Table 1.

Density of health care workforce (per 1000) in 2014

Location	Physicians	Nurses and midwives	Dentistry personnel	Pharmaceutical personnel
Gulf Cooperation Councila	2.193	4.588	0.886	1.189
Bahrain	0.939	2.445	0.249	0.161
Kuwait	1.949	4.729	0.596	0.483
Oman	1.541	3.345	0.185	0.348
Qatar	1.964	5.7	0.572	0.931
Saudi Arabia	2.568	5.207	0.398	0.701
United Arab Emirates	1.558	3.061	3.1	3.68
Member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Developmentb	2.800	7.982	0.4	0.807
Canada (2015)	2.539	9.842	1.253	0.98
Australia (2015)	3.496	12.37	0.578	0.847
Norway (2015)	4.385	17.824	0.851	0.741
Japan (2014)	2.367	11.241	0.797	1.704
Mexico (2013)	2.071	2.509	0.117	–
Sweden (2013)	4.107	11.892	0.805	0.755
Turkey (2014)	1.749	3.200	0.297	0.351
United Kingdom (2015)	2.806	8.436	0.535	0.84
United States (2013)	2.554	9.884	–	0.887

Data source: Global Health Observatory data repository [4]

^aEstimated population-weighted average, using population size estimated by the United Nations [6]

^bEstimated population-weighted average for all the member countries of the OECD, using population size estimated by the United Nations [6]