There is a corresponding lack of educational and institutional capacity to grow the profession fast enough in a number of Commonwealth countries. While lack of capacity is cause for concern in a number of Commonwealth countries, the rate at which the profession is growing in these same countries is insufficient to achieve the same ratios to be found in OECD countries.
Hong Kong Malaysia Australia United Kingdom New Zealand Botswana Canada Bangladesh Pakistan South Africa Sri Lanka
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Uganda Ghana
UK -The proportion of registered architects who have become members of RIBA
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Architects per thousand population
Number of architects/k population compared with number of architecture schools/M population.
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Pakistan - The proportion of registered architects who have become members of IAP
Survey of the Architectural Profession in the Commonwealth
While the number of registered architects in Ghana, for example, is growing at a faster rate than any of the other respondents, at 10.9% per annum, it is starting from a low base of 484 members and with a ratio of 0.02 architects per 1,000 head of population; insufficient for a country of almost 29 million which is urbanising at 3.1% per annum.
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