Table 2 The top 20 national destinations of geolocatable developers having left Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine between January 2021 and November 2022. Russian developers disperse widely, while a majority of Belarusian developers remain in nearby countries
From: Digital traces of brain drain: developers during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russia | Belarus | Ukraine | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Destination | Count | Pct. | Destination | Count | Pct. | Destination | Count | Pct. |
United States | 206 | 12% | Poland | 179 | 46% | United States | 62 | 21% |
Germany | 155 | 9% | Georgia | 42 | 11% | Germany | 35 | 12% |
Georgia | 127 | 7% | Lithuania | 30 | 8% | Poland | 32 | 11% |
Netherlands | 108 | 6% | United States | 22 | 6% | Canada | 27 | 9% |
Armenia | 96 | 6% | Spain | 10 | 3% | Russia | 20 | 7% |
Cyprus | 89 | 5% | Estonia | 10 | 3% | United Kingdom | 14 | 5% |
Türkiye | 88 | 5% | Germany | 10 | 3% | Netherlands | 12 | 4% |
Serbia | 78 | 5% | Russia | 8 | 2% | Czechia | 11 | 4% |
United Kingdom | 65 | 4% | United Kingdom | 7 | 2% | Spain | 7 | 2% |
U.A.E. | 65 | 4% | Finland | 7 | 2% | Slovakia | 6 | 2% |
Kazakhstan | 49 | 3% | France | 7 | 2% | Portugal | 5 | 2% |
Finland | 38 | 2% | Ukraine | 6 | 2% | Estonia | 5 | 2% |
Poland | 37 | 2% | Cyprus | 5 | 1% | Sweden | 5 | 2% |
Montenegro | 35 | 2% | Norway | 5 | 1% | Italy | 4 | 1% |
Israel | 32 | 2% | Netherlands | 5 | 1% | France | 3 | 1% |
Canada | 26 | 2% | Portugal | 4 | 1% | Austria | 3 | 1% |
Switzerland | 26 | 2% | Czechia | 4 | 1% | Ireland | 3 | 1% |
Indonesia | 25 | 1% | Sweden | 3 | 1% | Switzerland | 3 | 1% |
Czechia | 24 | 1% | Ireland | 3 | 1% | Latvia | 2 | 1% |
Estonia | 24 | 1% | Türkiye | 3 | 1% | Georgia | 2 | 1% |