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Practising nurses per 100,000 inhabitants

Practising nurses with an EU-recognised qualification per 100,000 inhabitants, published at country level.

Cities compared
175
Median
887/100k
Lowest · Romania
106/100k
Highest · Norway
1,524/100k

The reference is the median of the 175 cities published here, not a European average. Eurostat's EU aggregates are not collected yet, and deriving one from these cities would invent a figure no source publishes.

Ordered best first

This measure has stated that a higher value is better for a household choosing where to settle, so the order and the colour follow from it. Cities with the same value share a rank. This orders one measure; it is not a ranking of cities.

Every value is published at the same geographic level: Country. Periods 2023 to 2025. Confidence varies by city and is stated on each row.

Compared cities mix editions (2023, 2024, 2025).

Every value on this measure is published at country level, so the cities in one country share a single figure. The ranking below is grouped by country — 28 country rows, each listing the 175 cities that share its value. The rank and the median are still computed over the 175 cities, not over 28 countries: a median of countries is not published here, and deriving one would weight each country by how many of its cities happen to be in the launch set.

  1. 1
    NorwayBergen · Oslo · Stavanger · Tromsø · Trondheim

    1,524/100k

    Norway · 2024 · A · [1]
  2. 6
    LuxembourgLuxembourg City

    1,472/100k

    Luxembourg · 2024 · A · [2]
  3. 7
    IrelandCork · Dublin · Galway · Limerick

    1,417/100k

    Ireland · 2025 · A · [3]
  4. 11
    FinlandHelsinki · Jyväskylä · Oulu · Tampere · Turku

    1,312/100k

    Finland · 2025 · B · [4]
  5. 16
    GermanyAachen · Berlin · Bonn · Bremen · Cologne · Dresden · Düsseldorf · Frankfurt · Freiburg · Hamburg · Hanover · Heidelberg · Karlsruhe · Leipzig · Mainz · Munich · Münster · Nuremberg · Potsdam · Regensburg · Stuttgart

    1,251/100k

    Germany · 2024 · A · [5]
  6. 37
    SwitzerlandBasel · Bern · Geneva · Lausanne · Lucerne · Lugano · St. Gallen · Winterthur · Zug · Zurich

    1,215/100k

    Switzerland · 2024 · A · [6]
  7. 47
    BelgiumAntwerp · Bruges · Brussels · Ghent · Leuven · Liège

    1,143/100k

    Belgium · 2023 · A · [7]
  8. 53
    NetherlandsAmsterdam · Eindhoven · Groningen · Leiden · Nijmegen · Rotterdam · The Hague · Utrecht

    1,123/100k

    Netherlands · 2024 · A · [8]
  9. 61
    SwedenGothenburg · Linköping · Malmö · Stockholm · Uppsala

    1,114/100k

    Sweden · 2024 · A · [9]
  10. 66
    DenmarkAalborg · Aarhus · Copenhagen · Odense

    1,053/100k

    Denmark · 2024 · A · [10]
  11. 70
    AustriaGraz · Innsbruck · Klagenfurt · Linz · Salzburg · Vienna

    1,015/100k

    Austria · 2024 · B · [11]
  12. 76
    FranceAnnecy · Bordeaux · Grenoble · Lille · Lyon · Marseille · Montpellier · Nantes · Nice · Paris · Rennes · Strasbourg · Toulouse

    887/100k

    France · 2023 · A · [12]
  13. 89
    CzechiaBrno · Olomouc · Ostrava · Plzeň · Prague · České Budějovice

    799/100k

    Czechia · 2024 · A · [13]
  14. 95
    MaltaValletta

    797/100k

    Malta · 2024 · B · [14]
  15. 96
    LithuaniaKaunas · Klaipėda · Vilnius

    770/100k

    Lithuania · 2024 · A · [15]
  16. 99
    PortugalAveiro · Braga · Coimbra · Faro · Lisbon · Porto

    721/100k

    Portugal · 2024 · A · [16]
  17. 105
    ItalyBari · Bologna · Bolzano · Cagliari · Catania · Florence · Genoa · Milan · Naples · Padua · Parma · Rome · Trento · Trieste · Turin · Verona

    692/100k

    Italy · 2024 · A · [17]
  18. 121
    EstoniaTallinn · Tartu

    683/100k

    Estonia · 2024 · A · [18]
  19. 123
    PolandBydgoszcz · Gdańsk · Katowice · Kraków · Lublin · Poznań · Rzeszów · Szczecin · Warsaw · Wrocław · Łódź

    601/100k

    Poland · 2024 · A · [19]
  20. 134
    SpainAlicante · Barcelona · Bilbao · Granada · Madrid · Málaga · Palma · San Sebastián · Santander · Seville · Valencia · Vigo · Zaragoza

    573/100k

    Spain · 2024 · B · [20]
  21. 147
    SloveniaLjubljana · Maribor

    521/100k

    Slovenia · 2024 · A · [21]
  22. 149
    CyprusLimassol · Nicosia

    519/100k

    Cyprus · 2024 · A · [22]
  23. 151
    HungaryBudapest · Debrecen · Pécs · Szeged

    460/100k

    Hungary · 2024 · A · [23]
  24. 155
    BulgariaBurgas · Plovdiv · Sofia · Varna

    441/100k

    Bulgaria · 2024 · A · [24]
  25. 159
    LatviaRiga

    414/100k

    Latvia · 2024 · A · [25]
  26. 160
    CroatiaDubrovnik · Osijek · Rijeka · Split · Zadar · Zagreb

    265/100k

    Croatia · 2024 · A · [26]
  27. 166
    GreeceAthens · Heraklion · Patras · Thessaloniki

    248/100k

    Greece · 2024 · B · [27]
  28. 170
    RomaniaBrașov · Bucharest · Cluj-Napoca · Iași · Sibiu · Timișoara

    106/100k

    Romania · 2024 · A · [28]

Each bar grows from the median towards the side its value falls on. The two halves are scaled independently, so the lowest and highest values reach their ends even when the spread is uneven: a bar's length is comparable with others on the same side of the median, not across it.

3 cities are not in this comparison

Named rather than dropped. A rank out of 175 is only readable when the cities missing from it account for themselves.

  • Bratislava

    The source publishes no value for this city.

  • Košice

    The source publishes no value for this city.

  • Žilina

    The source publishes no value for this city.

How this measure is built

Definition
Practising nurses with an EU-recognised qualification per 100,000 inhabitants, published at country level.
Limits
National health-system capacity context, not a city staffing level, appointment guarantee or measure of care quality. Eurostat flags national definition differences and estimates next to affected values.
Position
The median, the gap and the rank are arithmetic over the values in this table and can be recomputed from it. They are not a score, carry no weighting, and combine with nothing else on the site.Read the method

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28 referencesEvery figure's exact source query

  1. Eurostat. Health personnel. Norway. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=NO; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  2. Eurostat. Health personnel. Luxembourg. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=LU; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  3. Eurostat. Health personnel. Ireland. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=IE; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2025

  4. Eurostat. Health personnel. Finland. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=FI; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2025

  5. Eurostat. Health personnel. Germany. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=DE; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  6. Eurostat. Health personnel. Switzerland. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=CH; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  7. Eurostat. Health personnel. Belgium. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=BE; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2023

  8. Eurostat. Health personnel. Netherlands. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=NL; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  9. Eurostat. Health personnel. Sweden. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=SE; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  10. Eurostat. Health personnel. Denmark. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=DK; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  11. Eurostat. Health personnel. Austria. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=AT; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  12. Eurostat. Health personnel. France. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=FR; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2023

  13. Eurostat. Health personnel. Czechia. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=CZ; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  14. Eurostat. Health personnel. Malta. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=MT; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  15. Eurostat. Health personnel. Lithuania. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=LT; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  16. Eurostat. Health personnel. Portugal. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=PT; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  17. Eurostat. Health personnel. Italy. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=IT; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  18. Eurostat. Health personnel. Estonia. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=EE; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  19. Eurostat. Health personnel. Poland. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=PL; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  20. Eurostat. Health personnel. Spain. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=ES; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  21. Eurostat. Health personnel. Slovenia. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=SI; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  22. Eurostat. Health personnel. Cyprus. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=CY; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  23. Eurostat. Health personnel. Hungary. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=HU; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  24. Eurostat. Health personnel. Bulgaria. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=BG; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  25. Eurostat. Health personnel. Latvia. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=LV; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  26. Eurostat. Health personnel. Croatia. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=HR; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  27. Eurostat. Health personnel. Greece. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=EL; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024

  28. Eurostat. Health personnel. Romania. Published 2026-07-13. Retrieved 2026-08-03. Open exact source query

    dataset hlth_rs_prs2; geo=RO; med_spec=NRS; unit=P_HTHAB; wstatus=PRACT; time=2024