Summary
In 2023, there were nearly 30 million nurses worldwide. That figure is projected to rise to 36 million by 2030. But they will need to serve a projected global population of 8.5 billion people. Nurses make up nearly 40% of the global health workforce. Today, one in seven nurses works outside their home country - a sign of how heavily healthcare depends on migrant labour. Yet they are not always deployed where demand is greatest. Nearly 78% of the world’s nurses are concentrated in countries that account for less than half of the global population. Even as countries such as the Philippines and India continue producing nurses at scale, the outflow of nurses to wealthier economies is straining local healthcare systems.
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