Table 1

Physicians born in Africa appearing in census of nine receiving countries circa 2000



Receiving country
Total abroad
Frac.*





Sending country
Domestic
GBR
USA
FRA
CAN
AUS
PRT
ESP
BEL
ZAF



Algeria
13,639
45
50
10,594
10
0
2
60
99
0
10,860
44%
Angola
881
16
0
5
25
0
2,006
14
5
31
2,102
70%
Benin
405
0
4
206
0
0
0
1
13
0
224
36%
Botswana
530
28
10
0
0
3
0
0
1
26
68
11%
Burkina Faso
314
0
0
77
0
0
0
0
1
0
78
20%
Burundi
230
5
0
53
10
3
0
1
55
9
136
37%
Cameroon
1,007
49
170
332
20
0
0
4
267
3
845
46%
Cape Verde
202
0
15
10
0
0
186
0
0
0
211
51%
Cent. Afr. Rep.
120
0
0
79
0
0
2
1
5
0
87
42%
Chad
248
0
0
69
0
0
0
0
1
0
70
22%
Comoros
50
0
0
20
0
0
0
0
1
3
24
32%
Congo, DR
5,647
37
90
139
35
0
42
4
107
98
552
9%
Congo, Rep.
670
11
15
468
0
0
49
4
65
135
747
53%
Cote d'Ivoire
1,763
0
10
262
0
0
0
1
8
3
284
14%
Djibouti
86
0
0
25
0
0
0
0
1
0
26
23%
Egypt
143,555
1,465
3,830
471
750
535
1
17
31
19
7,119
5%
Eq. Guinea
47
0
0
4
0
0
1
76
0
0
81
63%
Eritrea
173
18
55
0
20
5
0
0
0
0
98
36%
Ethiopia
1,310
65
420
16
30
9
1
1
2
9
553
30%
Gabon
368
0
0
61
0
0
0
0
4
0
65
15%
Gambia
40
16
30
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
46
53%
Ghana
1,294
590
850
16
95
0
0
4
2
82
1,639
56%
Guinea
898
3
15
69
10
0
0
11
7
0
115
11%
Guinea-Bissau
103
0
15
75
0
0
160
0
1
0
251
71%
Kenya
3,855
2,733
865
0
180
110
1
4
1
81
3,975
51%
Lesotho
114
8
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
49
57
33%
Liberia
73
10
105
5
0
0
0
5
1
0
126
63%
Libya
6,371
349
120
20
75
5
0
9
7
0
585
8%
Madagascar
1,428
6
30
878
0
0
0
0
6
0
920
39%
Malawi
200
191
40
0
0
10
2
1
1
48
293
59%
Mali
529
0
15
138
0
0
0
0
4
0
157
23%
Mauritania
333
0
10
28
0
0
0
4
1
0
43
11%
Mauritius
960
294
35
307
110
36
1
0
20
19
822
46%
Morocco
14,293
33
225
5,113
70
4
9
833
213
6
6,506
31%
Mozambique
435
16
20
0
10
3
1,218
4
2
61
1,334
75%
Namibia
466
37
15
0
30
9
0
0
0
291
382
45%
Niger
386
0
10
23
0
0
0
1
3
0
37
9%
Nigeria
30,885
1,997
2,510
29
120
0
1
13
6
180
4,856
14%
Rwanda
155
4
25
8
0
0
1
0
70
10
118
43%
Sao Tome & P.
63
0
0
0
0
0
96
1
0
0
97
61%
Senegal
640
0
40
603
10
0
1
9
12
3
678
51%
Seychelles
120
29
0
4
10
3
0
0
0
4
50
29%
Sierra Leone
338
118
115
9
0
0
0
0
3
4
249
42%
Somalia
310
53
70
0
25
3
0
0
0
0
151
33%
South Africa
27,551
3,509
1,950
16
1,545
1,111
61
5
0
-834**
7,363
21%
Sudan
4,973
606
65
17
15
40
0
1
4
10
758
13%
Swaziland
133
4
4
0
0
0
1
0
0
44
53
28%
Tanzania
1,264
743
270
4
240
54
1
1
3
40
1,356
52%
Togo
265
0
10
168
0
0
0
0
2
0
180
40%
Tunisia
6,459
16
30
3,072
10
0
0
4
60
0
3,192
33%
Uganda
2,429
1,136
290
1
165
61
1
1
3
179
1,837
43%
Zambia
670
465
130
0
40
39
3
0
3
203
883
57%
Zimbabwe
1,530
553
235
0
55
97
12
1
6
643
1,602
51%













Africa
280,808
15,258
12,813
23,494
3,715
2,140
3,859
1,096
1,107
1,459
64,941
19%
Sub-Saharan
96,405
13,350
8,558
4,199
2,800
1,596
3,847
173
696
1,434
36,653
28%

Sources: See Acknowledgements. African sending countries show country of birth as recorded in the receiving-country census. Receiving countries show country of residence at the time of the last census (France [FRA] 1999; United States [USA] 2000; Australia [AUS], Belgium [BEL], Canada [CAN], Portugal [PRT], South Africa [ZAF], Spain [ESP], and United Kingdom [GBR] 2001). The copyright to some of the data in this table is retained by the source agency; see appendix for details before reproducing these data elsewhere. All data used here with written permission. *Gives the number of professionals abroad as a fraction of total professionals (domestic + abroad). **There are 834 physicians born in one of the other eight receiving countries who appear in the 2001 census of South Africa. This negative number thus represents a "netting out" term.

The full contents of this table are available in an Excel workbook from the Center for Global Development website [17].

Clemens and Pettersson Human Resources for Health 2008 6:1   doi:10.1186/1478-4491-6-1