World Bank · Health
Community health workers
Community health workers include various types of community health aides, many with country-specific occupational titles such as community health officers, community health-education workers, family health workers, lady health visitors and health extension package workers.
- Coverage
- 65 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2016
- Series
- 65
- Unit
- per 1,000 people
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-05
- Indicator
- community-health-workers
- Interva ID
- worldbank-community-health-workers
Recency
stale
data to 2016; catalog to 2025
Provenance
4 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 2016; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 9 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%20 of 65 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
MeasuredCovers 65 of the 238 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
MeasuredThe median series has 1 observations; the earliest begins in 1990.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo 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 assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-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 2026-11-07.
By country
Community health workers for each of the 65 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Australia 1996–2006
- Bangladesh 2004–2012
- Belize 2009–2009
- Bhutan 2004–2016
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of 2001–2001
- Botswana 1998–2009
- Burkina Faso 2004–2012
- Burundi 2004–2004
- Cabo Verde 2004–2004
- Cambodia 2004–2004
- Central African Republic 2004–2009
- Chad 2004–2004
- Chile 1992–1992
- China 1990–2011
- Equatorial Guinea 2004–2004
- Estonia 2000–2000
- Eswatini 2004–2004
- Ethiopia 2003–2009
- France 2007–2007
- Gambia 2003–2008
- Ghana 1998–2008
- Grenada 1998–2003
- Guinea 2016–2016
- Guinea-Bissau 2004–2004
- Guyana 2009–2010
- India 1991–2016
- Indonesia 2015–2015
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 2004–2004
- Iraq 2004–2004
- Jamaica 2008–2016
- Jordan 2004–2004
- Korea, Republic of 2004–2009
- Liberia 2010–2010
- Malawi 2008–2008
- Malaysia 2010–2010
- Maldives 1991–2014
- Mali 2009–2010
- Mauritania 2013–2013
- Mauritius 2004–2004
- Micronesia, Federated States of 2008–2008
- Mongolia 2008–2010
- Mozambique 2012–2013
- Myanmar 2004–2012
- Nauru 2008–2011
- Nepal 2004–2004
- Nigeria 2007–2008
- Pakistan 1992–2015
- Panama 2000–2000
- Papua New Guinea 2008–2008
- Rwanda 2004–2004
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 1990–2001
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2000–2000
- Sao Tome and Principe 2004–2004
- Senegal 2016–2016
- Sierra Leone 2004–2010
- Singapore 2012–2016
- Slovakia 2013–2013
- South Africa 2004–2004
- Sudan 2004–2004
- Thailand 2000–2000
- Timor-Leste 2004–2004
- Uganda 2005–2005
- Vanuatu 2007–2008
- Yemen 2004–2010
- Zambia 2005–2008
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 2016 | 0.07 | per 1,000 people |
| Guinea | 2016 | 0.52 | per 1,000 people |
| India | 2016 | 0.58 | per 1,000 people |
| Jamaica | 2016 | 0.32 | per 1,000 people |
| Senegal | 2016 | 0 | per 1,000 people |
| Singapore | 2016 | 0.50 | per 1,000 people |
| Bhutan | 2015 | 0.19 | per 1,000 people |
| Indonesia | 2015 | 0 | per 1,000 people |
| Jamaica | 2015 | 0.31 | per 1,000 people |
| Pakistan | 2015 | 0.09 | per 1,000 people |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
World Health Organization
Global Health Workforce Statistics, World Health Organization (WHO)
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim
Country data
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
World Development Indicators
declared by worldbank in source
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
World Bank (2026). Community health workers. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-community-health-workers (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.
@misc{interva-worldbank-community-health-workers,
title = {Community health workers},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-community-health-workers}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-community-health-workers; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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