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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
65
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

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

  1. 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

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Bhutan20160.07per 1,000 people
Guinea20160.52per 1,000 people
India20160.58per 1,000 people
Jamaica20160.32per 1,000 people
Senegal20160per 1,000 people
Singapore20160.50per 1,000 people
Bhutan20150.19per 1,000 people
Indonesia20150per 1,000 people
Jamaica20150.31per 1,000 people
Pakistan20150.09per 1,000 people

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