The International Council of Nurses represents approximately how many nurses worldwide?

• A. 16 million
• B. 1 million
• C. 100 thousand
• D. 60 million

Answer: (A)

The question tests understanding of how large the global nursing workforce is and how an international body describes its reach. The International Council of Nurses represents about 16 million nurses worldwide, a figure commonly cited in global health workforce statistics. This reflects ICN’s broad membership of national nursing associations and the nurses they represent. The other options are inconsistent with this widely cited scale: they would undercount the global nursing workforce (1 million or 100 thousand) or vastly overstate it for practicing nurses (60 million). Keep in mind that counts can vary based on how one defines who counts as a nurse and which roles are included, but the figure associated with ICN is roughly 16 million.