International migration and movement of nursing personnel to and within OECD countries
- 2000 to 2018
Developments in countries of destination and impact on countries of origin
This paper presents the most recent data on the extent to which migrant nurses contribute
to the nursing workforce in the OECD countries as well as the impact these regular
migration flows have on the countries of origin, including an analysis of the developments
since 2000. The objective of this paper is to provide new data for policy dialogue
at the national and international levels. The shares of foreign-born or foreign-trained
nurses have continued to rise over the last two decades across the OECD countries,
with intra-OECD migration making up a third of the migration volume. Regarding the
impact on countries of origin, emigration rates to OECD countries are generally moderate
but a few countries experience significant losses of (needed) nurses. However, for
a significant share of the foreign-trained nurses, the data sources do not allow the
identification of the country of training. Hence, some of the results should be treated
as lower-bound estimates.
Published on February 24, 2021
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