Countries in Africa by doctors

Countries in Africa by doctors, World Bank, mostly 2022

#	Country	Per 1,000 people	Year	Region
1	Seychelles	6.60	2022	Eastern Africa
2	Algeria	1.66	2022	Northern Africa
3	Mauritius	1.44	2022	Eastern Africa
4	Tunisia	1.32	2021	Northern Africa
5	South Africa	0.79	2022	Southern Africa
6	Morocco	0.74	2021	Northern Africa
7	Cabo Verde	0.73	2023	Western Africa
8	Egypt	0.67	2020	Northern Africa
9	Eswatini	0.56	2023	Southern Africa
10	Namibia	0.55	2022	Southern Africa
11	Gabon	0.52	2022	Middle Africa
12	São Tomé and Principe	0.46	2022	Middle Africa
13	Comoros	0.42	2022	Eastern Africa
=14	Botswana	0.38	2023	Southern Africa
=14	Nigeria	0.38	2023	Western Africa
16	Zambia	0.32	2022	Eastern Africa
17	Kenya	0.29	2023	Eastern Africa
18	Ghana	0.27	2023	Western Africa
19	Mauritania	0.26	2022	Western Africa
20	Guinea-Bissau	0.25	2022	Western Africa
=21	Angola	0.24	2022	Middle Africa
=21	Lesotho	0.24	2022	Southern Africa
23	Benin	0.22	2023	Western Africa
=24	Djibouti	0.21	2022	Eastern Africa
=24	DR Congo	0.21	2022	Middle Africa
=24	Guinea	0.21	2022	Western Africa
=27	Mali	0.19	2023	Western Africa
=27	Uganda	0.19	2022	Eastern Africa
=29	Liberia	0.18	2022	Western Africa
=29	Mozambique	0.18	2022	Eastern Africa
=31	Congo	0.17	2022	Middle Africa
=31	Côte d'Ivoire	0.17	2023	Western Africa
=31	Madagascar	0.17	2022	Eastern Africa
=34	Burkina Faso	0.15	2022	Western Africa
=34	Equatorial Guinea	0.15	2022	Middle Africa
=36	Cameroon	0.14	2022	Middle Africa
=36	Ethiopia	0.14	2023	Eastern Africa
=36	Zimbabwe	0.14	2023	Eastern Africa
=39	Sierra Leone	0.13	2022	Western Africa
=39	Tanzania	0.13	2022	Eastern Africa
41	Senegal	0.11	2023	Western Africa
=42	Chad	0.09	2023	Middle Africa
=42	Eritrea	0.09	2022	Eastern Africa
=42	Gambia	0.09	2023	Western Africa
=42	Rwanda	0.09	2022	Eastern Africa
=46	Burundi	0.08	2022	Eastern Africa
=46	Togo	0.08	2022	Western Africa
48	Central African Republic	0.07	2023	Middle Africa
49	Malawi	0.05	2022	Eastern Africa
=50	Niger	0.04	2023	Western Africa
=50	South Sudan	0.04	2022	Eastern Africa

No World Bank figure for 3 countries: Libya, Somalia, Sudan.

Questions

Which country in Africa has the most doctors per person?

The Seychelles has the most doctors per person in Africa: 6.60 doctors per 1,000 people (2022). Next come Algeria (1.66 doctors per 1,000 people) and Mauritius (1.44 doctors per 1,000 people).

Which country in Africa has the fewest doctors per person?

The South Sudan, with 0.04 doctors per 1,000 people (2022).

What is the typical doctors of a country in Africa?

The median of the 51 countries in Africa is 0.21 doctors per 1,000 people: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Physicians — general practitioners and specialists — for every 1,000 people. Source: World Bank, mostly 2022. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.