Table 2.
Distribution of eye health workers in by country language in sub-Saharan Africa
| Minimum required per million population (see Table 1) | Actual number per million population | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglophone (English speaking) | Francophone | Lusophone | Total for sub-Saharan Africa | ||
| Derived from Resnikoff, BJO, 2012, Palmer J., ICEH, 2014 and the IAPB Africa data base, January 2016. | |||||
| Population | 574 million | 281 million | 53 million | 908 million | |
| Ophthalmologists (per million) | 4 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 2,038 |
| Optometrists (per million) | 10 | 12.7 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 7,529 |
| Ophthalmic nurses and Allied ophthalmic personnel (minimum 10 per million) | 10 | 7.1 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 5,561 |