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Ideal standard of health service staff to population ratios by community size [18]
| Population range | Ideal staff: population ratios | ||
| AHWs | Nurses | Doctors | |
| > 3,000 | 1:350 | 1:500 | 1:1,000 |
| 1,300 – 2,999 | 1:250 | 1:450 | 1:1,000 |
| 800 – 1,299 | 1:200 | 1:300 | 1:800 |
| 400 – 799 | 1:100 | 1:200 | 1:600 |
| 250 – 399 | 1:75 | 1:200 | 1:400 |
| 75 – 249 | 1:75 | 1:150 | 1:400 |
| < 75 | 1:50 | 1:150 | 1:400 |
