Brain drain 18+ (%) - 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 18+: stock of skilled OECD foreign-born adults arrived in the destination country after age 18 as percent of skilled natives (i.e. emigrants arrived after age 18 + 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 18+ (%) - Migration and Remittances (2000)
1	Guyana	85.40
2	Grenada	81.20
3	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	79.80
4	Jamaica	78.90
5	Haiti	78.30
6	Trinidad and Tobago	73
7	St. Kitts and Nevis	72
8	Western Samoa	66.40
9	Tonga	65.10
10	St. Lucia	64.80
11	Gambia	62.10
12	Cape Verde	59.40
13	Antigua and Barbuda	57.80
14	Dominica	57.40
15	Belize	54.80
16	Barbados	53.80
17	Sierra Leone	51.10
18	Seychelles	51
19	Fiji	50.90
20	Malta	49.70
21	Mauritius	49.40
22	Bahamas	47.70
23	Ghana	44.90
24	Mozambique	44.40
25	Suriname	42.60
26	Liberia	41
27	Marshall Islands	39.30
28	Micronesia	36.90
29	Kenya	35.70
30	Uganda	32.70
31	Lebanon	32.50
32	Eritrea	31.70
33	Somalia	31.40
34	Angola	29.20
35	Cyprus	26.30
36	Sri Lanka	26.10
37	Ireland	26
38	Macedonia	25.90
39	Laos	25.70
40	Tuvalu	25.50
41	Rwanda	24.70
42	Nauru	23.40
43	El Salvador	23.30
44	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22.90
45	Nicaragua	22.80
46	Palau	22.30
47	Afghanistan	21.50
48	Kiribati	21.20
49	Sao Tome and Principe	21.20
50	Croatia	20.70
51	Guinea-Bissau	20.50
52	Papua New Guinea	19.80
53	Cuba	19.40
54	Republic of the Congo	19.20
55	Vietnam	19
56	Honduras	18.90
57	Guatemala	18.40
58	Malawi	18.20
59	Iceland	17.40
60	Comoros	17.30
61	Togo	16.90
62	San Marino	15.90
63	New Zealand	15.80
64	Dominican Republic	15.70
65	Slovakia	15.40
66	Zambia	15.10
67	Portugal	14.70
68	Cameroon	14.60
69	Senegal	14.10
70	Albania	13.90
71	Morocco	13.40
72	United Kingdom	13
73	Iran	12.20
74	Poland	12.20
75	Serbia	11.80
76	Philippines	11.60
77	Brunei	11.50
78	Mali	11.50
79	Cambodia	11.50
80	Equatorial Guinea	11.50
81	Singapore	11.40
82	Democratic Republic of the Congo	11.20
83	Austria	10.90
84	Pakistan	10.80
85	Hungary	10.80
86	Romania	10.80
87	Tanzania	10.60
88	Slovenia	10.50
89	Mauritania	10.50
90	Taiwan	10.50
91	Guinea	10.30
92	Zimbabwe	10.30
93	Estonia	10.30
94	Panama	10.20
95	Nigeria	10.20
96	Gabon	10
97	Mexico	9.80
98	Iraq	9.70
99	Tunisia	9.60
100	East Timor	9.50
101	Greece	9.30
102	Benin	9.20
103	Czech Republic	9.20
104	Ethiopia	8.70
105	Colombia	8.50
106	Malaysia	8.40
107	Djibouti	8.30
108	Burundi	7.90
109	Armenia	7.80
110	Switzerland	7.40
111	Lithuania	7.30
112	Netherlands	7.30
113	Ecuador	7.30
114	Italy	7.10
115	Algeria	6.90
116	Luxembourg	6.70
117	Latvia	6.60
118	Bulgaria	6.50
119	Occupied Palest. Territory	6.50
120	Sudan	6.30
121	Denmark	6.30
122	Finland	6.20
123	Uruguay	6.20
124	South Africa	5.90
125	Vanuatu	5.80
126	Jordan	5.70
127	Israel	5.50
128	Andorra	5.40
129	Yemen	5.40
130	Kuwait	5.30
131	Syria	5.30
132	Turkey	5.20
133	Norway	5.20
134	Madagascar	5.10
135	Costa Rica	5
136	Nepal	5
137	Niger	5
138	Peru	4.90
139	Chile	4.80
140	Bolivia	4.80
141	Central African Republic	4.70
142	Ivory Coast	4.60
143	Lesotho	4.10
144	Solomon Islands	4.10
145	Bangladesh	4
146	Bahrain	3.90
147	South Korea	3.90
148	North Korea	3.90
149	India	3.90
150	Egypt	3.90
151	Germany	3.80
152	Burma	3.70
153	Sweden	3.60
154	Belgium	3.60
155	Moldova	3.50
156	Spain	3.40
157	China	3.30
158	Ukraine	3.30
159	Paraguay	3.10
160	Belarus	3
161	Canada	3
162	Namibia	2.90
163	Botswana	2.70
164	Venezuela	2.70
165	France	2.60
166	Libya	2.20
167	Georgia	2.20
168	Australia	2.20
169	Qatar	2.10
170	Burkina Faso	2
171	Brazil	2
172	Argentina	2
173	Azerbaijan	1.90
174	Chad	1.90
175	Thailand	1.90
176	Indonesia	1.70
177	Russia	1.30
178	Kazakhstan	1.10
179	Montenegro	1.10
180	Mongolia	1
181	Maldives	0.90
182	United Arab Emirates	0.80
183	Japan	0.80
184	Saudi Arabia	0.70
185	Uzbekistan	0.70
186	Kyrgyzstan	0.70
187	Bhutan	0.60
188	Oman	0.50
189	Swaziland	0.40
190	United States	0.40
191	Tajikistan	0.40
192	Turkmenistan	0.20

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Brain drain 18+ (%) - Migration and Remittances

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