Table 3.
Country | Ghana | South Africa | Zimbabwe |
Doctors/pop (000,000) | 6.2 | 56.3 | 13.9 |
Doctors stock | 1,220 | 22,464 | 1,1603 |
Annual doctor registration in UK | 14 | 454 | 12 |
Ratio: annual doctor registration / doctors stock | 1.1% | 2.0% | 0.7% |
Nurses / pop (000,000) | 72 | 471.8 | 128.7 |
Nurses stock | 14,168 | 188,249 | 14,838 |
Annual nurse registration in UK | 140 | 1086 | 382 |
Ratio: annual nurses registration / nurses stock | 1.0% | 0.6% | 2.6% |
Source: WHO, HRH data base, 1998; (last accessed 26/11/02). General Medical Council UK; Personal Communication, General Medical Council: United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting