Table 4 Medical practitioner numbers in selected low- and middle-income countries compared with numbers in Australia
From: Foreign-born health workers in Australia: an analysis of census data
Country | LMIC-born medical practitioners in Australia | LMIC-born medical practitioners who arrived in Australia between 2001 and 2011 | Number of medical practitioners in LMICs | Number of medical practitioners in LMICs per 10,000 population (Australia: 29.9 per 10,000 population) | LMIC-born practitioners in Australia as a percentage of those in home country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fiji | 313 | 108 | 380 | 4.5 | 82.4% |
India | 4,534 | 2,796 | 660,801 | 6.0 | 0.7% |
Nepal | 104 | 85 | 5,384 | 2.1 | 1.9% |
Sri Lanka | 2,058 | 977 | 10,279 | 4.9 | 20.0% |
Tonga | 15 | 7 | 30 | 2.9 | 50.0% |
Zambia | 76 | 28 | 649 | 0.6 | 11.7% |
Zimbabwe | 291 | 170 | 2,086 | 1.6 | 14.0% |