Iceland - Nurses and midwives

Nurses and midwives (per 1,000 people)

The value for Nurses and midwives (per 1,000 people) in Iceland was 17.19 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.11 in 2009 and a minimum value of 15.16 in 2016.

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.

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Year Value
2000 19.35
2001 19.03
2002 19.27
2003 19.58
2004 19.57
2005 20.26
2006 20.04
2007 20.44
2008 22.43
2009 23.11
2010 21.38
2011 21.54
2012 21.72
2013 22.14
2014 22.14
2015 22.44
2016 15.16
2017 15.71
2018 16.69
2019 17.19

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Health systems