Table 5.
Estimated health workforce supply versus “need” by regions and income group, 2013 and 2013
| 2013 (165 countries) | 2030 (165 countries) | # Countries in Category | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supply (S) | Need (N) | Diff (S–N) | Supply (S) | Need (N) | Diff (S–N) | ||
| WHO Region | |||||||
| Africa | 1,874,830 | 5,891,071 | −4,016,241 | 3,066,666 | 8,910,473 | −5,843,806 | 43 |
| Americas | 8,385,480 | 5,439,623 | 2,945,857 | 12,742,856 | 6,246,463 | 6,496,393 | 28 |
| Eastern Mediterranean | 2,690,443 | 3,797,769 | −1,107,326 | 4,611,408 | 5,055,625 | −444,217 | 15 |
| Europe | 12,692,401 | 5,628,533 | 7,063,868 | 16,803,264 | 5,786,268 | 11,016,996 | 50 |
| South-East Asia | 5,772,250 | 12,433,083 | −6,660,833 | 10,168,591 | 14,712,987 | −4,544,397 | 8 |
| Western Pacific | 10,294,627 | 11,538,553 | −1,243,926 | 17,261,342 | 12,270,476 | 4,990,867 | 21 |
| WB Region | |||||||
| East Asia and Pacific | 11,141,638 | 13,692,899 | −2,551,261 | 18,250,702 | 14,734,499 | 3,516,203 | 23 |
| Europe and Central Asia | 12,594,176 | 5,578,223 | 7,015,953 | 16,640,618 | 5,722,567 | 10,918,050 | 48 |
| Latin America | 4,140,233 | 3,287,004 | 853,229 | 5,784,767 | 3,825,876 | 1,958,892 | 26 |
| Middle East & North Africa | 2,570,885 | 2,354,695 | 216,190 | 3,846,948 | 3,032,910 | 814,038 | 15 |
| North America | 4,245,248 | 2,152,619 | 2,092,629 | 6,958,089 | 2,420,587 | 4,537,501 | 2 |
| South Asia | 5,357,579 | 11,745,586 | −6,388,007 | 10,293,688 | 14,248,390 | −3,954,702 | 8 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 1,660,273 | 5,917,606 | −4,257,333 | 2,879,315 | 8,997,462 | −6,118,146 | 43 |
| WB income groups | |||||||
| Low | 692,757 | 4,861,904 | −4,169,147 | 1,384,576 | 7,049,048 | −5,664,472 | 29 |
| Lower middle | 9,867,919 | 17,605,293 | −7,737,374 | 17,958,943 | 21,940,256 | −3,981,313 | 44 |
| Upper middle | 13,764,139 | 14,617,189 | −853,050 | 21,362,033 | 15,934,777 | 5,427,256 | 46 |
| High | 17,385,217 | 7,644,247 | 9,740,970 | 23,948,576 | 8,058,211 | 15,890,364 | 46 |
| World | 41,710,032 | 44,728,633 | −3,018,601 | 64,654,127 | 52,982,292 | 11,671,836 | 165 |
Health worker “need” refers to the WHO SDG threshold density of 4.45 health workers per 1000 population [31]