Table 1 Foreign (-trained) physicians in eight EEA-countries and their geopolitical region of origin (with a special interest on European physicians).
From: Physicians' migration in Europe: an overview of the current situation
DESTINATION COUNTRY* | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
UK, 2005 | IRE, 2007 | GERM, 2005 | ITA, 2004 | ||
ACTIVE/REGISTERED PHYSICIANS Total (ratio per 100,000 inhabitants) | 239,274 (398.4) | 15,512 (356.3) † | 307,577 (372.8) | 365,652 (631.7) | |
FOREIGN PHYSICIANS† | 74,031 | 4,663 | 18,582 | 12,525 | |
SOURCE COUNTRY/REGION* | |||||
EU | 20,863 | 1,224 | 8,611 | 3,829 | |
EU 15 , | 17,085 | 893 | 5,394 | ||
mainly from | IRE (5,959) GERM (4,026) | UK (592) GER (103) | GRE (1,357) AUS (1,269) | GERM (1,034) FRA (649) GRE (649) | |
EU+12 , | 3,778 | 331 | 3,217 | ||
mainly from | POL (1,424) HUN (647) | POL (155) HUN (59) | POL (1,171) ROM (692) | ROM (389) POL (207) | |
OTHER IN EUROPE | 982 | 3,509 | 1,351 | ||
Non-EU FMC§, | 222 | 9 | |||
mainly from | SWZ (123) | SWZ (7) | SWZ (153) | SWZ (760) | |
Rest of Europe | 760 | ||||
mainly from | RUS (342) UKR (145) | RUS (1,572) UKR (730) | SERB (437) ALB (204) | ||
NORTH AMERICA (US & CAN.) | 344 | 2 | 235 | 771 | |
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA | 270 | 420 | 1,753 | ||
OCEANIA | 3,290 | 378 | 15 | 107 | |
AFRICA | 12,630 | 840 | 813 | 1,590 | |
ASIA | 34,816 | 4,723 | 2,328 | ||
NO SPECIFIED | 836 | 2,210 | 256 | 107 | |
DESTINATION COUNTRY* | |||||
AUS, 2005 | PORT, 2005 | FRA, 2005 | NW, 2006 | ||
ACTIVE/REGISTERED PHYSICIANS Total (ratio per 100,000 inhabitants) | 28,496 (347.2) | 32,552 (309.2) | 212,972 (340.7) | 18,280 (393.9) | |
FOREIGN PHYSICIANS ‡ | 1,442 | 3,199 | 7,665 | 2,799 | |
SOURCE COUNTRY/REGION* | |||||
EU | 1,396 | 2,134 | 4,149 | 2,070 | |
EU 15 , | 1,317 | 2,123 | 3,811 | 1,882 | |
mainly from | GERM (1,003) IT (220) | SP (1,874) GERM (104) | BELG (1,368) GERM (879) | GERM (673) SWE (530) | |
EU+12 , | 79 | 11 | 338 | 188 | |
mainly from | HUN (29) CZE (23) | POL (5) CZE (3) | ROM (158) POL (95) | POL (64) LITH (37) | |
OTHER IN EUROPE | 25 | 120 | 103 | 340 | |
Non-EU FMC§, | 53 | 107 | |||
mainly from | SWZ (46) | ICE (95) | |||
Rest of Europe | 50 | 233 | |||
mainly from | RUS (15) | SERB (73) RUS (71) | |||
NORTH AMERICA (US & CAN) | 2 | 20 | 45 | ||
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA | 503 | 101 | |||
OCEANIA | 2 | 0 | |||
AFRICA | 425 | 2,765 | 23 | ||
ASIA | 19 | 10 | 519 | 234 | |
NO SPECIFIED | 0 | 0 | 8 | 87 | |