About Medical Manpower
Pareto’s Principle, the 80/20 Rule applies to the distribution of medical manpower in the world too. Eighty percent of the medical manpower is available to 20% of the population in the developed world. This disparity between a country’s population and the number of qualified medical professionals that are available to take care of the sick and ailing leads to great difficulty in addressing the international disease burden (1✔).
Statistics on Medical Manpower
- Every year, about 1 million new doctors, nurses, midwives, and public health professionals are trained in the world (2✔).
- There are, at present, 2,800 medical colleges and over 100 more that are no longer operational (3✔).
- Around 18 million more healthcare professionals are needed by 2030 in low and lower-middle-income countries (4✔).
- Nearly 24 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have one or no medical colleges (5✔).
- In 2020, India had 543 recognized medical colleges and trained 67,000 medical students (6✔).
- In 2020, the global workforce stock was 65.1 million health workers. The projected health workforce stock by 2030 is 84 million health workers (7✔).
- Based on a study in 2019, there were 12.8 million physicians working around the world (8✔).
- According to a study, 75% of Indian doctors have experienced violence of some kind in the workplace (9✔).
- Most developing nations have a shortage of physicians and nurses due to the lack of medical colleges, and teachers and the migration of doctors and nurses to other countries.
- WHO estimates a projected shortfall of 10 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and lower- middle-income countries (10✔).
