Brain drain 12+ (%) - 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 12+: stock of skilled OECD foreign-born adults arrived in the destination country after age 12 as percent of skilled natives (i.e. emigrants arrived after age 12 + 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 12+ (%) - Migration and Remittances (2000)
1	Guyana	87.70
2	Grenada	83.70
3	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	83
4	Jamaica	82.90
5	Haiti	82
6	Trinidad and Tobago	76.60
7	St. Kitts and Nevis	76.30
8	Western Samoa	71.70
9	Tonga	70.40
10	St. Lucia	68.20
11	Antigua and Barbuda	63.40
12	Cape Verde	62.90
13	Gambia	62.50
14	Belize	61.50
15	Dominica	61.20
16	Barbados	59.70
17	Fiji	56.40
18	Bahamas	53.70
19	Seychelles	53.30
20	Malta	53.30
21	Mauritius	52.20
22	Sierra Leone	52.10
23	Ghana	46
24	Suriname	44.60
25	Mozambique	44.60
26	Liberia	43.80
27	Marshall Islands	39.40
28	Micronesia	37.40
29	Kenya	37
30	Lebanon	35.60
31	Uganda	33.70
32	Eritrea	33.20
33	Somalia	32.20
34	Angola	30.60
35	Laos	30.20
36	Cyprus	28.60
37	El Salvador	28.10
38	Nauru	28
39	Sri Lanka	27.60
40	Nicaragua	27.30
41	Ireland	27.20
42	Macedonia	26.90
43	Tuvalu	26.10
44	Rwanda	25.20
45	Palau	24.10
46	Vietnam	23.20
47	Bosnia and Herzegovina	23.20
48	Papua New Guinea	23.10
49	Cuba	22.90
50	Afghanistan	22.70
51	Honduras	22.20
52	Croatia	22.10
53	Kiribati	22
54	Guatemala	21.70
55	Guinea-Bissau	21.70
56	Sao Tome and Principe	21.50
57	Republic of the Congo	19.90
58	Comoros	19.50
59	Dominican Republic	19.20
60	Malawi	18.40
61	Iceland	18.30
62	Togo	17.80
63	New Zealand	16.90
64	San Marino	16.40
65	Portugal	16.40
66	Slovakia	15.90
67	Zambia	15.70
68	Cameroon	15.50
69	Senegal	15.50
70	Cambodia	14.80
71	Morocco	14.60
72	United Kingdom	14.30
73	Albania	14.10
74	Iran	13.70
75	Brunei	13.30
76	Poland	13
77	Singapore	12.70
78	Philippines	12.60
79	Mali	12.40
80	Panama	12.30
81	Mexico	12.30
82	Serbia	12.17
83	Equatorial Guinea	12
84	Democratic Republic of the Congo	11.90
85	Austria	11.80
86	Hungary	11.70
87	East Timor	11.70
88	Pakistan	11.60
89	Taiwan	11.60
90	Gabon	11.60
91	Tanzania	11.40
92	Romania	11.40
93	Zimbabwe	11.30
94	Slovenia	10.90
95	Mauritania	10.80
96	Estonia	10.80
97	Tunisia	10.60
98	Guinea	10.60
99	Nigeria	10.50
100	Greece	10.40
101	Iraq	10.40
102	Benin	10.20
103	Czech Republic	9.60
104	Malaysia	9.50
105	Ethiopia	9.40
106	Colombia	9.40
107	Djibouti	9.20
108	Armenia	8.50
109	Ecuador	8.40
110	Italy	8.20
111	Burundi	8.10
112	Netherlands	8.10
113	Algeria	7.80
114	Switzerland	7.80
115	Lithuania	7.80
116	Latvia	7.60
117	Luxembourg	7.10
118	Uruguay	7
119	Occupied Palest. Territory	6.80
120	Vanuatu	6.70
121	Denmark	6.70
122	Finland	6.70
123	Sudan	6.60
124	Bulgaria	6.60
125	Jordan	6.50
126	Kuwait	6.50
127	South Africa	6.50
128	Israel	6.30
129	Costa Rica	6
130	Madagascar	6
131	Andorra	5.80
132	Yemen	5.70
133	Syria	5.70
134	Norway	5.60
135	Central African Republic	5.60
136	Niger	5.40
137	Turkey	5.40
138	Peru	5.40
139	Chile	5.30
140	Bolivia	5.30
141	Nepal	5.20
142	Ivory Coast	5
143	Solomon Islands	5
144	North Korea	4.40
145	South Korea	4.40
146	Bahrain	4.30
147	Germany	4.30
148	Bangladesh	4.20
149	Egypt	4.20
150	Lesotho	4.10
151	India	4
152	Belgium	4
153	Burma	3.80
154	Sweden	3.80
155	Spain	3.70
156	China	3.60
157	Canada	3.50
158	Moldova	3.50
159	Ukraine	3.40
160	Paraguay	3.40
161	Namibia	3.10
162	Belarus	3.10
163	Botswana	3
164	Venezuela	3
165	France	2.90
166	Libya	2.30
167	Georgia	2.30
168	Qatar	2.30
169	Australia	2.30
170	Burkina Faso	2.20
171	Thailand	2.10
172	Brazil	2.10
173	Argentina	2.10
174	Chad	2.10
175	Azerbaijan	1.90
176	Indonesia	1.80
177	Russia	1.40
178	Kazakhstan	1.20
179	Montenegro	1.13
180	Maldives	1
181	Mongolia	1
182	Japan	0.90
183	United Arab Emirates	0.90
184	Saudi Arabia	0.80
185	Kyrgyzstan	0.70
186	Uzbekistan	0.70
187	Bhutan	0.60
188	Oman	0.60
189	Swaziland	0.40
190	Tajikistan	0.40
191	United States	0.40
192	Turkmenistan	0.20

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Brain drain 12+ (%) - Migration and Remittances

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