In 2022, women accounted for 90 percent of the nursing personnel in Peru, while only one in every ten people working in the sector were men. In that year, there was an average ratio of 1.8 nurses per doctor in the South American country.
Distribution of nursing personnel in Peru in 2022, by gender
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