15 Best Countries to Immigrate for Indian Doctors

The list of 15 best countries to immigrate for Indian doctors might help recent graduates of Indian decent decide which country to settle down and find a job.

Because they say that doctors will always be needed, but some countries are just too full of them. And if you really want to help people, it would be best to go to a country in need of your services. Yes, that country might be the third world, but it would be an adventure, and you would certainly stay busy. Poor countries in need of foreign doctors are not only in need because there aren’t many around, but because they face dire medical conditions like malnutrition and AIDS. These diseases won’t go away on their own. Doctors are crucial to help treat those diseases by prescribing medicines and performing surgeries no one else can.

But don’t worry, the countries where doctors are needed aren’t all third-world. Some just go to the trouble of professionally training doctors who insist on leaving the country once they graduate. And the best news is, these countries are willing to pay well for healthcare because it’s so rare. But as an immigrant, you’ll also have to settle in a location that’s friendly to immigrants. And it would also be nice to settle in a location that’s specifically friendly to Indian immigrants, and countries accepting Indian medical degrees. Places where it’s not difficult to become a legal citizen or get a Visa.

So for our list of best countries for doctors to practice, we consulted multiple reputable sources including Hello Travel’s 59 Friendly Countries for Indians, Btw Visa’s 11 Most Visited Countries By Indians, Immigration World’s Top 10 Countries Where You Can Immigrate and Settle Easily, Wall Street Journal’s Germany Seeks Foreign Cure, Insider Monkey’s 16 Highest Paid Countries for Doctors, Telegraph’s Easiest Countries to Gain EU Residency, Make It In Germany’s Sought After: Good Doctors, Harvard News’ Wanted: Doctors for Africa, Go Oversees’ Top 9 Countries in Need of Medical Volunteers, Delta Quest’s Top 10 Countries with the Highest Salaries for Doctors, World Atlas’s 25 Countries with Limited Access to Healthcare, Insider Monkey’s 6 Easiest Countries to Work as a Doctor, Forbes’s World’s Friendliest Countries, Medical Footprint’s 10 Highest Paid Countries in the World for Doctors, Immigroup’s Top 10 Immigration Friendly Countries, Irin News’s 10 Countries Desperately Seeking Doctors, Skycanner’s Visa Friendly Countries for Indians in Africa, NRI Cafe’s 10 Beautiful Visa Friendly Countries for Indians, and CNBC’s 5 Easiest Places to Relocate.

Each time a country appeared on any one of the lists above, we gave it one point. And since we consulted lists of easiest countries to immigrate for Indians, lists of countries in need of doctors, and lists of countries friendly to immigrants in general, these three variables ensure an accurate ranking of some of the best countries for Indian doctors to settle.

But remember that, before you pack all your goods and hop on a plane to one of the countries below, you’ll need to do accurate research beforehand. Find out exactly where the needed healthcare is, and discover the ins and outs of getting a Visa or citizenship in the country first.

And while you’re researching, you might also want to check out our list of 10 Hardest Countries to Immigrate Into.

So here goes! 15 best countries to immigrate for Indian doctors.

5. Chad

3 points

Chad has fewer than one doctor per 20,000 and four hospital beds per 10,000. Indian doctors to the rescue!

The following 10 countries share the 4th place on our list of best countries to immigrate for Indian doctors.

4. Malawi

4 points

Frequent AIDS epidemics+ doctor shortage= not a good situation.

4. Mozambique

4 points

This country has resorted to training non-physicians to perform surgery on patients, which doesn’t sound like the safest way to solve the problem.

4. New Guinea

4 points

There are 2 doctors per 1,000 in this country. I wouldn’t want to live here if I had any health problems.

4. Mauritius

4 points

Not only is this a good place to relocate to, but it’s also a place Indian doctors have been specifically recruited to in the past.

4. United Kingdom 

4 points

In this country, Indians earn nearly as much as or the same as white Britons, so you’ll be taken care of here.

4. Canada

4 points

This website shows where the highest concentration of Indians is in Canada. But before you go, remember that the climate is going to be vastly different than your Indian homeland.

4. Thailand

4 points

Check out this article from NPR about how medical tourism created a shortage in Thai doctors. Maybe some Indian doctors can fix that.

4. Germany

4 points

Germany needs doctors, and on average doctors here are paid more than any other occupation, maybe because they’re so rare and needed.

4. Ethiopia

4 points

Healthcare in America states that “When Dr. Bereket Fantahun finished medical school 15 years ago in Ethiopia, she graduated with 58 classmates, only 10 of whom stayed in the country.”

4. Somalia

4 points

There are only 0.03 physicians per 1,000 in this country, and something needs to be done about that.

The following two countries share the second place on our list of best countries to immigrate for Indian doctors.

2. United States 

5 points

Yep, we made the list of 15 best countries to immigrate for Indian doctors! Have you ever had an Indian doctor?

2. Tanzania

5 points

This African country is clearly in desperate need of doctors, and it’s friendly to Indian immigrants too.

And finally, let’s see the top two best countries to immigrate for Indian doctors which share the first place on our list.

1. New Zealand

9 points

Hospitals and practices across this country which ranks second on our list of best countries to immigrate for Indian doctors are in shortage of doctors, so there is a plenty of opportunities for Indian doctors.

1. Australia

9 points

So, both Australia and New Zealand tie for first! So, head to either if you want to be successful as an Indian doctor. For more information check out Doctor Recruitment Australia website. That’s all for our list of 15 best countries to immigrate for Indian doctors. Thanks for reading!