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Physician workforce distribution and number of medical schools by African country |
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| Country |
Population (in 1000s) |
Physicians per 100 000 population |
Total number of physicians |
FAIMER number of medical schools |
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| Angola |
10 132 |
7.7 |
780 |
1 |
| Benin |
6428 |
5.7 |
366 |
1 |
| Botswana |
1578 |
23.8 |
376 |
0 |
| Burkina Faso |
12 217 |
3.4 |
415 |
1 |
| Burundi* |
5714 |
6 |
343 |
1 |
| Cameroon |
14 792 |
7.4 |
1095 |
1 |
| Cape Verde |
0.04 |
17.1 |
68 |
0 |
| Central African Republic |
3501 |
3.5 |
123 |
1 |
| Chad |
8419 |
3.3 |
278 |
1 |
| Comoros |
0.578 |
7.4 |
43 |
0 |
| Congo |
2809 |
25.1 |
705 |
1 |
| Congo (DR) |
51 810 |
6.9 |
3575 |
3 |
| Côte d'Ivoire |
15 866 |
9 |
1428 |
1 |
| Equatorial Guinea |
0.474 |
24.6 |
117 |
0 |
| Eritrea |
4232 |
3 |
127 |
0 |
| Ethiopia* |
62 651 |
2 |
1253 |
3 |
| Gabon* |
1223 |
20 |
245 |
1 |
| Ghana |
19 509 |
6.2 |
1210 |
3 |
| Guinea |
8642 |
13 |
1123 |
1 |
| Guinea-Bissau |
1278 |
16.6 |
212 |
1 |
| Kenya |
30 310 |
13.2 |
4001 |
2 |
| Lesotho |
1847 |
5.4 |
100 |
0 |
| Liberia |
3149 |
2.3 |
72 |
2 |
| Madagascar |
15 506 |
10.7 |
1659 |
3 |
| Malawi* |
10 874 |
2.3 |
250 |
1 |
| Mali |
10 665 |
4.7 |
501 |
1 |
| Mauritania |
2668 |
13.8 |
368 |
0 |
| Mauritius |
1179 |
85 |
1002 |
1 |
| Mozambique# |
16 934 |
2.57 |
435 |
1 |
| Namibia |
11 826 |
29.5 |
3489 |
0 |
| Niger |
10 174 |
3.5 |
356 |
1 |
| Nigeria |
123 750 |
18.5 |
22 894 |
16 |
| Rwanda* |
7405 |
4 |
296 |
1 |
| Sao Tome & Principe |
0.16 |
46.7 |
75 |
0 |
| Senegal |
9784 |
7.5 |
734 |
2 |
| Seychelles |
0.08 |
132.4 |
106 |
1 |
| Sierra Leone |
5203 |
7.3 |
380 |
1 |
| So. Africa |
42 351 |
56.3 |
23 844 |
8 |
| Somalia |
7253 |
4 |
290 |
1 |
| Sudan |
35 080 |
9 |
3157 |
14 |
| Swaziland |
1,120 |
15.1 |
169 |
0 |
| Tanzania |
33 768 |
4.1 |
1384 |
4 |
| The Gambia |
1367 |
3.5 |
48 |
0 |
| Togo |
5033 |
7.6 |
383 |
1 |
| Uganda* |
23 496 |
3 |
705 |
3 |
| Zambia |
9799 |
6.9 |
676 |
1 |
| Zimbabwe |
12 186 |
13.9 |
1694 |
1 |
| TOTAL/AVG |
663 529 |
12.5 |
82,949 |
1.8 avg |
| Avg. physicians per country |
1765 |
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*Indicates countries for which physicians/100 000 data came from World Bank instead of World Health Organization # Mozambique data come from Stephen S. Gloyd, as no data are available from WHO or World Bank Note on calculations: Average physicians per 100 000 population in Africa overall = total number of doctors (82 949)/total population (663 529) Sources: Population data from United States Census Bureau IDB Summary international Data Base (United Nations and National Statistics Offices) http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsum.html Number of physicians from the World Health Organization http:/ / www3.who.int/ whosis/ health_personnel/ health_personnel.cfm?path=whosis,he alth_personnel&language=english; Number of FAIMER (Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research) medical schools comes from http:/ / imed.ecfmg.org/ results.asp?country=&school=&currpa ge=1&cname=&city=®ion=AF&rname=A frica&psize=25 | ||||
Hagopian et al. Human Resources for Health 2004 2:17 doi:10.1186/1478-4491-2-17 |
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