New data on African health professionals abroad

Clemens, Michael A; Pettersson, Gunilla

doi:10.1186/1478-4491-6-1

Human Resources for Health

Table 2 Professional nurses born in Africa appearing in census of nine receiving countries circa 2000

From: New data on African health professionals abroad

		Receiving country									Total abroad	Frac.*
Sending country	Domestic	GBR	USA	FRA	CAN	AUS	PRT	ESP	BEL	ZAF
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%

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].

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