The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its latest report, announced that among 91 world’s developing and non-developed countries Iran has the highest rate of brain drain, reported Radio France on May 31, 2009.
According to this report, 150 to 180 of the Iranian elites migrate annually from Iran for different reasons. 220 Iranian academicians have left Iran for residing in western countries only in year 2,000.
Presently more than 250,000 Iranian engineers and physicians and more than 170,000other high educated Iranians live in the United States and according to the official figures of the Passport Office, in 2008, 15 senior expert and 2-3 PhD owners and altogether 5, 475 Bachelors of Science(B.S.C) have migrated from the country.
