State of the world’s nursing 2025 provides updated and validated data and evidence on the global nursing workforce as reported through a standardized approach for national health workforce data. The data in this report reflect a 33% increase in the number of countries reporting on a core set of indicators as compared with State of the world’s nursing 2020. The improved data availability allows greater precision in describing the challenges to nursing education, employment, service delivery and leadership, and and proper planning policy responses to address them.

Country profiles with national level data are available online for download.