A New Database of Health Professional Emigration from Africa

Michael A. Clemens and Gunilla Pettersson ()

No 95, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain. But empirical research on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where have they settled? As part of a larger study of the consequences of the international migration of African health professionals, we compiled a database of the cumulative bilateral net flows of African-born physicians and nurses to the nine most important destination countries. It is the first database of net bilateral migration flows specific to a skilled profession collected systematically for a large number of developing countries. In this note we make these data available to the research community.

Keywords: migration; brain drain; Africa; health professionals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 O15 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-dev and nep-hea
Date: 2006-08
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