14 DAY TRIAL // Being the largest social network for hosting CVs and letting professionals get in touch with each other has its perks, one of them being the access to inside information on a variety of work-related topics.
One of these topics is workforce migration, which LinkedIn has access to by analyzing how users are changing their profile details.
By studying how its members are changing their workplace location or their home city, LinkedIn staff managed to compile a list of the top countries to which professionals are migrating, and the top countries where they're moving from.
The two data sets were put together, and by adding up the number of users a country gained with the number of users the country lost, a net migration percentage was calculated for each nation.
The United Arab Emirates attracted the most professionals in 2014
According to the LinkedIn data, in 2014, the United Arab Emirates gained the most professionals with an increase of its membership by 1.899%.
The top five is completed by Switzerland (+0.90%), Saudi Arabia (+0.85%), Singapore (+0.47%), and Germany (+0.44%).
On the other side of the statistic, India lost the most workers with a -0.23%, followed by France (-0.20%), Italy (-0.19%), Spain (-0/18%), and the United Kingdom (-0.12%).
Analyzing the extremes, LinkedIn researchers found out that most workers who moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) came from India (28% of all new professionals), followed by professionals from the UK, Pakistan, USA, and Qatar.
Most of the new UAE professionals work as salespeople, marketing specialists, project managers, corporate finance specialists, accountants, consultants, and mechanical engineers.
India is a hot destination for head-hunting IT engineers
The same statistic for India, the country that lost the most users, says that most Indians moved to the US (almost 40%), then to the UAE, UK, Australia, and Canada.
As expected, most professionals who left India worked in tech-related fields and were software engineers, consultants, project managers, salespeople, and graduate research assistants.
You can compare this year's statistics to LinkedIn's 2014 migration report and draw your own conclusions.
