Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Target 12: Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States

Indices:

1. Health worker density and distribution (per 10,000 population)

   Physicians (26.3) per 10000 population

   Dentist (6.9) per 10000 population

   Nurses & Midwives (59.7) per 10000 population

   Pharmacists (9.9) per 10000 population

    

   Health Worker Distribution, by Sex and Type of Occupation (%) 

   Physicians
   Males : 47.1
   Females : 52.9

   
   Dentists
   Males : 41.2
   Females : 58.8

   
   Nurses/Midwifes
   Males : 15.1
   Females : 84.9

   
   Pharmacists
   Males : 49.1
   Females : 50.9