Emigration rate of tertiary educated (% of total tertiary educated population) - Population - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators

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Emigration rate of tertiary educated shows the stock of emigrants ages 25 and older, residing in an OECD country other than that in which they were born, with at least one year of tertiary education as a percentage of the population age 25 and older with tertiary education. Source: Fr�d�ric Docquier, Abdeslam Marfouk, and B. Lindsay Lowell�s, �A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain� (2007).

Rank	Country	Value
Emigration rate of tertiary educated (% of total tertiary educated population) - Population - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2000)
1	Cape Verde	82.42
2	Seychelles	77.23
3	Gambia	67.78
4	Mauritius	55.83
5	Sierra Leone	49.20
6	Ghana	44.64
7	Liberia	44.25
8	Kenya	38.52
9	Uganda	35.98
10	Eritrea	35.23
11	Somalia	34.51
12	Guinea-Bissau	27.68
13	Sao Tome and Principe	26.58
14	Rwanda	26.29
15	Republic of the Congo	22.85
16	Mozambique	22.52
17	Equatorial Guinea	21.31
18	Malawi	20.85
19	Comoros	20.72
20	Morocco	18.02
21	Cameroon	17.12
22	Senegal	17.09
23	Zambia	16.41
24	Togo	16.30
25	Mali	14.73
26	Gabon	14.44
27	Zimbabwe	13.06
28	Tunisia	12.37
29	Sub-Saharan Africa	12.28
30	Tanzania	12.09
31	Nigeria	10.48
32	Ethiopia	9.81
33	Algeria	9.41
34	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9.02
35	Chad	8.96
36	Benin	8.60
37	Mauritania	8.54
38	Madagascar	7.66
39	South Africa	7.37
40	Burundi	7.27
41	Central African Republic	7.24
42	Sudan	6.81
43	Ivory Coast	6.09
44	Niger	5.43
45	Swaziland	5.34
46	Botswana	5.13
47	Egypt	4.66
48	Guinea	4.59
49	Libya	4.30
50	Lesotho	4.12
51	Djibouti	3.76
52	Angola	3.62
53	Namibia	3.36
54	Burkina Faso	2.52

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Emigration rate of tertiary educated (% of total tertiary educated population) - Population - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators

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