The ratio of practicing nurses to inhabitants in South Korea increased by 0.4 nurses per 1,000 inhabitants (+4.78 percent) since the previous year. While the growth is slowing down, with 8.77 nurses per 1,000 inhabitants, the ratio is at its peak in the observed period. Notably, the ratio continuously increased over the last years.
Practising nurses are defined as nurses who provide services directly to patients. It includes professional nurses and associate professional nurses as well as foreign nurses with a license to work in a certain country. Retired and unemployed nurses are excluded from the number of practising nurses, as well as nurses who are not in direct contact with patients, midwives, nurses working abroad, students who have not yet graduated, and nurses without a recognized certification.
Find more statistics on other topics about South Korea with key insights such as
ratio of psychiatric care beds to inhabitants and
number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners.