The smartest Belarusians work for the USA and the EU

Belarus encountered “brain drain” as a mass phenomenon in the mid-90s and until the end of the 2000s. Only in recent years has this phenomenon ceased to be widespread. Apparently, there is no one to “leak away” anymore.

Based on the database created by the National Science and Technology Portal of Belarus, the online publication “Tomorrow in your country” examined where there is a demand for knowledge from Belarus and in which industries Belarusians were in demand the most.

According to the estimates of researchers, thousands of Belarusian scientists and highly qualified specialists are currently working abroad around 4-5. For a country with a population of less than 9,5 million people, the figure is quite impressive.

Most scientists from Belarus (about 120 people) work in universities and research companies in the United States.

Employers include world-renowned universities Princeton and Harvard, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, Yale, California and Duke universities.

A lot of scientists from Belarus work in Europe. Among the countries mentioned in the database are Germany and Poland (62), United Kingdom (25), Sweden (8), France (7), Belgium, Italy, Finland (6), Latvia, Czech Republic (5), Spain, Netherlands, Slovakia (on 4), Denmark (3), Austria, Hungary, Lithuania, Portugal (on 2), Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, Estonia (on 1).

There are a lot of Belarusian economists abroad. They teach economics in the United States (Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, George Washington University, Yale University), Great Britain (University College London) and many other countries.

Mechanical engineers, chemists, doctors, philosophers, lawyers, mathematicians, ecologists, veterinarians, linguists, programmers, geologists - this is not a complete list of the specializations of Belarusian scientists, professors, doctors, candidates of science, engineers, graduate students working abroad.