Indicator full name: Practising midwives, head count
Unit: number of professionals
Dimensions:
- Country/Area (COUNTRY/AREA)
- Supranational group of countries (COUNTRY_GRP)
- Year of measure (YEAR)
Years data is available: 1980—2021
Last updated: 22 November 2023
- Albania
- Andorra
- Ireland
- Israel
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- North Macedonia
- Portugal
- San Marino
- Slovakia
- Spain
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
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Practising midwives, head count (Line chart)
HlthRes-DB provides a wide range of statistics on human and technical resources for health and offers data on non-monetary health care resources collected through the joint work of the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and WHO/Europe
Human resources indicators: Indicators include the number and density of a wide range of health personnel (such as physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists and health care assistants), according to three different concepts (those practising, professionally active and licensed to practice). Information on employment in hospitals and numbers of medical and other graduates is also available. It is currently available in English and Russian.
Technical resources data: Data include the number and density of hospitals and hospital beds, stratified by ownership of facility (public, non-profit-making private and for-profit private), in addition to the number of beds for long-term care.
Information before 2011 is not verified.
The 2022 Revision of UN World Population Prospects was used for estimates.
Practising midwives, total number Indicator code: mid.pract Practising midwives provide services directly to patients. Inclusion - Midwifery professionals (ISCO-08 code: 2222) and midwifery associate professionals (ISCO-08 code: 3222) - Persons who have completed their studies/education in midwifery and who are licensed to practice - Salaried and self-employed midwives delivering services irrespectively of the place of service provision - Nurses (or nurse midwives) who are working most of the time as midwives - Foreign midwives licensed to practice and actively practising in the country Exclusion - Students who have not yet graduated - Midwives working in administration, management, research and in other posts excluding direct contact with patients - Unemployed midwives and retired midwives - Midwives working abroad Note: The number should be at the end of the calendar year.