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Table 5 Midwifery and nursing professional 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 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

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%

  1. Low- and middle-income country data from WHO (most recent year available). LMIC, low- and middle-income country.