Table 1

Supply of foreign(-trained) physicians in selected OECD member countries
Australia (1998): 21.4% of foreign-trained physicians, of those:
 Austria (2001): 3.3% of foreign physicians, of those:
United Kingdom
 39.0%

Germany
 84.3%

Asia
 28.0%

Italy
 7.3%

New Zealand
 12%





Other countries
 21%





Belgium (2001): 7.8% of foreign physicians, of those:
 Canada (1998): 20% of foreign-trained physicians, of those:
Netherlands
 28.0%

United Kingdom
 32%

Italy
 17.7%

South Africa
 9.7%

United Kingdom
 16.5%

India
 9.6%

France
 16.4%

Eastern Europe
 8.5%

Slovak Republic
 12.4%

Western Europe
 8.2%

Africa
 9.0%





Denmark (2001): 7.8% of foreign physicians, of those:
 France (2000): 2.2% of foreign physicians, of those:
Norway
 50.0%

Europe
 49.0%

Spain
 24.7%

North-Africa
 33.0%

Germany
 20.1%

Sub-Saharan Africa
 7.0%

United States
 5.2%

Middle East
 5.0%

Germany (2000): 3.5% of foreign physicians, of those:
 Ireland (2001): 13.1% of foreign physicians, of those:
EU countries
 27.5%

United Kingdom
 29.2%
 France
 3.2%
Other European countries
 37%

EU countries
 13.6%
 Italy
 3.2%
Non-European countries
 35.5%

Germany
 6.0%
 Canada
 3.1%




Australia
 4.2%
 Central and Eastern Europe
 3.1%




United States
 3.4%
 Others
 31.2%
Norway (2001): 11.2% of foreign physicians, of those:
 Switzerland (2001): 19.1% of foreign physicians, of those:
Germany
 32.7%
 United Kingdom
 6.2%
 Germany
 59.7%
 Italy
 4.8%
Sweden
 19.9%
 Iceland
 6.1%
 Yugoslavia
 13.1%
 Albania
 4.0%
Denmark
 15.8%
 Finland
 5.3%
 Belgium
 7.4%
 Spain
 3.2%
Central and Eastern Europe
 11.5%
 Netherlands
 2.4%
 Sweden
 4.9%
 Argentina
 2.9%
United Kingdom (2001): 12.6% of foreign physicians, of those:
 United States (2001): 27% of foreign-trained physicians, of those:
India
 18.3%
 South America
 2.4%
 India
 19.5%

Ireland
 15.2%
 Ukraine
 1.7%
 Pakistan
 11.9%

South Africa
 7.0%
 Poland
 1.6%
 Philippines
 8.8%

Other Africa
 7.0%
 Australia
 1.6%
 Ex-U.S.S.R.
 3.1%

South and South-Eastern Asia
 7.0%
 Belgium
 1.6%
 Egypt
 2.6%

Northern Africa
 5.3%
 China
 1.6%
 Dominican Republic
 2.5%

Greece
 4.7%
 Denmark
 1.5%
 Syria
 2.5%

Pakistan
 4.4%
 France
 1.5%
 United Kingdom
 2.4%

Germany
 4.0%
 Western Asia
 1.5%
 Germany
 2.3%

Algeria
 3.6%
 Italy
 1.4%
 Mexico
 1.8%

Iraq
 3.1%
 Bosnia Herzegovina
 1.4%



Spain
 2.6%





Sources: EUROSTAT Labour Force Survey, [17-21].

Forcier et al. Human Resources for Health 2004 2:12   doi:10.1186/1478-4491-2-12

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