MDB (%) - Medical brain drain - Migration and Remittances

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Source: MODELING THE EFFECT OF PHYSICIAN EMIGRATION ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT By Alok Bhargava, Frederic Docquier and Yasser Moullan (February 2010)
This data set is part of a research project on "Brain drain, return migration and South-South migration: impact on labor markets and human capital" financially supported by the Austrian, German, Korean, and Norwegian governments through the Multi-donor Trust Fund on Labor Markets, Job Creation, and Economic Growth administered by the World Bank's Social Protection and Labor unit (contract 7152391).

Rank	Country	Percent (%)
MDB (%) - Medical brain drain - Migration and Remittances (2004)
1	Dominica	99.06
2	Grenada	98.98
3	St. Lucia	82.57
4	St. Kitts and Nevis	61.82
5	Ireland	54.30
6	Antigua and Barbuda	51.81
7	Liberia	51.22
8	Jamaica	49.94
9	Zimbabwe	45.41
10	Fiji	43.97
11	Barbados	41.18
12	Ghana	37.83
13	Iceland	35.78
14	Haiti	34.86
15	Sri Lanka	34.77
16	Uganda	34.31
17	South Africa	34.13
18	Malawi	31.80
19	Dominican Republic	30.64
20	Belize	28.14
21	Zambia	27.91
22	Malta	25.50
23	Papua New Guinea	25.48
24	New Zealand	24.82
25	Ethiopia	24.57
26	Somalia	22.98
27	Canada	21.91
28	Iraq	21.63
29	East Timor	19.34
30	Lebanon	19.20
31	Sudan	18.88
32	Philippines	17.42
33	Singapore	17.36
34	Syria	16.75
35	Trinidad and Tobago	15.25
36	Tanzania	14.62
37	Pakistan	14.31
38	Australia	13.80
39	Rwanda	13.60
40	Libya	13.15
41	Nigeria	13.02
42	Israel	12.53
43	United Kingdom	12.48
44	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12.23
45	India	11.56
46	Thailand	11.53
47	Togo	11.48
48	Burma	11.23
49	Democratic Republic of the Congo	11.05
50	Cameroon	10.87
51	Angola	10.66
52	Malaysia	9.84
53	Jordan	9.83
54	Estonia	9.44
55	Greece	9.30
56	Guinea	8.91
57	Sierra Leone	8.88
58	Nepal	8.81
59	Romania	8.71
60	Republic of the Congo	8.71
61	Iran	8.68
62	Taiwan	8.55
63	Belgium	8.42
64	Afghanistan	8.37
65	Switzerland	8.32
66	Kenya	8.26
67	Mexico	7.84
68	Serbia	7.59
69	Netherlands	7.52
70	Hungary	7.23
71	Croatia	6.73
72	Austria	6.69
73	Bangladesh	6.64
74	North Korea	6.56
75	South Korea	6.56
76	Sweden	6.41
77	Senegal	6.36
78	Mozambique	6.25
79	Poland	6.16
80	Spain	6.13
81	Suriname	6.05
82	Costa Rica	5.95
83	Benin	5.90
84	Panama	5.86
85	Peru	5.79
86	Bolivia	5.63
87	Egypt	5.62
88	Burundi	5.59
89	Guatemala	5.42
90	Colombia	5.22
91	Chile	5.20
92	Seychelles	5.16
93	Finland	5.16
94	Morocco	5.11
95	Germany	4.75
96	Denmark	4.64
97	United Arab Emirates	4.56
98	El Salvador	4.52
99	Guyana	4.39
100	Vietnam	4.33
101	Bahrain	4.22
102	Algeria	4.18
103	Bulgaria	3.96
104	Kuwait	3.77
105	Paraguay	3.76
106	Latvia	3.70
107	Tunisia	3.57
108	Czech Republic	3.55
109	Central African Republic	3.45
110	Nicaragua	3.26
111	Italy	3.21
112	Cambodia	3.20
113	Slovakia	3.16
114	Cuba	3.15
115	Turkey	3.11
116	Lithuania	3.02
117	Argentina	3
118	Norway	2.95
119	Honduras	2.89
120	Ecuador	2.88
121	Venezuela	2.65
122	Armenia	2.59
123	Portugal	2.45
124	Uruguay	2.41
125	Macedonia	2.39
126	Albania	2.29
127	Comoros	2.20
128	Slovenia	2.18
129	France	2.14
130	Luxembourg	2.10
131	Madagascar	2
132	Mali	1.70
133	Yemen	1.57
134	Moldova	1.39
135	Indonesia	1.37
136	Chad	1.36
137	Saudi Arabia	1.36
138	Ukraine	1.26
139	Gabon	1.01
140	Japan	0.97
141	Georgia	0.92
142	Ivory Coast	0.91
143	Russia	0.83
144	Equatorial Guinea	0.82
145	Mauritius	0.76
146	Laos	0.72
147	Montenegro	0.705
148	Brazil	0.65
149	Oman	0.61
150	Occupied Palestinian Territory	0.59
151	Andorra	0.58
152	Swaziland	0.55
153	Belarus	0.54
154	Burkina Faso	0.49
155	Uzbekistan	0.41
156	Tajikistan	0.40
157	Azerbaijan	0.39
158	Kazakhstan	0.32
159	Mongolia	0.27
160	China	0.26
161	United States	0.20
162	Kyrgyzstan	0.14
163	Niger	0.13
164	Turkmenistan	0.02
165	Botswana	0
166	Cape Verde	0
167	Bhutan	0
168	Bahamas	0
169	Maldives	0
170	Kiribati	0
171	Gambia	0
172	Namibia	0
173	Qatar	0
174	Tonga	0
175	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0
176	Marshall Islands	0
177	Western Samoa	0
178	Lesotho	0
179	Tuvalu	0
180	Brunei	0
181	San Marino	0
182	Sao Tome and Principe	0
183	Nauru	0
184	Djibouti	0
185	Solomon Islands	0
186	Guinea-Bissau	0
187	Vanuatu	0
188	Cyprus	0
189	Palau	0
190	Mauritania	0
191	Micronesia	0
192	Eritrea	0

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