Nursing graduates are the number of students who have obtained a recognised qualification required to become a licensed or registered nurse in a given year.
The data includes graduates from an education programme required to become:
- a professional nurse, including general care and specialist nurse,
- an associate professional nurse (see definition for associate professional nurses).
The data does not include graduates from other fields of studies which do not provide a recognised foundation for the practice of nursing nor graduates from a midwifery programme.
This indicator is measured per 100 000 inhabitants.