The metrics and correlates of physician migration from Africa

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Top five African birth countries of foreign physicians registered in different destination countries, ranked by number of physician émigrés, emigration fraction, and physician migration density (in descending order)

Destination countries	Source Countries
	Total number of physician émigrés^a	Emigration fraction^b	Physician migration density^c
UK
	South Africa	Malawi	Seychelles
	Kenya	Kenya	Mauritius
	Nigeria	Zambia	Kenya
	Egypt	Tanzania	South Africa
	Uganda	Uganda	Libya
USA
	Egypt	Liberia	Egypt
	Nigeria	Gambia	South Africa
	South Africa	Ghana	Ghana
	Kenya	Ethiopia	Liberia
	Ghana	Eritrea	Cape Verde
France
	Algeria	Senegal	Algeria
	Morocco	Algeria	Tunisia
	Tunisia	Central African Republic	Mauritius
	Madagascar	Togo	Morocco
	Senegal	Madagascar	Senegal
Canada
	South Africa	Tanzania	Seychelles
	Egypt	Eritrea	Mauritius
	Tanzania	Mauritius	South Africa
	Kenya	Seychelles	Namibia
	Uganda	Somalia	Libya
All nine destination countries ^#
	Algeria	Mozambique	Mauritius
	South Africa	Guinea-Bissau	São Tomé & Principe
	Egypt	Angola	Seychelles
	Morocco	Liberia	Cape Verde
	Nigeria	Equatorial Guinea	Algeria

^#United Kingdom, United States, France, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, and South Africa
^aTotal number of physician émigrés: the total number of currently employed doctors who were born in Africa and have lived long enough in the destination country to be part of that country's census.
^bEmigration fraction: the ratio of the number of physician émigrés to the sum of the number of physicians remaining at home in Africa and the number of émigrés.
^cPhysician migration density: the number of physician émigrés per 1000 population of each African country.

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