Table 6. Averagea annual remuneration of salaried health workers in 92 Member States of the World Health Organization, 2010 (or closest available year).
Country income groupb | No. of countries with data | Average remuneration per worker |
|
---|---|---|---|
In US$, 2010 | In PPP, 2010 | ||
High | 39 | 28 298 | 28 063 |
Upper middle | 32 | 8037 | 14 667 |
Lower middle | 16 | 3079 | 5927 |
Low | 5 | 473 | 1347 |
All | 92 | 15 352 | 18 102 |
PPP, purchasing power parity; US$, United States dollars.
a The figures are arithmetic averages of the shares in each country group. This unweighted ratio represents the typical proportion of countries in a particular income group rather than the population-weighted average of all countries in the group.
b According to the 2013 World Bank classification, based on per capita income.
Note: The data for the different variables in the table are not necessarily for the same countries.
Source: WHO Global Health Expenditure Database.18