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Table II.1.3.2: Country annual trends in number of physicians per 1,000 people 73
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2.98 3.54 0.26 4.24 3.23 45.81 0.017 2.06 14
Republic 2.70 3.50 0.93 168 2.60 57.36 0.07 12.96 14
Estonia 3.11 3.54 0.31 5.47 3.31 65.02 -0.01 -2.34 14
Hungary 2.90 3.16 0.16 2.26 2.99 80.84 0.006 1.5 14
Latvia 2.91 4.05 0.47 10.83 6.53 25.84 -0.05 -3.29 14
Lithuania 3.90 4.15 0.10 1.39 3.99 98.6 0.005 1.18 14
Poland 2.20 2.40 0.04 0.54 2.25 56 0.003 0.74 14
Romania 1.76 1.91 0.49 11.43 1.77 79.86 0.01 3.38 14
Slovakia 2.10 3.60 0.42 8.56 2.37 10.69 0.07 2.93 14
Slovenia 2.03 2.19 0.62 19.65 2.07 111.22 0.009 4.43 14
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b- MENA Countries
According to the same database, the MENA countries have shown high levels of
emigration of medical doctors. The main countries of destination are UK, USA, France,
Canada, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and Austria. Given the
lack of data on some countries like Mauritania and Sudan, the current empirical
investigation focuses on the remaining countries that are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia,
Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey and Yemen.
The total emigration rate related to all destinations ranges from 0.1% to 12%.
Intermediate levels are recognized for the remaining countries with values between two
and four percent.
Even though the rate in 2004 appears to be high, the trends expressed over the period
1991-2004 are constant or decreasing for most of the countries in the region. The
countries displaying increasing rates are Algeria and Libya. All the other countries have
either constant or decreasing annual trends. The decreases, even if statistically significant,
are still low. Syria, Jordan and Egypt have revealed an important reduction in their rates
of emigration of physicians.
Two observations related to the 1991-2004 trends (Table II.1.3.3) expressed by each
country can be introduced. The first observation is that the decreases are low. The second
observation is that these trends are obtained from net emigration rates and may also be
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