Colombia - Nurses and midwives

Nurses and midwives (per 1,000 people)

The value for Nurses and midwives (per 1,000 people) in Colombia was 0.595 as of 2004. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.595 in 2004 and a minimum value of 0.424 in 1990.

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
1990 0.424
1991 0.435
1992 0.446
1993 0.456
1994 0.468
1995 0.479
1996 0.490
1997 0.498
1998 0.521
1999 0.537
2001 0.561
2002 0.586
2003 0.583
2004 0.595

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Health systems