Dentists per 10,000 people — all countries

Dentists per 10,000 people — Saint Lucia

Dentists per 10,000 people in Saint Lucia in 2017 — 1.76 per 10k. Ranked 86 in the world out of 118. Since 1999, the indicator has risen by 208.8%.

2017 1.76 per 10k −21.43% vs 2014
World rank 86of 118
Period maximum 3.11 per 10k2013
Period minimum 0.57 per 10k1999

Trend over time

1999–2017 · per 10,000 people

Dentists per 10,000 people — Saint Lucia, 1999–20170123419992001200320052007200920112013201520171999: 0.57 per 10k2001: 1.69 per 10k2010: 1.64 per 10k2011: 2.45 per 10k2012: 2.84 per 10k2013: 3.11 per 10k2014: 2.24 per 10k2017: 1.76 per 10k
Change over the period: +1.19 (+208.77%) Average annual rate: 6.46 %

Comparison, 2017

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia 1.76 per 10k
Upper-middle-income countries computed 4.54 per 10k
Dentists per 10,000 people — Saint Lucia, by year Saint Lucia All countries CSV XLSX
Year per 10k Change Change, %
2017 1.76
2014 2.24 −0.87 −27.97%
2013 3.11 +0.27 +9.51%
2012 2.84 +0.39 +15.92%
2011 2.45 +0.81 +49.39%
2010 1.64
2001 1.69
1999 0.57

About the indicator

The number of dentistry personnel per 10,000 people, from WHO. Dentistry is set apart as a separate indicator because almost everywhere it is financed differently from the rest of medicine — more often out of personal funds — and provision of it is poorly predicted by overall provision of physicians.

Important: The World Bank database has no such indicator, so coverage here is narrower: 193 territories against 245 for nursing personnel.

Source: Global Health Observatory (WHO), license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.