Specialist surgical workforce

Specialist surgical workforce is the number of specialist surgical, anaesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) providers who are working in each country per 100,000 population.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
—
Cadence
Annual
Series
174
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

    Lancet Commission on Global Surgery

    Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, uri: www.lancetglobalsurgery.org, note: Data collected by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    WHO Collaborating Centre for Surgery and Public Health

    WHO Collaborating Centre for Surgery and Public Health, note: data collected by WHO Collaborating Centre for Surgery and Public Health at Lund University from various sources including Ministries of Health or equivalent national regulatory bodies, national official entities such as medical councils, Eurostat, OECD, WHO Euro Health For All Database, WHO EURO Technical resources for health Database

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    BMJ Glob Health

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Andorra201883.11per 100,000 population
Argentina201850.05per 100,000 population
Bangladesh20182.91per 100,000 population
Brazil201855.47per 100,000 population
Bulgaria2018112.71per 100,000 population
Burundi20180.40per 100,000 population
Cambodia20184.20per 100,000 population
Costa Rica201825.46per 100,000 population
Cyprus201884.42per 100,000 population
Fiji20185.43per 100,000 population

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