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Table 4 Estimates of health personnel per 100 000 population in selected African countries

From: Human resources for emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania: distribution of quantity or quality?

Country

Year

Physicians

Nurses

Angola

1997

7.7

114.5

Botswana

1994

23.8

219.1

Democratic Republic of Congo

1996

6.9

44.2

Ghana

1996

6.2

72.0

Lesotho

1995

5.4

60.1

Kenya

1995

13.2

90.1

Namibia

1997

29.5

168.0

South Africa

1996

56.3

471.8

Swaziland

1996

15.1

...

Tanzania

1995

4.1

85.2

Zambia

1995

6.9

113.1

Zimbabwe

1995

13.9

128.7

  1. Source: WHO estimates of health personnel; 1998