Nurses per 1,000 population by country 2021

Number of practicing nurses by country as of 2021

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Release date

November 2023

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2021 or latest year available

Supplementary notes

Associate professional nurses with a lower level of qualifications make up more than 50% of nurses in Slovenia, Croatia and Romania; between 33% and 50% in Greece, Iceland, Korea, Mexico and Switzerland; and between 15% and 30% in Australia, Canada, Finland, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
*Data include nurses working in the health sector as managers, educators, researchers and similar (e.g. for France, the number of practicing nurses is overestimated by about 12%).
**Data include all nurses licensed to practice.
***Data only refer to nurses employed in hospitals.

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