Nurses and midwives (per 1,000 people) - Human development - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators
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Nurses and midwives are professional nurses, auxiliary nurses, enrolled nurses, and other nurses, such as dental nurses and primary care nurses, and professional midwives, auxiliary midwives, and enrolled midwives. Source: World Health Organization, OECD, TransMONEE, supplemented by country data.
| Nurses and midwives (per 1,000 people) - Human development - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (Most Recent Data) |
Rank | Country | Value |
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| 1 |  Seychelles (2004) | 7.93 |
| 2 | Swaziland (2004) | 6.3 |
| 3 | Gabon (2004) | 5.02 |
| 4 | Libya (2004) | 4.8 |
| 5 | South Africa (2004) | 4.08 |
| 6 | Mauritius (2004) | 3.73 |
| 7 | Namibia (2004) | 3.06 |
| 8 | Tunisia (2004) | 2.87 |
| 9 | Botswana (2004) | 2.65 |
| 10 | Algeria (2002) | 2.23 |
| 11 | Zambia (2004) | 2.01 |
| 12 | Sao Tome and Principe (2004) | 1.87 |
| 13 | Nigeria (2003) | 1.7 |
| 14 | Cameroon (2004) | 1.6 |
| 15 | Angola (2004) | 1.35 |
| 16 | Gambia (2003) | 1.32 |
| 17 | Kenya (2002) | 1.18 |
| 18 | Republic of the Congo (2004) | 0.96 |
| 19 | Ghana (2004) | 0.92 |
| 20 | Sudan (2006) | 0.9 |
| 21 | Cape Verde (2004) | 0.87 |
| 22 | Benin (2004) | 0.84 |
| 23 | Morocco (2004) | 0.78 |
| 24 | Comoros (2004) | 0.74 |
| 25 | Zimbabwe (2004) | 0.72 |
| 26 | Uganda (2004) | 0.71 |
| 27 | Guinea-Bissau (2004) | 0.7 |
| 28 | Mauritania (2004) | 0.64 |
| 29 | Lesotho (2003) | 0.62 |
| 30 | Mali (2004) | 0.62 |
| 31 | Ivory Coast (2004) | 0.6 |
| 32 | Malawi (2004) | 0.59 |
| 33 | Eritrea (2004) | 0.58 |
| 34 | Democratic Republic of the Congo (2004) | 0.53 |
| 35 | Equatorial Guinea (2004) | 0.53 |
| 36 | Guinea (2004) | 0.51 |
| 37 | Burkina Faso (2004) | 0.49 |
| 38 | Sierra Leone (2004) | 0.49 |
| 39 | Rwanda (2004) | 0.43 |
| 40 | Djibouti (2004) | 0.42 |
| 41 | Central African Republic (2004) | 0.41 |
| 42 | Togo (2004) | 0.39 |
| 43 | Tanzania (2002) | 0.37 |
| 44 | Senegal (2004) | 0.32 |
| 45 | Madagascar (2004) | 0.32 |
| 46 | Mozambique (2004) | 0.32 |
| 47 | Liberia (2004) | 0.3 |
| 48 | Chad (2004) | 0.28 |
| 49 | Niger (2004) | 0.23 |
| 50 | Ethiopia (2003) | 0.22 |
| 51 | Burundi (2004) | 0.19 |
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