Nurses and midwives, total — all countries

Nurses and midwives, total — Equatorial Guinea

Nurses and midwives, total in Equatorial Guinea in 2022 — 2,479 people. Ranked 126 in the world out of 141. Since 2004, the indicator has risen by 814.8%.

2022 2,479 people +291.01% vs 2017
World rank 126of 141
Period maximum 2,479 people2022
Period minimum 271 people2004

Trend over time

2004–2022 · people

Nurses and midwives, total — Equatorial Guinea, 2004–202201,0002,0003,00020042006200820102012201420162018202020222004: 271 people2017: 634 people2022: 2,479 people
Change over the period: +2,208 (+814.76%) Average annual rate: 13.09 %

Comparison, 2022

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

Equatorial Guinea 2,479 people
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 1.67M people
Middle Africa computed 226,442 people
Upper-middle-income countries computed 9.09M people
Nurses and midwives, total — Equatorial Guinea, by year Equatorial Guinea All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2022 2,479
2017 634
2004 271

About the indicator

The number of nursing and midwifery personnel, from WHO. This category is almost always the largest in a health system — worldwide there are on average about three times as many nurses as physicians, and in countries with developed primary care the gap is wider still.

Important: The ratio of nurses to physicians speaks of the structure of a system: a low value usually means that physicians are doing the work of nursing care, and that is a sign of a staffing shortage rather than of an abundance of doctors.

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