Dentists per 10,000 people — all countries

Dentists per 10,000 people — Suriname

Dentists per 10,000 people in Suriname in 2021 — 0.7 per 10k. Ranked 89 in the world out of 116. Since 2004, the indicator has fallen by 14.6%.

2021 0.7 per 10k +27.27% vs 2019
World rank 89of 116
Period maximum 0.82 per 10k2004
Period minimum 0.55 per 10k2019

Trend over time

2004–2021 · per 10,000 people

Dentists per 10,000 people — Suriname, 2004–20210.50.60.70.80.920042006200820102012201420162018202020212004: 0.82 per 10k2018: 0.67 per 10k2019: 0.55 per 10k2021: 0.7 per 10k
Change over the period: −0.12 (−14.63%) Average annual rate: -0.93 %

Comparison, 2021

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

Suriname 0.7 per 10k
South America computed 7.55 per 10k
Upper-middle-income countries computed 3.89 per 10k
Dentists per 10,000 people — Suriname, by year Suriname All countries CSV XLSX
Year per 10k Change Change, %
2021 0.7
2019 0.55 −0.12 −17.91%
2018 0.67
2004 0.82

South America, 2021

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

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.