Brain drain 22+ (%) - 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 22+: stock of skilled OECD foreign-born adults arrived in the destination country after age 22 as percent of skilled natives (i.e. emigrants arrived after age 22 + 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 22+ (%) - Migration and Remittances (2000)
1	Guyana	81.90
2	Grenada	76.90
3	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	75.10
4	Jamaica	74.60
5	Haiti	73.70
6	Trinidad and Tobago	67.50
7	St. Kitts and Nevis	65.30
8	Western Samoa	60.90
9	Gambia	60.40
10	St. Lucia	59.20
11	Tonga	58.80
12	Cape Verde	55.50
13	Dominica	51.20
14	Antigua and Barbuda	49.60
15	Sierra Leone	48.40
16	Seychelles	47.50
17	Barbados	47.50
18	Belize	47
19	Mauritius	45.10
20	Fiji	44.50
21	Malta	44.10
22	Mozambique	43.70
23	Ghana	42.30
24	Bahamas	42.30
25	Marshall Islands	39.20
26	Liberia	37.70
27	Suriname	36.70
28	Micronesia	34.80
29	Kenya	33.40
30	Uganda	30.70
31	Somalia	29.90
32	Eritrea	27.90
33	Lebanon	27.40
34	Angola	26.40
35	Macedonia	24.10
36	Sri Lanka	24.10
37	Rwanda	23.90
38	Tuvalu	23.80
39	Ireland	23.30
40	Bosnia and Herzegovina	21.90
41	Laos	21.90
42	Cyprus	21.30
43	Kiribati	20.70
44	Afghanistan	20.40
45	Sao Tome and Principe	20
46	Nauru	19.80
47	Nicaragua	19.40
48	Croatia	18.90
49	Guinea-Bissau	18.70
50	Palau	18.50
51	El Salvador	18.30
52	Malawi	18
53	Republic of the Congo	17.80
54	Papua New Guinea	17.10
55	Cuba	17
56	Vietnam	15.80
57	Iceland	15.80
58	Honduras	15.20
59	Togo	15
60	San Marino	14.90
61	Zambia	14.50
62	Slovakia	14.40
63	Guatemala	14.10
64	New Zealand	13.70
65	Albania	13.20
66	Comoros	13.10
67	Portugal	13.10
68	Dominican Republic	12.80
69	Senegal	12.50
70	Cameroon	12.30
71	Morocco	12.10
72	United Kingdom	11.70
73	Serbia	11.25
74	Poland	11.20
75	Iran	10.40
76	Democratic Republic of the Congo	10.30
77	Philippines	10.30
78	Romania	10.20
79	Equatorial Guinea	10.20
80	Mali	9.80
81	Guinea	9.80
82	Singapore	9.70
83	Taiwan	9.70
84	Tanzania	9.70
85	Brunei	9.70
86	Austria	9.60
87	Mauritania	9.60
88	Cambodia	9.60
89	Slovenia	9.50
90	Estonia	9.40
91	Pakistan	9.40
92	Hungary	9.30
93	Nigeria	9.20
94	Zimbabwe	8.90
95	Iraq	8.90
96	Panama	8.50
97	Tunisia	8.50
98	Czech Republic	8.40
99	Gabon	8.40
100	Greece	8.30
101	East Timor	7.90
102	Mexico	7.80
103	Benin	7.70
104	Djibouti	7.50
105	Burundi	7.40
106	Colombia	7.40
107	Ethiopia	7.30
108	Armenia	7.10
109	Malaysia	6.90
110	Lithuania	6.70
111	Switzerland	6.60
112	Netherlands	6.50
113	Ecuador	6.20
114	Bulgaria	6.20
115	Algeria	6.10
116	Italy	6.10
117	Latvia	6
118	Occupied Palest. Territory	6
119	Sudan	5.90
120	Luxembourg	5.80
121	South Africa	5.50
122	Denmark	5.50
123	Finland	5.30
124	Uruguay	5.30
125	Yemen	4.90
126	Turkey	4.90
127	Vanuatu	4.70
128	Israel	4.70
129	Nepal	4.70
130	Niger	4.70
131	Andorra	4.60
132	Syria	4.60
133	Norway	4.40
134	Madagascar	4.40
135	Jordan	4.40
136	Chile	4.30
137	Peru	4.30
138	Ivory Coast	4.30
139	Central African Republic	4.10
140	Costa Rica	4
141	Bolivia	4
142	Lesotho	3.90
143	Kuwait	3.90
144	Bangladesh	3.60
145	Burma	3.60
146	North Korea	3.50
147	Bahrain	3.50
148	Egypt	3.50
149	Solomon Islands	3.50
150	South Korea	3.50
151	India	3.40
152	Moldova	3.30
153	Belgium	3.20
154	Sweden	3.20
155	Germany	3.20
156	China	3.10
157	Spain	3.10
158	Ukraine	3.10
159	Belarus	2.90
160	Paraguay	2.70
161	Namibia	2.70
162	Canada	2.60
163	France	2.40
164	Venezuela	2.30
165	Botswana	2.30
166	Libya	2.10
167	Georgia	2.10
168	Australia	2
169	Qatar	1.90
170	Brazil	1.90
171	Azerbaijan	1.80
172	Argentina	1.80
173	Burkina Faso	1.80
174	Chad	1.70
175	Thailand	1.70
176	Indonesia	1.40
177	Russia	1.30
178	Kazakhstan	1.10
179	Montenegro	1.05
180	Mongolia	1
181	Maldives	0.80
182	Japan	0.70
183	United Arab Emirates	0.70
184	Kyrgyzstan	0.70
185	Uzbekistan	0.60
186	Saudi Arabia	0.60
187	Bhutan	0.60
188	Oman	0.50
189	Swaziland	0.40
190	Tajikistan	0.40
191	United States	0.30
192	Turkmenistan	0.20

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Brain drain 22+ (%) - Migration and Remittances

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