Data Points: The international workforce in American healthcare

Modern Healthcare

U.S. healthcare providers rely on millions of clinicians and other workers from around the globe, including the seven Muslim nations whose citizens are temporarily barred from entering the country. Download the PDF

Note: Numbers are derived from 2015 U.S. Census data and do not include naturalized U.S. citizens.
Source: George Mason University's Institute for Immigration Research

Average of immigrant health care workers 53.1%

Average of native health care workers 45.5%

Physicians

and

surgeons

Therapists

Registered

nurses

Technologists

and

technicians

Other

healthcare

practitioners

and

technical

occupations

Nursing,

psychiatric,

and home

health

aides

 

Other healthcare

support

occupations

Healthcare

occupations,

total

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