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Europe's brain drain: Germany leads in absolute losses, but per capita ranking flips
Analysis of 2024 data shows 17 of 19 European countries lost native-born residents. Germany had the largest absolute net loss, but when normalized per 1,000 residents, a different country tops the list. The dataset is publicly available on GitHub for reproducibility.
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The per-capita metric reveals a more nuanced picture of talent flight that absolute numbers obscure, challenging simplistic narratives about which countries are most affected.
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