Australia - Nurses and midwives

Nurses and midwives (per 1,000 people)

The value for Nurses and midwives (per 1,000 people) in Australia was 13.24 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14.54 in 2017 and a minimum value of 9.76 in 2005.

Definition: Nurses and midwives include professional nurses, professional midwives, auxiliary nurses, auxiliary midwives, enrolled nurses, enrolled midwives and other associated personnel, such as dental nurses and primary care nurses.

Source: World Health Organization's Global Health Workforce Statistics, OECD, supplemented by country data.

See also:

Year Value
2000 10.09
2001 10.60
2002 9.99
2003 9.99
2004 10.24
2005 9.76
2007 10.16
2008 10.26
2009 10.75
2010 10.40
2011 10.81
2012 10.14
2013 11.94
2014 12.11
2015 12.20
2016 12.41
2017 14.54
2018 12.81
2019 13.24

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Health systems