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Number of licensed qualified surgeons actively working

Number of licensed qualified surgeons actively working. WHO Global Health Observatory indicator HRH_41.

Coverage
156 of 251 countries
Latest data
2015
Series
156
Unit
count
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
who-hrh-41
Interva ID
who-hrh-41

Recency

stale

data to 2015; catalog to 2025

Provenance

157 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

0%

Latest observation is 2015; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 10 year(s) behind (stale).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

100%

0 of 156 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 156 of the 251 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 1 observations; the earliest begins in 2009.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-08.

By country

Number of licensed qualified surgeons actively working for each of the 156 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Australia20154count
New Zealand2015856count
Andorra201420count
Antigua and Barbuda20145count
Armenia20141count
Austria20147count
Barbados201418count
Belize201423count
Benin201481count
Bhutan20146count

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Health Organization declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

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  2. Read from

    World Health Organization

    Global Health Observatory — HRH_41

    declared by who in IndicatorCode

Versions

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Health Organization (2026). Number of licensed qualified surgeons actively working. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/who-hrh-41 (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-who-hrh-41,
  title        = {Number of licensed qualified surgeons actively working},
  author       = {World Health Organization},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/who-hrh-41}},
  note         = {Interva dataset who-hrh-41; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
  urldate      = {2026-11-08}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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