Health profession demographic snapshot

A health profession demographic analysis of nurses and midwives has been carried out by Ahpra’s Research, Evaluation and Insights team for the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

The health profession demographic snapshot reports below were collated using:

• registration data (available from Ahpra’s annual reports)
• Australian Bureau of Statistics, state and territory population data 
• Commonwealth Department of Health’s Health Workforce Data tool.

To view the snapshots, click below: 

2023

• Midwives – a snapshot as at 30 June 2023 (441 KB,PDF)
• Midwife practitioners and midwives with scheduled medicines endorsements – a snapshot as at 30 June 2023 (515 KB, PDF)
• Nursing – a snapshot as at 30 June 2023 (443 KB, PDF)
• Enrolled nurses – a snapshot as at 30 June 2023 (474 KB, PDF)
• Registered nurses – a snapshot as at 30 June 2023 (422 KB, PDF)
• Nurse practitioners – a snapshot as at 30 June 2023 (435 KB, PDF)
  

2022

• Midwives – a snapshot as at 30 June 2022 (441 KB,PDF)
• Midwife practitioners and midwives with scheduled medicines endorsements – a snapshot as at 30 June 2022 (515 KB, PDF)
• Nursing – a snapshot as at 30 June 2022 (443 KB, PDF)
• Enrolled nurses – a snapshot as at 30 June 2022 (474 KB, PDF)
• Registered nurses – a snapshot as at 30 June 2022 (422 KB, PDF)
• Nurse practitioners – a snapshot as at 30 June 2022 (435 KB, PDF)

2020

• Midwives - a snapshot as at 30 June 2020 (218 KB,PDF)
• Nurses - a snapshot as at 30 June 2020 (218 KB,PDF)