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Rural residents, as a share of public paid employees, by occupation: Medical workers by country

Countries reporting
24
Highest
0.6802
Sri Lanka
Lowest
0.0154
Brazil
Median
0.1274
Years covered
21
2000–2020
Data points
247

What the numbers show

Rural residents, as a share of public paid employees, by occupation: Medical workers is currently reported for 24 countries. The highest value is 0.6802 in Sri Lanka; the lowest is 0.0154 in Brazil.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1274, and the mean is 0.1742.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 44.

Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 9 fell. The largest increase was in Peru (up 2,046.1%), and the largest decrease in Palestine, State of (down 62.2%).

Rural residents, as a share of public paid employees, by occupation: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Sri Lanka 0.6802 2016 down 15.0% falling
2 Philippines 0.4966 2019 up 52.4% rising
3 Georgia 0.37 2013 up 133.5% rising
4 Viet Nam 0.3507 2019 up 7.6% flat
5 Pakistan 0.2575 2014 up 81.0% rising
6 Republic of Moldova 0.2033 2015 down 27.3% falling
7 Costa Rica 0.1959 2012 up 43.7% rising
8 United States of America 0.1943 2018 up 3.1% flat
9 Russian Federation 0.164 2016 down 12.7% rising
10 Jordan 0.1498 2016 up 65.9% rising
11 Dominican Republic 0.1424 2015 up 107.2% falling
12 South Africa 0.1338 2020 down 22.1% falling
13 Peru 0.121 2016 up 2,046.1% volatile
14 Australia 0.1115 2015 down 18.0% flat
15 Palestine, State of 0.108 2017 down 62.2% falling
16 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.1006 2017 — rising
17 Ecuador 0.0967 2017 up 449.2% rising
18 Chile 0.0741 2017 up 96.3% rising
19 El Salvador 0.0594 2017 up 18.0% volatile
20 Honduras 0.0493 2019 down 19.0% volatile
21 Paraguay 0.0404 2010 down 7.8% volatile
22 Mexico 0.0378 2019 down 25.8% falling
23 Uruguay 0.0288 2016 up 86.5% volatile
24 Brazil 0.0154 2016 up 42.7% volatile

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Indicator
Rural residents, as a share of public paid employees, by occupation: Medical workers
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
24 places, 247 data points, 2000–2020
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