This page highlights country profiles available in the State of the World’s Nursing 2025 report (SOWN2025).

Nurses are key enablers of universal health coverage (UHC) and play a critical role in delivering Primary Health Care (PHC), connecting people, services and systems.

Nursing is the largest occupational group in the health sector, accounting for approximately 9 million nurses—representing around 30% of the global nursing workforce and more than half of all health professionals.

WHO supports Member States in strengthening the nursing workforce across education, employment, leadership and service delivery, to enable nurses to contribute fully to PHC and UHC in the Western Pacific Region.

The SOWN2025 provides the latest data and analysis on the nursing workforce, supporting evidence-based policy dialogue.

Country profiles and related data are available through the WHO National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA) Web portal, which supports countries in collecting, analysing and using health workforce data.