Table 3.
Number of nutrition graduates and training intake by country and degree program
| Graduates (2012) | Annual intakes of students (2013) | ||||||||||||
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| Bachelor's degree | Master's degree | Doctorate | Bachelor's degree | Master's degree | Doctorate | ||||||||
| West Africa countries | Population (millions of inhabitants)a | Needs | Number of graduates | Needs | Number of graduates | Needs | Number of graduates | Range (per program) | Total (per country) | Range (per program) | Total (per country) | Range (per program) | Total (per country) |
| Benin | 9.7 | 58 | 6 | 6 | 42 | 3 | 1 | 20–25 | 45 | 10–30 | 75 | 3 | 3 |
| Burkina Faso | 17.3 | 104 | ND | 10 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | – | – |
| Cape Verde | 0.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 23.9 | 144 | 0 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 0 | – | – | ND | ND | – | – |
| Gambia | 1.8 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Ghana | 26.4 | 159 | 107 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 20–100 | 275 | 10–15 | ND | ND | |
| Guinea | 11.9 | 71 | ND | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 50 | 50 | – | – | – | – |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1.7 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Liberia | 3.9 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Mali | 16.7 | 100 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Mauritania | 3.5 | 21 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 20 | – | – |
| Niger | 17.5 | 105 | 86 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 15–45 | 125 | 20–25 | 45 | – | – |
| Nigeria | 177.1 | 1063 | 271 | 106 | 64 | 53 | 18 | 3–262 | 940 | 10–40 | 177 | 5–10 | 25 |
| Senegal | 13.6 | 81 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | – | – | 7–20 | 27 | 9 | 9 |
| Sierra Leone | 5.8 | 35 | 30 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 60 | 120 | 30 | 30 | – | – |
| Togo | 6.7 | 40 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 338.0 | 2028 | 517 | 203 | 174 | 101 | 21 | 3–262 | 1,610 | 7–40 | 471 | 3–10 | 37 |
– : non-existing; ND: no data.
a
Data were derived from the Wikipedia website (8).