pressures.
•Even where headcounts are high, maldistribution (urban vs rural) can limit effective access to care.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0per 10,000 people)High (0.0per 10,000 people)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 0.0per 10,000 people)

Europe (32)

Other (95)

North America (4)

Asia (25)

South America (7)

Africa (9)

Oceania (2)

About This Statistic

This statistic measures the availability of nursing and midwifery personnel relative to population size, expressed as the number of registered nurses and midwives per 10,000 people. It’s a widely used indicator of health-system capacity because nurses and midwives deliver much of frontline care—especially maternal, newborn, primary, and chronic-disease services.

Values vary dramatically across countries due to differences in training capacity, health financing, migration/brain drain, and how health workers are counted (licenced vs. practising vs. professionally active). The WHO Global Health Observatory compiles these figures from national administrative sources and standardized country reporting; the “year” differs by country because it reflects the latest data each country has reported in the 2019–2023 window (with some countries slightly outside that range if that is their latest officially reported value).

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Bulgaria	0.0per 10,000 people
2	Myanmar	0.0per 10,000 people
3	Burundi	0.0per 10,000 people
4	Belarus	0.0per 10,000 people
5	Cambodia	0.0per 10,000 people
6	Cameroon	0.0per 10,000 people
7	Canada	0.0per 10,000 people
8	Cape Verde	0.0per 10,000 people
9	Cayman Islands	0.0per 10,000 people
10	Central African Republic	0.0per 10,000 people
11	Sri Lanka	0.0per 10,000 people
12	Chad	0.0per 10,000 people
13	Chile	0.0per 10,000 people
14	People's Republic of China	0.0per 10,000 people
15	Colombia	0.0per 10,000 people
16	Comoros	0.0per 10,000 people
17	Republic of the Congo	0.0per 10,000 people
18	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.0per 10,000 people
19	Costa Rica	0.0per 10,000 people
20	Croatia	0.0per 10,000 people
21	Cuba	0.0per 10,000 people
22	Cyprus	0.0per 10,000 people
23	Czech Republic	0.0per 10,000 people
24	Benin	0.0per 10,000 people
25	Denmark	0.0per 10,000 people
26	Dominican Republic	0.0per 10,000 people
27	Ecuador	0.0per 10,000 people
28	El Salvador	0.0per 10,000 people
29	Equatorial Guinea	0.0per 10,000 people
30	Ethiopia	0.0per 10,000 people
31	Eritrea	0.0per 10,000 people
32	Estonia	0.0per 10,000 people
33	Faroe Islands	0.0per 10,000 people
34	Fiji	0.0per 10,000 people
35	Finland	0.0per 10,000 people
36	France	0.0per 10,000 people
37	Djibouti	0.0per 10,000 people
38	Gabon	0.0per 10,000 people
39	Georgia	0.0per 10,000 people
40	Republic of The Gambia	0.0per 10,000 people
41	Germany	0.0per 10,000 people
42	Ghana	0.0per 10,000 people
43	Greece	0.0per 10,000 people
44	Guatemala	0.0per 10,000 people
45	Guinea	0.0per 10,000 people
46	Guyana	0.0per 10,000 people
47	Haiti	0.0per 10,000 people
48	Honduras	0.0per 10,000 people
49	Hungary	0.0per 10,000 people
50	Iceland	0.0per 10,000 people
51	India	0.0per 10,000 people
52	Indonesia	0.0per 10,000 people
53	Islamic Republic of Iran	0.0per 10,000 people
54	Iraq	0.0per 10,000 people
55	Ireland	0.0per 10,000 people
56	Israel	0.0per 10,000 people
57	Italy	0.0per 10,000 people
58	Cote d'Ivoire	0.0per 10,000 people
59	Jamaica	0.0per 10,000 people
60	Japan	0.0per 10,000 people
61	Kazakhstan	0.0per 10,000 people
62	Jordan	0.0per 10,000 people
63	Kenya	0.0per 10,000 people
64	North Korea	0.0per 10,000 people
65	South Korea	0.0per 10,000 people
66	Kuwait	0.0per 10,000 people
67	Kyrgyzstan	0.0per 10,000 people
68	Lao People's Democratic Republic	0.0per 10,000 people
69	Lebanon	0.0per 10,000 people
70	Lesotho	0.0per 10,000 people
71	Latvia	0.0per 10,000 people
72	Liberia	0.0per 10,000 people
73	Libya	0.0per 10,000 people
74	Lithuania	0.0per 10,000 people
75	Luxembourg	0.0per 10,000 people
76	Madagascar	0.0per 10,000 people
77	Malawi	0.0per 10,000 people
78	Malaysia	0.0per 10,000 people
79	Maldives	0.0per 10,000 people
80	Mali	0.0per 10,000 people
81	Malta	0.0per 10,000 people
82	Mauritania	0.0per 10,000 people
83	Mauritius	0.0per 10,000 people
84	Mexico	0.0per 10,000 people
85	Mongolia	0.0per 10,000 people
86	Moldova, Republic of	0.0per 10,000 people
87	Montenegro	0.0per 10,000 people
88	Morocco	0.0per 10,000 people
89	Mozambique	0.0per 10,000 people
90	Oman	0.0per 10,000 people
91	Namibia	0.0per 10,000 people
92	Nepal	0.0per 10,000 people
93	Netherlands	0.0per 10,000 people
94	New Caledonia	0.0per 10,000 people
95	Vanuatu	0.0per 10,000 people
96	New Zealand	0.0per 10,000 people
97	Nicaragua	0.0per 10,000 people
98	Niger	0.0per 10,000 people
99	Nigeria	0.0per 10,000 people
100	Norway	0.0per 10,000 people
101	Pakistan	0.0per 10,000 people
102	Panama	0.0per 10,000 people
103	Papua New Guinea	0.0per 10,000 people
104	Paraguay	0.0per 10,000 people
105	Peru	0.0per 10,000 people
106	Philippines	0.0per 10,000 people
107	Poland	0.0per 10,000 people
108	Portugal	0.0per 10,000 people
109	Guinea-Bissau	0.0per 10,000 people
110	Timor-Leste	0.0per 10,000 people
111	Qatar	0.0per 10,000 people
112	Romania	0.0per 10,000 people
113	Russian Federation	0.0per 10,000 people
114	Rwanda	0.0per 10,000 people
115	Saudi Arabia	0.0per 10,000 people
116	Senegal	0.0per 10,000 people
117	Serbia	0.0per 10,000 people
118	Seychelles	0.0per 10,000 people
119	Sierra Leone	0.0per 10,000 people
120	Singapore	0.0per 10,000 people
121	Slovakia	0.0per 10,000 people
122	Vietnam	0.0per 10,000 people
123	Slovenia	0.0per 10,000 people
124	Somalia	0.0per 10,000 people
125	South Africa	0.0per 10,000 people
126	Zimbabwe	0.0per 10,000 people
127	Spain	0.0per 10,000 people
128	South Sudan	0.0per 10,000 people
129	Sudan	0.0per 10,000 people
130	Suriname	0.0per 10,000 people
131	Eswatini	0.0per 10,000 people
132	Sweden	0.0per 10,000 people
133	Switzerland	0.0per 10,000 people
134	Syrian Arab Republic	0.0per 10,000 people
135	Tajikistan	0.0per 10,000 people
136	Thailand	0.0per 10,000 people
137	Togo	0.0per 10,000 people
138	Trinidad and Tobago	0.0per 10,000 people
139	United Arab Emirates	0.0per 10,000 people
140	Tunisia	0.0per 10,000 people
141	Türkiye	0.0per 10,000 people
142	Turkmenistan	0.0per 10,000 people
143	Uganda	0.0per 10,000 people
144	Ukraine	0.0per 10,000 people
145	The Republic of North Macedonia	0.0per 10,000 people
146	Egypt	0.0per 10,000 people
147	United Kingdom	0.0per 10,000 people
148	United Republic of Tanzania	0.0per 10,000 people
149	United States of America	0.0per 10,000 people
150	Burkina Faso	0.0per 10,000 people
151	Uruguay	0.0per 10,000 people
152	Uzbekistan	0.0per 10,000 people
153	Venezuela	0.0per 10,000 people
154	Samoa	0.0per 10,000 people
155	Yemen	0.0per 10,000 people
156	Zambia	0.0per 10,000 people
157	Afghanistan	0.0per 10,000 people
158	Albania	0.0per 10,000 people
159	Algeria	0.0per 10,000 people
160	Angola	0.0per 10,000 people
161	Argentina	0.0per 10,000 people
162	Australia	0.0per 10,000 people
163	Austria	0.0per 10,000 people
164	Bangladesh	0.0per 10,000 people
165	Armenia	0.0per 10,000 people
166	Barbados	0.0per 10,000 people
167	Belgium	0.0per 10,000 people
168	Bolivia	0.0per 10,000 people
169	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.0per 10,000 people
170	Botswana	0.0per 10,000 people
171	Brazil	0.0per 10,000 people
172	Belize	0.0per 10,000 people
173	Solomon Islands	0.0per 10,000 people
174	Brunei Darussalam	0.0per 10,000 people

Showing 174 of 174 countries

Topics

#statistic-of-the-day #ai-generated #nurses #midwives #health workforce #health system capacity #maternal health #primary care #SDG 3 #human resources for health

Data Source

This data comes from World Health Organization (WHO) — Global Health Observatory (GHO) (2023).

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