Profession regulation and shortage lists by country
Start with a bounded set of high-demand professions. Each comparison keeps country-level regulation, exact shortage-list rows, source dates and missing fields separate. The full profession catalog stays data-only until a demand and minimum-slot rule selects another page set.
The current page set contains 10 priority professions and 384 country pages, bounded by source records rather than the full profession × country Cartesian product.
- Priority professions
- 10
- Country pages
- 384
- Comparison pages
- 10
Profession comparisons
Open a profession to see every country represented by its exact source records.
| Profession | Countries with records | Profession records | Shortage-list records |
|---|---|---|---|
| NurseCompare countries | 39 | 163 | 64 |
| PhysicianCompare countries | 39 | 1510 | 47 |
| TeacherCompare countries | 39 | 136 | 54 |
| EngineerCompare countries | 38 | 124 | 108 |
| ArchitectCompare countries | 39 | 88 | 2 |
| Software developerCompare countries | 38 | 38 | 25 |
| AccountantCompare countries | 39 | 55 | 14 |
| Childcare workerCompare countries | 39 | 51 | 7 |
| ElectricianCompare countries | 37 | 52 | 26 |
| PlumberCompare countries | 37 | 51 | 26 |
What is and is not answered
Regulation status and exact shortage-list evidence are shown when a source record exists. Salary, language and recognition-process fields remain explicitly not collected when the exact record does not publish them. No broad salary average, fuzzy occupation match or inferred zero is used.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Profession regulation and shortage lists by country [ImmigrationDB compilation; version c27138aea89d67176cffa3de2510e39b]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_profession-regulation-and-shortage-lists-by-country_5e7465fd454f,
author = {ImmigrationDB},
title = {Profession regulation and shortage lists by country},
publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-25},
version = {c27138aea89d67176cffa3de2510e39b},
url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/},
note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}Markdown citation
[Profession regulation and shortage lists by country](https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/) — ImmigrationDB; ImmigrationDB; version c27138aea89d67176cffa3de2510e39b; retrieved 2026-10-25; built 2026-10-25.This citation identifies the ImmigrationDB compilation/page. Underlying source publishers and datasets retain their own terms; inspect the Sources section and cite those records separately. View the underlying source records.
Sources
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) / Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA)
- Jobs and Skills Australia / Australian Government
- Australian Department of Home Affairs
- ILO
- European Commission Regulated Professions Database
- Austrian public health portal / BMASGPK
- European Labour Authority / EURES
- Austrian Federal Government, migration.gv.at
- Eurostat
- European Commission Regulated Professions Database