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State of Global Nursing Workforce in 2025
May 16 , 2025
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- The 2025 edition of WHO’s State of the world’s nursing provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the nursing workforce.
- The global nursing workforce grew from 27.9 million in 2018 to 29.8 million in 2023.
- But 78% of nurses are concentrated in countries representing just 49% of the global population.
- The global nurse-to-population ratio is 37.1 per 10,000, with Europe having five times more nurses than Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean.
- High-income countries are having 10 times more than low-income countries.
- 1 in 7 nurses globally are foreign-born.
- India has only 1.9 nurses per 1,000 people, far below the WHO's recommended ratio of 3 nurses per 1,000.
- India has over 3.3 million nurses registered with the Indian Nursing Council (INC).
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