The WHO Department of Human Resources for Health gathers information on the number of health workers and their employment status, gender and age, among other characteristics. This global atlas presents the estimate of numbers and densities the ratio per 100 000 population of health workers. It was constructed as part of a continuing process to collect and analyse country information in order to obtain a good and comparable picture of health workforce densities across countries.
Both basic and detailed data on the health workforce are presented here. Basic data concern five main health-personnel categories for 198 countries around the world: physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists and pharmacists. Detailed data relate to other health personnel; for some countries these data make it possible to distinguish between professional and associate health personnel.
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