From: Foreign-born health workers in Australia: an analysis of census data
Country | LMIC-born midwifery and nursing professionals in Australia | LMIC-born midwifery and nursing professionals who arrived in Australia from 2001 to 2011 | Number of midwifery and nursing professionals in LMICs | Number of midwifery and nursing professionals in LMICs per 10,000 population (Australia: 95.9 per 10,000 population) | LMIC-born professionals in Australia as a percentage of those in home country |
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Fiji | 1,733 | 409 | 1,660 | 19.8 | 104.4% |
India | 6,200 | 5,164 | 1,430,555 | 13.0 | 0.4% |
Nepal | 1,088 | 984 | 11,825 | 4.6 | 9.2% |
Samoa | 274 | 51 | 173 | 9.4 | 158.4% |
Sierra Leone | 130 | 118 | 991 | 1.7 | 13.1% |
Sri Lanka | 746 | 166 | 40,678 | 19.3 | 1.8% |
Zimbabwe | 2,053 | 1,766 | 9,357 | 7.2 | 21.9% |