Nurses and midwives

Nurses and midwives include professional nurses, professional midwives, auxiliary nurses, auxiliary midwives, enrolled nurses, enrolled midwives and other associated personnel, such as dental nurses and primary care nurses.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
198
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
Afghanistan20230.55per 1,000 people
Andorra20234.72per 1,000 people
Argentina20234.75per 1,000 people
Bahamas20234.22per 1,000 people
Bangladesh20230.66per 1,000 people
Barbados20233.67per 1,000 people
Belarus202310.82per 1,000 people
Belize20232.06per 1,000 people
Benin20230.61per 1,000 people
Botswana20233.02per 1,000 people

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