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Algeria | |
Angola | |
Benin | |
Botswana | |
Burkina Faso | |
Burundi | |
Cameroon | |
Cape Verde | |
Central African Republic | |
Chad | |
Comoros | |
Congo | |
Côte d’Ivoire | |
Djibouti | |
DRC | |
Egypt | |
Equatorial Guinea | |
Eritrea | |
Eswatini | |
Ethiopia | |
Gabon | |
Gambia | |
Ghana | |
Guinea | |
Guinea-Bissau | |
Kenya | |
Lesotho | |
Liberia | |
Libya | |
Madagascar | |
Malawi | |
Mali | |
Mauritania | |
Mauritius | |
Morocco | |
Mozambique | |
Namibia | |
Niger | |
Nigeria | |
Rwanda | |
SADR | |
São Tomé and Príncipe | |
Senegal | |
Seychelles | |
Sierra Leone | |
Somalia | |
South Africa | |
South Sudan | |
Sudan | |
Tanzania | |
Togo | |
Tunisia | |
Uganda | |
Zambia | |
Zimbabwe |
Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health | |
Life expectancy at birth | |
Maternal mortality ratio | |
Stillbirth rate | |
Neonatal mortality rate | |
Infant mortality rate | |
Under 5 mortality rate | |
Antenatal care coverage: 4+ visits | |
Antenatal care coverage: 8+ visits | |
Births attended by skilled health personnel | |
Postpartum care coverage for mothers | |
Postnatal care coverage for newborns | |
Exclusive breastfeeding for infants under 6 months | |
Coverage of first dose of measles vaccination | |
Stunting - short height for age under age 5 | |
Wasting – low weight for height under age 5 | |
Overweight - heavy for height under 5 | |
Sexual and Reproductive Health | |
Child marriage before age 15 | |
Child marriage before age 18 | |
Female genital mutilation | |
Sexual violence by age 18 - female | |
Sexual violence by age 18 - male | |
Very early child bearing under age 16 | |
Adolescent birth rate ages 15 to 19 | |
Contraceptive prevalance rate, modern methods, all women | |
Demand satisfied for modern contraception | |
Communicable Diseases | |
New HIV infections | |
Antiretroviral treatment coverage | |
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV | |
Condom use | |
New TB infections | |
New malaria infections | |
Non-Communicable Diseases | |
Mortality from non-communicable diseases | |
Suicide mortality rate | |
Current tobacco use among females aged 15 and over | |
Current tobacco use among males aged 15 and over | |
Harmful alcohol use aged 15 and over | |
Health Financing | |
External health expenditure as % current health expenditure | |
Government health expenditure as % current health expenditure | |
Government health expenditure as % GDP | |
Government health expenditure as % general govt expenditure | |
Government health expenditure per capita | |
Out-of-pocket health expenditure as % of current health expenditure | |
Percentage of national health budget allocated for reproductive health | |
Health systems and policies | |
Density of health workers - physicians | |
Density of health workers - nurses and midwives | |
Density of health workers - pharmaceutical staff | |
Qualified obstetricians | |
Birth registration | |
At least basic drinking water | |
At least basic sanitation services | |
Open defecation | |
Implementation of AMRH Initiative |
Full Name: | Density of physicians per 10,000 population |
Full Unit: | per 10,000 population |
Year-range of Data: | 2004 - 2017 |
Source: | WHO Global Health Workforce Statistics |
Link to Source: | http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.HWFGRP_0020?lang=en |
Date Source Published: | 14th March 2019 |
Date Source Accessed: | 25th April 2019 |
The following countries had no data: |
This is the number of health workers per 10,000 population in a given national area. The density of physicians is defined as the number of physicians including generalists and specialist medical practitioners per 10,000 population in the given national area.
This indicator measures the number of health workers relative to the population of the given area. It can be used for advocacy purposes. Measuring and monitoring the density of healthcare workers is crucial for understanding the available resources in a health system. The density of health workers is an indicator for monitoring Sustainable Development Goal 3 Health and Wellbeing; Target 3.c: Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States.
The compilation of data is from the following sources: Routine administrative information systems, which includes reports on public expenditure, staffing, payroll, professional training, registration and licensure; population censuses; labour force and employment surveys; and health facility assessments.
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More about indicator and sources
Since the adoption of the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030, states are called on to report a core set of data on human resources for health on a yearly basis to the Global Health Observatory. An online National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA) data platform waslaucnhed inNovember 2017 to facilitate national reporting. UN Member States are called to use the NHWA data platform to report health workforce data. Aadditional sources complement the national reporting through the NHWA data platform,such as the National Census, Labour Force Surveys and key administrative national and regional sources are also used. Most of the data from administrative sources are derived from published national health sector reviews and/or official country reports to WHO offices. Countries with missing data for
the year 2016 (baseline value for reporting of the WHO 13th Global Programme of Work) were estimated from a linear model of density time trend based on at least five data points including one reported density in the period 2011-2013.
You can read more about the NHWA here: https://www.who.int/hrh/documents/brief_nhwa_handbook/en/
The health worker occupations are classified according to the latest version of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO - 08). The ISCO-08 codes included in this category are 221 -Medical Doctors, 2211 - General Medical Practitioners and 2212 - Specialist Medical Practitioners.
Click on this link to see more about the definition of this indicator: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-03-0C-01.pdf
Click on this link to access to the ISCO: https://www.who.int/hrh/documents/brief_nhwa_handbook/en/
More information on calculations
The data presented in the Global Health Workforce Statistics database are processed data extracts of the national reporting in the NHWA data platform. Complementing the national reporting, additional sources such as the National Census, Labour Force Surveys and key administrative national and regional sources are also employed. Due to the several data sources, considerable variability remains across countries in the coverage, periodicity, quality and completeness of the original data.
Density is computed with a population size as denominator. For the purposes of international comparisons, standard population estimates have used as the denominator instead of national estimates, such as those from the World Population Prospects estimated by the United Nations Population Division.
To better inform the health work force statistics, nation states are strongly requested to use occupation definitions following the most recent international classification when submitting data for the National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA), that is the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08) (International Labour Organization 2012).