Table 1.
Physician workforce distribution and number of medical schools by African country
| Country | Population (in 1000s) | Physicians per 100 000 population | Total number of physicians | FAIMER number of medical schools |
| Angola | 10 132 | 7.7 | 780 | 1 |
| Benin | 6428 | 5.7 | 366 | 1 |
| Botswana | 1578 | 23.8 | 376 | 0 |
| Burkina Faso | 12 217 | 3.4 | 415 | 1 |
| Burundi* | 5714 | 6 | 343 | 1 |
| Cameroon | 14 792 | 7.4 | 1095 | 1 |
| Cape Verde | 0.04 | 17.1 | 68 | 0 |
| Central African Republic | 3501 | 3.5 | 123 | 1 |
| Chad | 8419 | 3.3 | 278 | 1 |
| Comoros | 0.578 | 7.4 | 43 | 0 |
| Congo | 2809 | 25.1 | 705 | 1 |
| Congo (DR) | 51 810 | 6.9 | 3575 | 3 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 15 866 | 9 | 1428 | 1 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 0.474 | 24.6 | 117 | 0 |
| Eritrea | 4232 | 3 | 127 | 0 |
| Ethiopia* | 62 651 | 2 | 1253 | 3 |
| Gabon* | 1223 | 20 | 245 | 1 |
| Ghana | 19 509 | 6.2 | 1210 | 3 |
| Guinea | 8642 | 13 | 1123 | 1 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1278 | 16.6 | 212 | 1 |
| Kenya | 30 310 | 13.2 | 4001 | 2 |
| Lesotho | 1847 | 5.4 | 100 | 0 |
| Liberia | 3149 | 2.3 | 72 | 2 |
| Madagascar | 15 506 | 10.7 | 1659 | 3 |
| Malawi* | 10 874 | 2.3 | 250 | 1 |
| Mali | 10 665 | 4.7 | 501 | 1 |
| Mauritania | 2668 | 13.8 | 368 | 0 |
| Mauritius | 1179 | 85 | 1002 | 1 |
| Mozambique# | 16 934 | 2.57 | 435 | 1 |
| Namibia | 11 826 | 29.5 | 3489 | 0 |
| Niger | 10 174 | 3.5 | 356 | 1 |
| Nigeria | 123 750 | 18.5 | 22 894 | 16 |
| Rwanda* | 7405 | 4 | 296 | 1 |
| Sao Tome & Principe | 0.16 | 46.7 | 75 | 0 |
| Senegal | 9784 | 7.5 | 734 | 2 |
| Seychelles | 0.08 | 132.4 | 106 | 1 |
| Sierra Leone | 5203 | 7.3 | 380 | 1 |
| So. Africa | 42 351 | 56.3 | 23 844 | 8 |
| Somalia | 7253 | 4 | 290 | 1 |
| Sudan | 35 080 | 9 | 3157 | 14 |
| Swaziland | 1,120 | 15.1 | 169 | 0 |
| Tanzania | 33 768 | 4.1 | 1384 | 4 |
| The Gambia | 1367 | 3.5 | 48 | 0 |
| Togo | 5033 | 7.6 | 383 | 1 |
| Uganda* | 23 496 | 3 | 705 | 3 |
| Zambia | 9799 | 6.9 | 676 | 1 |
| Zimbabwe | 12 186 | 13.9 | 1694 | 1 |
| TOTAL/AVG | 663 529 | 12.5 | 82,949 | 1.8 avg |
| Avg. physicians per country | 1765 | |||
*Indicates countries for which physicians/100 000 data came from World Bank instead of World Health Organization
# Mozambique data come from Stephen S. Gloyd, as no data are available from WHO or World Bank
Note on calculations: Average physicians per 100 000 population in Africa overall = total number of doctors (82 949)/total population (663 529)
Sources: Population data from United States Census Bureau IDB Summary international Data Base (United Nations and National Statistics Offices) http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsum.html
Number of physicians from the World Health Organization http://www3.who.int/whosis/health_personnel/health_personnel.cfm?path=whosis,health_personnel&language=english;
Number of FAIMER (Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research) medical schools comes from http://imed.ecfmg.org/results.asp?country=&school=&currpage=1&cname=&city=®ion=AF&rname=Africa&psize=25