The Global Health Care Workforce Has A 34 Million Worker Shortage

The global health workforce was an estimated 34.4 million workers short of the minimum workforce densities associated with reaching a score of 80 out of 100 on the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) effective coverage index in 2023. The gap persists despite a 198.5% increase in the global health workforce between 1990 and 2023, when the number of health workers increased by 81.2 million to reach 122.1 million.

In the United States, there were 677.7 health care workers per 10,000 residents in 2023, compared with 513.6 per 10,000 across high-income countries. The . . .