Benin vs Cameroon: Nurses and midwives per 1,000 people

Benin
0.611 per 1,000 people
in 2023
Cameroon
0.659 per 1,000 people
in 2022
Benin rank
174th
Cameroon rank
172nd

Nurses and midwives per 1,000 people over time

  • Benin
  • Cameroon
00.511.5200420132023

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 0.659 per 1,000 people against 0.611 per 1,000 people in Benin, a difference of 0.048 per 1,000 people.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.1 times Benin's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 6 shared years of data; in 2004 it was Cameroon ahead.

Benin ranks 174th and Cameroon ranks 172nd of 188 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Nurses and midwives per 1,000 people
Unit
per 1,000 people
Source
World Health Organization (Global Health Workforce Statistics), OECD, and country data, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
188 places, 3,381 data points, 1990–2023
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