Understanding Africans’ Migration Impact
Unraveling Brain Drain, Causes, and Solutions
Africa’s development has had a huge setback for decades in comparison to other continents. Aside common factors such as poor leadership choices, the lag in growth is also partly due to the continent’s low human and economic capital development, particularly, the exodus of Skilled professionals from the continent. In a period of 3 decades, from 1990 to 2020, the total number of African migrants living outside of the region, including skilled professionals, more than doubled to about 20 million, with the growth in Europe at the highest.
Most of the African-born migrants living outside the region were residing in Europe (11 million), Asia (nearly 5 million), and North America (around 3 million). In 2020, Egypt, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, and Algeria were the top emigrant African countries. The African union estimated that about 70,000 skilled professionals emigrate from Africa every year, making it one of the highest immigration rates of skilled professionals in the world.
According to the estimates of the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development, each migrating African professional represents a loss of $184,000.00 to Africa. Young Africans will continue to migrate to Europe, America, Asia, and Oceania in search of better economic opportunities, due to limited opportunities on the continent. Security issues, corruption, rippling effects of poor governance such as inadequate policy incentives, and unaccountability are additional push factors for the high migration rate from Africa, contributing to a massive brain drain.
Skilled emigration from Africa, the root cause of brain drain will likely continue into the near future, as long as the root causes remain unaddressed. It will continue to take its toll on the continent, further decreasing the already dwindling human capital, thus affecting critical sectors in the economies of many African countries, and negatively impacting the capacity of the countries for research, innovation, production and growth.
The pervasiveness of the brain drain is particularly evident in the health sector; Professor Femi Akinwunmi, the President of African Development Bank in his opening remarks at the “Development without Borders” Community of Practice dialogue held on 1st and 2nd December 2022, referenced the World Health Organisation records showing that 26 African countries for which there is data available, from 2012 to 2016, the ratio of physicians to people is 0.45 to 1000. Ironically, records show that 13,584 African-trained International Medical graduates practice in the US alone. This statistic is for 2015, nine years on, where does the figure stand now? A report by Mo Ibrahim foundation Assessment in 2018, titled “Brain Drain a bane for Africa’s potential” revealed that 86% of all African-educated physicians working in the United States were trained in Ghana, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa.
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