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LDCs in 1968 occurred at about twice the rate of such entries during 

 the seven preceding years. Moreover, Henderson observes, scientists, 

 engineers, and medical personnel among the immigrants from the 

 LDCs in 1967 and 1968 totaled more than half the 40,000 fellowships 

 granted since World War II by the United Nations Development 

 Program and its predecessors to nations of low-income countries to 

 study abroad for essential occupations at home, and more than those 

 who had been trained at home during an average year for that 

 period.^^° 



Within these overall percentages, Mr. Henderson continues, the 

 immigration of scientists to the United States from the LDCs rose 

 nearly 10 times and that of engineers nearly 6 times between 1956 

 and 1967 with further increases by 1968. A number of individual 

 countries showed an even more striking increase. The immigration of 

 engineers, scientists, and medical personnel from China (Taiwan) 

 rose from 47 in 1956 to 1,321 in 1967; in the case of India from 100 

 to 1,415; and in that of the Philippines from 90 to 1,066 in 1967 

 and 3,153 in 1968. As a region, Africa began to show a remarkable 

 increase. In 1969, Africa surpassed South America in professional 

 migration for the first time and did so almost two to one. 



Thus, Henderson sums up, scientists from the LDCs made up an 

 increasing part of the total American immigration. Moreover, in 1967, 

 they constituted about 13 percent of the addition to the ranks of Amer- 

 ican scientists. Engineers from the LDCs constituted about 8 percent 

 of the annual additions to the supply of American engineers. The total 

 figure for engineers emigrating from the LDCs was placed at 4,229, 

 that is, 28 percent larger in number than the total increase of 3,305 

 American engineers in 1967.^^^ 



PROFESSIONAL IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES, TRENDS THROUGH 



THE FISCAL YEAR 19 70 



Recently published data by the National Science Foundation on the 

 immigration of scientists, engineers, and physicians from abroad re- 

 affirm the continued increase in the immigration of professionals and 

 the continued regional shift to the LDCs as the source of growing im- 

 migration. (See Figures 4 and 5, and Table 8.) The NSF report en- 

 titled, "Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians from Abroad: Trends 

 through Fiscal Year 1970," highlights its compilation of statistical 

 data and interpretive analysis with these generalizations.^^^ 



i«> Ibid., p. 30. 



laibld., p. 31. 



^^ National Science Foundation, Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians from Abroad: 

 Trends through Fiscal Year 1970, 1972, pp. vl-vll. (Surveys of Science Resources Series, 

 NSF 72-312). (Hereafter cited as, NSF, Survey of Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians 

 from Abroad, 1972.) 



