Number of midwifery personnel (WHO)

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	Not applicable
Technical name	health_hc_provision_mid_num_who
Category	Health and long-term care
Label	Number of midwifery personnel (WHO)
Related indicators

Persons who have completed a programme of midwifery education and have acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered and/or legally licensed to practise midwifery, and are actually working in the country.  The persons may or may not have prior nursing education. Midwifery personnel includes professional midwives, auxiliary midwives, enrolled midwives and related occupations

Coding rules

Coding rules in accordance with WHO operationalisation.

Bibliographic info

Citation: World Health Organization (WHO). 2019. "The Global Health Observatory." https://www.who.int/data/gho.

Related publications: NA (no information available)

Misc

Project manager(s): Gabriela de Carvalho; Achim Schmid

Data release: 2019

Revisions: NA (no information available)

Sources

World Health Organization (WHO). 2019. "The Global Health Observatory." https://www.who.int/data/gho.