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| WHO Estimates of Health Personnel | ||||||||||
| Physicians, Nurses, Midwives, Dentists and Pharmacists (around 1998) | ||||||||||
| Rate per 100,000 population / Year | ||||||||||
| Country | Physicians | Nurses | Midwives | Dentists | Pharmacists | |||||
| Algeria | 84.6 | 1995 | 297.8 | 1995 | 28.2 | 1995 | ||||
| Angola | 7.7 | 1997 | 114.5 | 1997 | 4.3 | 1997 | 0 | 1997 | ||
| Benin | 5.7 | 1995 | 20.4 | 1995 | 7.9 | 1995 | 0.3 | 1995 | ||
| Botswana | 23.8 | 1994 | 219.1 | 1994 | 0 | 1994 | 2.2 | 1994 | ||
| Burkina Faso | 3.4 | 1995 | 19.6 | 1995 | 3.4 | 1995 | 0.3 | 1995 | ||
| Burundi | ||||||||||
| Cameroon | 7.4 | 1996 | 36.7 | 1996 | 0.5 | 1996 | 0.4 | 1996 | ||
| Cape Verde | 17.1 | 1996 | 55.6 | 1996 | 1.5 | 1996 | ||||
| Central African Republic | 3.5 | 1995 | 8.8 | 1995 | 4.9 | 1995 | 0.2 | 1995 | ||
| Chad | 3.3 | 1994 | 14.7 | 1994 | 2.3 | 1994 | 0.2 | 1994 | ||
| Comoros | 7.4 | 1997 | 34.1 | 1997 | 14 | 1997 | 14 | 1997 | ||
| Congo | 25.1 | 1995 | 185.1 | 1995 | 24.9 | 1995 | ||||
| Cote d'Ivoire | 9 | 1996 | 31.2 | 1996 | 15 | 1996 | ||||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 6.9 | 1996 | 44.2 | 1996 | 1.1 | 1996 | ||||
| Djibouti | 14 | 1996 | 74 | 1996 | 1.7 | 1996 | 2 | 1996 | ||
| Egypt | 202 | 1996 | 233 | 1996 | 25 | 1996 | 56 | 1996 | ||
| Equatorial Guinea | 24.6 | 1996 | 39.5 | 1996 | 2.2 | 1996 | 1 | 1996 | ||
| Eritrea | 3 | 1996 | 16 | 1996 | 2.2 | 1996 | 0.1 | 1996 | ||
| Ethiopia | ||||||||||
| Gabon | ||||||||||
| Gambia | 3.5 | 1997 | 12.5 | 1997 | 8.2 | 1997 | 0.5 | 1997 | ||
| Ghana | 6.2 | 1996 | 72 | 1996 | 53.2 | 1996 | 0.2 | 1996 | ||
| Guinea | 13 | 1995 | 55.7 | 1995 | 5.2 | 1995 | ||||
| Guinea-Bissau | 16.6 | 1996 | 109.4 | 1996 | 12.7 | 1996 | 0.9 | 1996 | ||
| Kenya | 13.2 | 1995 | 90.1 | 1995 | 2.2 | 1995 | ||||
| Lesotho | 5.4 | 1995 | 60.1 | 1995 | 47 | 1995 | 0.5 | 1995 | ||
| Liberia | 2.3 | 1997 | 5.9 | 1997 | 4.3 | 1997 | 0.1 | 1997 | ||
| Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | 128 | 1997 | 360 | 1996 | 13 | 1996 | 23 | 1996 | ||
| Madagascar | 10.7 | 1996 | 21.6 | 1996 | 10.7 | 1996 | 1 | 1996 | ||
| Mali | 4.7 | 1994 | 13.1 | 1994 | 3 | 1994 | 0.1 | 1994 | ||
| Mauritania | 13.8 | 1995 | 62.4 | 1995 | 10.1 | 1995 | 2 | 1995 | ||
| Mauritius | 85 | 1995 | 232.9 | 1995 | 13.5 | 1995 | ||||
| Morocco | 46 | 1997 | 105 | 1997 | 4 | 1997 | 11 | 1996 | ||
| Mozambique | ||||||||||
| Namibia | 29.5 | 1997 | 168 | 1997 | 116.5 | 1997 | 4 | 1997 | ||
| Niger | 3.5 | 1997 | 22.9 | 1997 | 5.5 | 1997 | 0.2 | 1997 | ||
| Nigeria | 18.5 | 1992 | 66.1 | 1992 | 52.4 | 1992 | 2.6 | 1992 | ||
| Rwanda | ||||||||||
| Sao Tome and Principe | 46.7 | 1996 | 127.4 | 1996 | 29.6 | 1996 | 5.2 | 1996 | ||
| Senegal | 7.5 | 1995 | 22.1 | 1995 | 6.6 | 1995 | 1.2 | 1995 | ||
| Seychelles | 132.4 | 1996 | 467.6 | 1996 | 394.6 | 1996 | 12.2 | 1996 | ||
| Sierra Leone | 7.3 | 1996 | 33 | 1996 | 4.7 | 1996 | 0.4 | 1996 | ||
| Somalia | 4 | 1997 | 20 | 1997 | 0.2 | 1997 | 0.1 | 1997 | ||
| South Africa | 56.3 | 1996 | 471.8 | 1996 | 17.8 | 1996 | ||||
| Sudan | 9 | 1996 | 58 | 1996 | 0.7 | 1996 | 1.1 | 1996 | ||
| Swaziland | 15.1 | 1996 | ||||||||
| Togo | 7.6 | 1995 | 29.7 | 1995 | 10.4 | 1995 | 0.7 | 1995 | ||
| Tunisia | 70 | 1997 | 286 | 1997 | 13 | 1997 | 17 | 1997 | ||
| Uganda | 18.7 | 1996 | 13.6 | 1996 | 0.2 | 1996 | ||||
| United Republic of Tanzania | 4.1 | 1995 | 85.2 | 1995 | 44.8 | 1995 | 0.7 | 1995 | ||
| Zambia | 6.9 | 1995 | 113.1 | 1995 | ||||||
| Zimbabwe | 13.9 | 1995 | 128.7 | 1995 | 28.1 | 1995 | 1.3 | 1995 | ||