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Professional nurses born in Africa appearing in census of nine receiving countries circa 2000 |
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| Receiving country |
Total abroad |
Frac.* |
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| Sending country |
Domestic |
GBR |
USA |
FRA |
CAN |
AUS |
PRT |
ESP |
BEL |
ZAF |
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| Algeria |
83,022 |
37 |
138 |
7,953 |
40 |
6 |
1 |
26 |
44 |
0 |
8,245 |
9% |
| Angola |
13,135 |
22 |
135 |
12 |
10 |
4 |
1,639 |
8 |
11 |
0 |
1,841 |
12% |
| Benin |
1,315 |
4 |
28 |
155 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
187 |
12% |
| Botswana |
3,556 |
47 |
28 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
80 |
2% |
| Burkina Faso |
3,097 |
0 |
14 |
50 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
11 |
0 |
76 |
2% |
| Burundi |
38 |
10 |
14 |
1 |
25 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
83 |
0 |
134 |
78% |
| Cameroon |
4,998 |
118 |
664 |
343 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
33 |
0 |
1,163 |
19% |
| Cape Verde |
355 |
0 |
91 |
25 |
0 |
0 |
128 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
244 |
41% |
| Cent. Afr. Rep. |
300 |
3 |
6 |
85 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
99 |
25% |
| Chad |
1,054 |
0 |
21 |
110 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
131 |
11% |
| Comoros |
231 |
0 |
6 |
64 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
70 |
23% |
| Congo, DR |
16,969 |
44 |
207 |
206 |
50 |
0 |
9 |
4 |
1,761 |
7 |
2,288 |
12% |
| Congo, Rep. |
4,933 |
28 |
114 |
369 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
4 |
122 |
9 |
660 |
12% |
| Cote d'Ivoire |
7,233 |
0 |
185 |
302 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
22 |
0 |
509 |
7% |
| Djibouti |
424 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
2% |
| Egypt |
187,017 |
108 |
661 |
89 |
45 |
87 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
992 |
1% |
| Eq. Guinea |
162 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
98 |
0 |
0 |
98 |
38% |
| Eritrea |
811 |
27 |
384 |
0 |
75 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
497 |
38% |
| Ethiopia |
5,342 |
61 |
888 |
16 |
75 |
37 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1,077 |
17% |
| Gabon |
1,554 |
0 |
14 |
93 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
107 |
6% |
| Gambia |
144 |
57 |
221 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
282 |
66% |
| Ghana |
14,972 |
2,381 |
2,101 |
1 |
275 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
6 |
4,766 |
24% |
| Guinea |
3,847 |
0 |
171 |
53 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
27 |
6 |
0 |
267 |
6% |
| Guinea-Bissau |
799 |
5 |
0 |
45 |
0 |
0 |
212 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
262 |
25% |
| Kenya |
26,267 |
1,336 |
765 |
4 |
135 |
110 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
22 |
2,372 |
8% |
| Lesotho |
1,266 |
5 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
25 |
36 |
3% |
| Liberia |
185 |
28 |
773 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
807 |
81% |
| Libya |
17,779 |
72 |
299 |
1 |
10 |
7 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
391 |
2% |
| Madagascar |
3,088 |
4 |
43 |
1,096 |
10 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
17 |
0 |
1,171 |
28% |
| Malawi |
1,871 |
171 |
171 |
0 |
10 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
11 |
377 |
17% |
| Mali |
1,501 |
0 |
57 |
208 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
265 |
15% |
| Mauritania |
1,580 |
0 |
21 |
94 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
117 |
7% |
| Mauritius |
2,629 |
4,042 |
107 |
86 |
75 |
195 |
1 |
0 |
22 |
3 |
4,531 |
63% |
| Morocco |
29,462 |
47 |
276 |
3,707 |
60 |
4 |
5 |
560 |
517 |
0 |
5,176 |
15% |
| Mozambique |
3,664 |
12 |
64 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
748 |
2 |
6 |
11 |
853 |
19% |
| Namibia |
2,654 |
18 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
118 |
152 |
5% |
| Niger |
2,668 |
0 |
28 |
38 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
66 |
2% |
| Nigeria |
94,747 |
3,415 |
8,954 |
24 |
160 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
6 |
12 |
12,579 |
12% |
| Rwanda |
1,805 |
13 |
85 |
24 |
20 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
144 |
0 |
292 |
14% |
| Sao Tome & P. |
172 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
141 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
149 |
46% |
| Senegal |
1,887 |
3 |
102 |
584 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
695 |
27% |
| Seychelles |
422 |
80 |
28 |
8 |
30 |
29 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
175 |
29% |
| Sierra Leone |
1,524 |
747 |
696 |
4 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1,457 |
49% |
| Somalia |
1,486 |
76 |
47 |
8 |
30 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
164 |
10% |
| South Africa |
90,986 |
2,884 |
877 |
20 |
275 |
955 |
58 |
3 |
33 |
-261** |
4,844 |
5% |
| Sudan |
26,730 |
42 |
85 |
12 |
20 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
166 |
1% |
| Swaziland |
3,345 |
21 |
36 |
0 |
10 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
25 |
96 |
3% |
| Tanzania |
26,023 |
446 |
228 |
0 |
240 |
32 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
953 |
4% |
| Togo |
782 |
10 |
36 |
140 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
186 |
19% |
| Tunisia |
26,389 |
11 |
64 |
1,365 |
20 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
17 |
0 |
1,478 |
5% |
| Uganda |
9,851 |
714 |
291 |
0 |
75 |
29 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
12 |
1,122 |
10% |
| Zambia |
10,987 |
664 |
299 |
0 |
25 |
68 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
52 |
1,110 |
9% |
| Zimbabwe |
11,640 |
2,834 |
440 |
0 |
35 |
219 |
14 |
3 |
0 |
178 |
3,723 |
24% |
| Africa |
758,698 |
20,647 |
20,983 |
17,421 |
1,865 |
1,828 |
2,977 |
763 |
2,872 |
239 |
69,589 |
8% |
| Sub-Saharan |
414,605 |
20,372 |
19,545 |
4,297 |
1,690 |
1,724 |
2,971 |
172 |
2,294 |
239 |
53,298 |
11% |
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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 261 professional nurses 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 |
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