Correction to: 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	3655	34.27	4189	30.92	+14.61
NIGERIA ^a	2203	20.66	3232	23.85	+46.71
SOUTH AFRICA	1633	15.31	1485	10.96	−9.06
GHANA	547	5.13	730	5.39	+33.46
ETHIOPIA	355	3.33	666	4.92	+87.61
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	313	2.94	537	3.96	+71.57
JORDAN	220	2.06	201	1.48	−8.64
SUDAN	218	2.04	410	3.03	+88.07
UNITED KINGDOM	180	1.69	208	1.54	+15.56
KENYA	151	1.42	206	1.52	+36.42
INDIA	140	1.31	184	1.36	+31.43
ZIMBABWE	113	1.06	122	0.9	+7.96
UGANDA	90	0.84	114	0.84	+26.67
LIBYA	78	0.73	278	2.05	+256.41
ALGERIA	77	0.72	100	0.74	+29.87
PAKISTAN	60	0.56	71	0.52	+18.33
MOROCCO	59	0.55	96	0.71	+62.71
CAMEROON	52	0.49	105	0.77	+101.92
SYRIA	52	0.49	72	0.53	+38.46
LEBANON	48	0.45	45	0.33	−6.25
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	5535	51.90	7270	53.66	+31.35
Total African (non sub-Saharan)	3928	36.83	4727	34.88	+20.34
Total other (non-African)	1201	11.26	1552	11.45	+29.23

^anations in bold are considered Sub-Saharan Africa 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

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