Emigration rate of tertiary educated (% of total tertiary educated population)

Definition: Emigration rate of tertiary educated shows the stock of emigrants ages 25 and older, residing in an OECD country other than that in which they were born, with at least one year of tertiary education as a percentage of the population age 25 and older with tertiary education.

Description: The map below shows how Emigration rate of tertiary educated (% of total tertiary educated population) varies by country. The shade of the country corresponds to the magnitude of the indicator. The darker the shade, the higher the value. The country with the highest value in the world is Guyana, with a value of 89.24. The country with the lowest value in the world is Oman, with a value of 0.37.

Source: Frédéric Docquier, B. Lindsay Lowell, and Abdeslam Marfouk's , ""A Gendered Assessment of Highly Skilled Emigration"" (2009).

See also: Country ranking, Time series comparison

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