Table 1

Health workers by country and selected cadres in the African Region, 2018

Country	Physician generalists	Physician specialists	Nurses/ midwives	Dentists	Pharmacists and technicians	Laboratory personnel	Community health workers	Health managers and support staff	Other health workers	Total
Country	Physician generalists	Physician specialists	Nurses/ midwives	Dentists	Pharmacists and technicians	Laboratory personnel	Community health workers	Health managers and support staff	Other health workers	Total	Algeria	34 077	39 091	66 325	12 781	14 106	14 548	–	87 370	61 196	329 494
Angola	3043	3550	47 520	1652	2302	98	1680	28 652	19 961	108 458
Benin	391	319	4073	–	14	241	–	156	5436	10 630
Botswana	815	38	6935	94	487	460	–	–	1978	10 807
Burkina Faso	888	738	16 894	80	792	699	2749	1524	1941	26 305
Burundi	889	195	9156	14	119	1071	11 845	4289	10 404	37 982
Cameroon	2400	859	10 615	308	350	5235	–	250	11 117	31 134
Cabo Verde	165	287	795	81	172	65	117	1418	437	3537
Central African Republic	263	72	1195	10	36	112	115	87	528	2418
Chad	646	157	4799	3	269	749	7	1168	1857	9655
Comoros	130	90	1234	32	55	8	–	44	1163	2756
Congo	269	275	5081	27	157	320	–	901	1982	9012
Côte d'Ivoire	4246	1356	17 190	506	2495	–	14 556	230	35 797	76 376
Democratic Republic of the Congo	30 768	778	107 427	404	1687	2934	–	76 961	3043	224 002
Equatorial Guinea	246	–	406	–	10	2	–	–	1986	2650
Eritrea	160	120	3984	186	451	549	243	3563	579	9835
Eswatini	211	67	2218	74	281	370	6324	1410	3519	14 474
Ethiopia	5867	5396	77 933	1889	10 752	10 450	37 259	77 539	23 808	250 893
Gabon	570	798	6085	40	227	439	–	2257	1038	11 454
Gambia	181	117	1498	3	79	138	1553	–	355	3924
Ghana	3316	1090	53 452	713	2127	1563	15 820	24 660	19 442	122 183
Guinea	2649	138	7195	73	255	181	16 567	670	129	27 857
Guinea-Bissau	290	28	1421	16	82	172	4057	611	1213	7890
Kenya	5602	2440	59 901	1764	2295	–	58 079	2759	31 716	164 556
Lesotho	815	183	3746	159	398	205	14 508	2240	8098	30 352
Liberia	234	12	9415	24	1071	–	3391	5715	4758	24 620
Madagascar	4593	637	7724	556	329	306	35 000	6766	1774	57 685
Malawi	2582	178	6025	112	387	542	10 016	178	3555	23 575
Mali	2151	715	8394	30	1424	–	1152	8331	4779	26 976
Mauritania	808	818	4872	151	100	122	500	1552	531	9454
Mauritius	1188	1207	4986	466	748	291	180	3610	2218	14 894
Mozambique	1 555	625	13 781	545	2 310	1 951	2 205	29 201	6 544	58 717
Namibia	1044	401	12 956	289	907	510	2292	2470	4771	25 640
Niger	1065	–	4483	30	60	432	55	768	1661	8554
Nigeria	74 543	9364	301 579	25 487	24 668	311 269	116 454	0	76 829	940 193
Rwanda	783	567	10 758	228	167	1 990	45 000	0	503	59 996
Sao Tome & Principe	40	20	256	–	–	–	–	79	417	812
Senegal	676	2207	7592	236	215	328	17 417	6 003	7107	41 781
Seychelles	125	115	1277	163	124	71	–	–	453	2328
Sierra Leone	234	47	5693	423	156	311	505	–	685	8054
South Africa	29 311	14 192	287 458	6816	16 195	–	54 180	–	47 890	456 042
South Sudan	338	73	3726	32	360	272	1455	20	1694	7970
United Republic of Tanzania	2434	451	31 940	682	1845	4361	0	633	61 396	103 742
Togo	230	354	3234	21	226	615	7500	4073	7323	23 576
Uganda	17 007	179	23 644	26	324	3874	–	–	4646	49 700
Zambia	1701	325	17 948	455	1708	1602	1262	17 801	7538	50 340
Zimbabwe	1715	244	26 689	347	776	648	2143	9829	8023	50 414
Total	243 254	90 913	1 311 508	58 028	94 098	370 104	486 186	415 788	503 818	3 573 697