Brain drain 0+ (%) - Migration and Remittances

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This dataset, a product of the Trade Team - Development Research Group, is part of a larger effort in the group to measure the extent of the brain drain as part of the International Migration and Development Program (World Bank contract PO. 7641476)

Brain drain 0+: stock of skilled OECD foreign-born adults by country of origin as percent of skilled natives (i.e. emigrants + adult residents). This upper-bound measure is taken from Docquier and Marfouk (2006).
The methodology is explained in: Beine, Michel, Frederic Docquier and Hillel Rapoport (2006), Measuring international skilled migration: new estimates controlling for age of entry, Policy Research Discussion Paper, World Bank.

Rank	Country	Percent (%)
Brain drain 0+ (%) - Migration and Remittances (2000)
1	Guyana	89
2	Grenada	85.10
3	Jamaica	85.10
4	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	84.50
5	Haiti	83.60
6	Trinidad and Tobago	79.30
7	St. Kitts and Nevis	78.50
8	Western Samoa	76.40
9	Tonga	75.20
10	St. Lucia	71.10
11	Cape Verde	67.40
12	Antigua and Barbuda	66.80
13	Belize	65.50
14	Dominica	64.20
15	Barbados	63.50
16	Gambia	63.20
17	Fiji	62.20
18	Bahamas	61.30
19	Malta	57.60
20	Mauritius	56.10
21	Seychelles	55.80
22	Sierra Leone	52.50
23	Suriname	47.90
24	Ghana	46.80
25	Mozambique	45.10
26	Liberia	45
27	Marshall Islands	39.40
28	Lebanon	38.60
29	Kenya	38.40
30	Micronesia	37.80
31	Laos	37.40
32	Uganda	35.60
33	Nauru	34.50
34	Eritrea	34
35	Cyprus	33.20
36	Angola	33
37	Somalia	32.60
38	El Salvador	31
39	Nicaragua	29.60
40	Sri Lanka	29.60
41	Ireland	29.50
42	Macedonia	29.10
43	Cuba	28.70
44	Papua New Guinea	28.50
45	Tuvalu	27.30
46	Vietnam	27.10
47	Palau	26.10
48	Rwanda	25.80
49	Honduras	24.40
50	Guinea-Bissau	24.40
51	Guatemala	24.20
52	Croatia	24.10
53	Bosnia and Herzegovina	23.90
54	Afghanistan	23.30
55	Kiribati	23.10
56	Republic of the Congo	22.20
57	Sao Tome and Principe	22
58	Comoros	21.90
59	Dominican Republic	21.60
60	New Zealand	20.70
61	Iceland	19.60
62	Portugal	19.50
63	Malawi	18.70
64	Togo	18.70
65	Cambodia	18.30
66	Senegal	17.70
67	Cameroon	17.20
68	San Marino	17.10
69	Morocco	17
70	Zambia	16.80
71	United Kingdom	16.70
72	Slovakia	16.70
73	Panama	16
74	Brunei	15.60
75	East Timor	15.50
76	Mexico	15.30
77	Singapore	15.20
78	Mali	15
79	Gabon	14.70
80	Iran	14.50
81	Albania	14.30
82	Poland	14.10
83	Democratic Republic of the Congo	13.70
84	Philippines	13.70
85	Austria	13.50
86	Hungary	13.20
87	Equatorial Guinea	12.90
88	Taiwan	12.70
89	Zimbabwe	12.70
90	Tunisia	12.60
91	Pakistan	12.60
92	Serbia	12.54
93	Tanzania	12.30
94	Greece	12
95	Romania	11.90
96	Mauritania	11.70
97	Slovenia	11.50
98	Estonia	11.50
99	Benin	11.30
100	Iraq	11.20
101	Guinea	11.20
102	Malaysia	11.10
103	Djibouti	11
104	Nigeria	10.70
105	Czech Republic	10.40
106	Colombia	10.40
107	Italy	10
108	Ethiopia	10
109	Netherlands	9.60
110	Ecuador	9.50
111	Algeria	9.40
112	Armenia	9
113	Switzerland	8.90
114	Latvia	8.80
115	Lithuania	8.60
116	Burundi	8.50
117	Vanuatu	8.20
118	Uruguay	8.10
119	Luxembourg	8
120	Israel	7.90
121	Denmark	7.70
122	Madagascar	7.60
123	South Africa	7.50
124	Finland	7.50
125	Occupied Palest. Territory	7.20
126	Jordan	7.20
127	Costa Rica	7.20
128	Central African Republic	7.10
129	Kuwait	7.10
130	Sudan	7
131	Andorra	6.90
132	Bulgaria	6.80
133	Norway	6.50
134	Solomon Islands	6.40
135	Syria	6.10
136	Chile	6.10
137	Yemen	6
138	Niger	6
139	Bolivia	5.80
140	Turkey	5.80
141	Peru	5.80
142	Ivory Coast	5.70
143	South Korea	5.60
144	North Korea	5.60
145	Nepal	5.30
146	Germany	5.20
147	Bahrain	4.90
148	Belgium	4.90
149	Egypt	4.60
150	Canada	4.60
151	Bangladesh	4.30
152	Lesotho	4.30
153	Spain	4.30
154	India	4.30
155	Sweden	4.30
156	Burma	4
157	Paraguay	3.90
158	China	3.80
159	Moldova	3.60
160	Botswana	3.60
161	Ukraine	3.60
162	Namibia	3.40
163	France	3.40
164	Venezuela	3.40
165	Belarus	3.20
166	Australia	2.70
167	Burkina Faso	2.60
168	Qatar	2.50
169	Argentina	2.50
170	Libya	2.40
171	Chad	2.40
172	Thailand	2.40
173	Brazil	2.30
174	Georgia	2.30
175	Indonesia	2.10
176	Azerbaijan	2
177	Russia	1.50
178	Maldives	1.20
179	Kazakhstan	1.20
180	Japan	1.20
181	Montenegro	1.16
182	Mongolia	1.10
183	United Arab Emirates	1
184	Saudi Arabia	0.90
185	Kyrgyzstan	0.70
186	Uzbekistan	0.70
187	Oman	0.60
188	Bhutan	0.60
189	United States	0.50
190	Swaziland	0.50
191	Tajikistan	0.40
192	Turkmenistan	0.20

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Brain drain 0+ (%) - Migration and Remittances

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