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Table 1 Top four sending countries and their respective most common destination countries

From: Brain Gains: a literature review of medical missions to low and middle-income countries

Sending Country

Destination Country

Total

%

USA

Honduras

16

12.7

 

Costa Rica

13

10.3

 

Mexico

7

5.6

Canada

Ethiopia

3

11.5

 

Somalia

3

11.5

 

Chad

2

7.7

 

Ecuador

2

7.7

 

Guatemala

2

7.7

 

Sudan

2

7.7

 

Afganistan

1

3.9

 

China

1

3.9

 

DR Congo

1

3.9

 

Ghana

1

3.9

 

Haiti

1

3.9

 

Israel

1

3.9

 

Lesotho

1

3.9

 

Malawi

1

3.9

 

Nigeria

1

3.9

 

Papua New Guinea

1

3.9

 

Peru

1

3.9

 

Tajikistan

1

3.9

 

Uzbekistan

1

3.9

 

Zimbabwe

1

3.9

United Kingdom

Uganda

2

11.1

 

Tanzania

2

11.1

 

Ghana

2

11.1

 

Peru

2

11.1

 

Sri Lanka

2

11.1

 

Did not specify

2

11.1

 

China

1

5.6

 

Ethiopia

1

5.6

 

India

1

5.6

 

Nepal

1

5.6

 

South Africa

1

5.6

 

Zambia

1

5.6

Australia

Papua New Guinea

5

27.8

 

Solomon Islands

3

16.7

 

Afghanistan

1

5.6

 

Burundi

1

5.6

 

Cambodia

1

5.6

 

China

1

5.6

 

East Timor

1

5.6

 

Kiribati

1

5.6

 

Philippines

1

5.6

 

Rwanda

1

5.6

 

Russia

1

5.6

 

Sierra Leone

1

5.6