A comparison of physician emigration from Africa to the United States of America between 2005 and 2015

Table 2 African-educated IMGs in the US physician workforce by country of citizenship at entry to medical school

	2005		2015
	Number	% of total	Number	% of total	% change
EGYPT	3 655	34.27	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
NIGERIA ^a	2 203	20.66	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
SOUTH AFRICA	1 633	15.31	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
GHANA	547	5.13	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
ETHIOPIA	355	3.33	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	313	2.94	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
JORDAN	220	2.06	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
SUDAN	218	2.04	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
UNITED KINGDOM	180	1.69	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
KENYA	151	1.42	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
INDIA	140	1.31	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
ZIMBABWE	113	1.06	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
UGANDA	90	0.84	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
LIBYA	78	0.73	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
ALGERIA	77	0.72	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
PAKISTAN	60	0.56	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
MOROCCO	59	0.55	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
CAMEROON	52	0.49	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
SYRIA	52	0.49	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
LEBANON	48	0.45	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
Other sub-Saharan	173	1.62	200	1.48	+15.61
Other African (non sub-Saharan)	59	0.55	64	0.47	+8.47
Other (non-African)	188	1.76	234	1.73	+24.47
Total sub-Saharan^a	5 535	51.90	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511
Total African (non sub-Saharan)	3 928	36.83	Err:511	34.88	Err:511
Total other (non-African)	1 201	11.26	Err:511	Err:511	Err:511

Total numbers for Table 2 differ from Table 1 because of missing citizenship information. <0.05% of the physicians did not have citizenship information coded in the ECFMG database
^aNations in bold are considered sub-Saharan Africa

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