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List of sovereign states by immigrant and emigrant population

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List of sovereign states by immigrant and emigrant population

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These are lists of countries by foreign-born population (immigrants) and lists of countries by number of native-born persons living in a foreign country (emigrants).

According to the United Nations, in 2024 the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France and the United Kingdom had the largest numbers of immigrants of any country, while Tuvalu, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, and Tokelau had the lowest. In terms of percentage of population, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait had the highest shares, while Cuba, Madagascar and China had the lowest.

According to estimates from the same UN 2015 report, in 2013 India and Mexico had the highest numbers of native-born persons living in a foreign country, while Tokelau and San Marino had the lowest.

Illegal immigration can be underreported. TOC

Share of population born in another country (2020, Our World in Data)

Definition

The United Nations defines "foreign-born" as "born in a country other than that in which one resides" to estimate the international migrant stock, whenever this information is available. In countries lacking data on place of birth, the UN uses the country of citizenship instead.

According to the UN: "Equating international migrants with foreign citizens when estimating the migrant stock has important shortcomings. In countries where citizenship is conferred on the basis of jus sanguinis, people who were born in the country of residence may be included in the number of international migrants even though they may have never lived abroad. Conversely, persons who were born abroad and who naturalized in their country of residence are excluded from the stock of international migrants when using citizenship as the criterion to define international migrants."

Immigrant population by destination

Country or territorytitle=International Migrant Stockwebsite=Population Divisionurl=https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/content/international-migrant-stockaccess-date=2 March 2025}}Percentage
of total populationPercentage female
immigrants
Afghanistan98,1100.252.0
Albania46,3771.749.0
Algeria259,4580.647.2
American Samoa23,68450.649.0
Andorra48,40859.148.8
Angola676,5071.849.5
Anguilla5,91840.552.7
Antigua and Barbuda30,47332.555.4
Argentina1,958,0394.355.1
Armenia274,6459.257.0
Aruba41,80638.754.5
Australia7,111,40430.151.4
Austria2,327,06425.552.8
Azerbaijan218,4602.152.1
Bahamas67,28516.849.4
Bahrain840,20252.326.6
Bangladesh2,906,3381.748.3
Barbados35,18712.555.1
Belarus1,054,60411.654.2
Belgium2,349,03220.051.0
Belize68,70616.549.7
Benin418,2022.952.9
Bermuda20,17131.250.7
Bhutan55,7057.015.1
Bolivia183,2341.547.6
Bosnia and Herzegovina34,1201.153.2
Botswana116,4024.643.0
Brazil1,406,2990.741.8
British Virgin Islands24,52062.151.8
Brunei Darussalam119,93325.943.4
Bulgaria299,1004.452.7
Burkina Faso739,8203.152.4
Burundi387,1012.850.7
Cabo Verde16,5153.149.4
Cambodia83,9250.546.1
Cameroon642,9482.250.6
Canada8,805,83923.052.6
Caribbean1,811,9264.147.6
Cayman Islands31,93542.948.6
Central African Republic94,5561.847.6
Chad1,269,6736.355.6
Channel Islands85,53950.952.2
Chile1,538,3247.849.1
China1,638,7180.151.6
Hong Kong3,063,31841.362.6
Macau426,86259.353.6
Taiwan1,136,4254.960.5
Colombia3,063,5185.850.3
Comoros12,4491.451.6
Congo385,5896.145.5
Cook Islands4,93736.050.0
Costa Rica628,40412.249.4
Croatia527,83113.654.7
Cuba2,1440.056.6
Curaçao80,02043.156.4
Cyprus202,06214.955.0
Czechia1,025,1999.551.2
Côte d'Ivoire2,880,8399.040.0
Democratic People's Republic of Korea50,4390.250.2
Democratic Republic of the Congo1,085,0901.051.8
Denmark847,47514.250.9
Djibouti125,99610.847.5
Dominica8,44012.747.9
Dominican Republic738,6676.539.8
Ecuador747,7494.151.7
Egypt9,985,45310.047.1
El Salvador43,3420.752.4
Equatorial Guinea248,93013.222.9
Eritrea12,5120.443.9
Estonia203,04614.956.5
Eswatini33,2682.748.5
Ethiopia1,168,4550.949.7
Falkland Islands2,33367.244.4
Faroe Islands8,10114.648.0
Fiji14,3621.546.0
Finland514,4329.249.2
France12 986 75718.648.5
French Guiana130,92442.452.5
French Polynesia30,09910.743.0
Gabon449,74617.735.7
Gambia236,1378.647.2
Georgia81,5822.156.1
Germany17,750,08421.150.0
Ghana532,2861.546.6
Gibraltar11,29128.749.5
Greece1,423,96414.252.1
Greenland5,81210.435.2
Grenada7,3406.354.4
Guadeloupe89,61023.958.0
Guam84,15950.248.4
Guatemala92,7320.552.7
Guinea117,4160.841.2
Guinea-Bissau15,0640.750.6
Guyana54,1756.553.5
Haiti19,5810.244.4
Vatican City496100.052.2
Honduras39,9010.447.5
Hungary[250,912](https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/nep/en/nep0023.html)2.648.2
Iceland98,81825.145.4
India4,796,2550.357.1
Indonesia445,7260.246.2
Iran3,840,6544.252.0
Iraq370,9800.844.9
Ireland1,216,23723.151.9
Isle of Man43,69351.951.2
Israel2,091,56922.354.4
Italy6,553,67111.053.7
Jamaica24,0070.849.2
Japan3,409,5292.849.6
Jordan3,480,16833.844.3
Kazakhstan2,089,79710.159.3
Kenya992,5361.849.5
Kiribati3,3022.547.2
Kuwait3,323,19167.334.0
Kyrgyzstan194,8162.759.6
Laos51,4460.735.6
Latvia220,47111.859.5
Lebanon1,422,58324.549.3
Lesotho15,0390.645.8
Liberia72,4231.342.4
Libya897,75112.228.2
Liechtenstein27,66969.451.2
Lithuania175,1946.147.0
Luxembourg344,30951.249.1
Madagascar38,6250.143.0
Malawi186,7190.951.1
Malaysia3,806,51410.722.9
Maldives75,09914.212.3
Mali545,3232.249.3
Malta199,46637.042.4
Marshall Islands3,3098.838.7
Martinique68,18719.957.5
Mauritania195,9373.843.4
Mauritius29,1422.344.6
Mayotte143,52844.053.7
Mexico1,726,0891.347.3
Micronesia (Fed. States of)2,8942.646.5
Monaco27,10670.251.5
Mongolia22,5890.633.2
Montenegro92,23714.454.4
Montserrat1,40231.948.4
Morocco111,0690.348.5
Mozambique353,1431.051.2
Myanmar79,0520.145.2
Namibia116,0353.846.0
Nauru2,54821.341.1
Nepal470,7191.669.9
Netherlands2,956,51816.251.3
New Caledonia76,73826.247.7
New Zealand1,467,98928.250.9
Nicaragua43,7570.648.6
Niger449,2361.753.5
Nigeria1,403,2810.645.5
Niue58832.345.7
North Macedonia150,9028.358.0
Northern Mariana Islands22,00049.758.0
Norway1,012,40418.250.0
Oman2,283,36643.219.8
Pakistan4,175,9581.748.1
Palau5,21229.543.2
Panama477,74910.646.7
Papua New Guinea31,1710.339.2
Paraguay180,8372.647.9
Peru1,837,2195.453.8
Philippines87,2120.129.7
Poland1,739,9014.559.5
Portugal1,127,18410.852.1
Puerto Rico223,3236.953.5
Qatar2,337,00076.722.7
Republic of Korea2,650,7835.246.9
Republic of Moldova188,2076.258.5
Romania655,5793.449.8
Russia7,605,7745.350.8
Rwanda513,3163.649.4
Réunion135,53415.449.3
Saint Helena4929.430.1
Saint Kitts and Nevis7,95817.047.4
Saint Lucia8,0794.552.0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon1,00817.947.6
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines4,8204.848.4
Samoa3,8431.849.5
San Marino5,83817.446.0
Sao Tome and Principe1,9550.850.1
Saudi Arabia13,683,84140.322.3
Senegal281,8671.547.0
Serbia712,55010.655.9
Seychelles13,26110.230.0
Sierra Leone49,9970.643.4
Singapore2,841,66548.757.1
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)30,14869.552.1
Slovakia323,9915.961.4
Slovenia315,12214.941.4
Solomon Islands2,4690.343.9
Somalia77,9720.444.9
South Africa2,631,1004.141.9
South Sudan914,0017.749.7
Spain9,510,52720.251.7
Sri Lanka40,6980.247.3
State of Palestine272,4815.054.3
Sudan2,397,1134.850.3
Suriname51,9028.245.0
Sweden2,272,15821.452.0
Switzerland2,503,84028.850.3
Syrian Arab Republic896,0423.650.2
Tajikistan276,7772.656.8
Thailand3,179,3994.443.8
Timor-Leste8,3030.639.6
Togo281,9943.049.3
Tokelau1,28251.252.7
Tonga3,5813.445.4
Trinidad and Tobago113,4787.550.3
Tunisia63,2010.547.7
Turkmenistan193,7632.652.6
Turks and Caicos Islands28,45561.148.2
Tuvalu2462.644.7
Turkey7,083,5018.150.3
Uganda2,057,7594.155.0
Ukraine5,064,17313.457.0
United Arab Emirates8,157,00074.032.7
United Kingdom11,845,47917.148.5
United Republic of Tanzania462,3710.750.0
United States Virgin Islands56,77966.952.9
United States52,375,04715.251.1
Uruguay160,0644.752.5
Uzbekistan1,154,9633.253.2
Vanuatu3,3151.050.3
Venezuela1,263,3044.450.7
Vietnam326,4180.352.8
Wallis and Futuna Islands2,03218.049.5
Western Sahara5,6281.040.9
Yemen392,9971.042.3
Zambia249,2051.248.1
Zimbabwe429,1082.643.2

Emigrant population

Country or region of originEmigrantsArticle
**World**271,642,105
**Other South**7,950,425
**Other North**3,407,920
Afghanistan5,120,756Afghan diaspora
Albania1,207,032Albanian diaspora
Algeria1,944,784
American Samoa1,817
Andorra9,114
Angola661,590
Anguilla2,707
Antigua and Barbuda55,089
Argentina1,013,414
Armenia964,848Armenian diaspora
Aruba19,640
Australia577,255Australian diaspora
Austria575,950Austrians Abroad
Azerbaijan1,155,852Azerbaijani diaspora
Bahamas46,467
Bahrain60,153
Bangladesh7,835,152Bangladeshi diaspora
Barbados112,925
Belarus1,480,794Belarusian diaspora
Belgium581,740
Belize68,144
Benin666,357
Bermuda18,049
Bhutan49,216
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)878,211
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba12,764
Bosnia and Herzegovina1,653,056Bosnian diaspora
Botswana86,501
Brazil1,745,339Brazilian diaspora
British Virgin Islands5,417
Brunei Darussalam46,977
Bulgaria1,541,860Bulgarian diaspora
Burkina Faso1,581,083
Burundi623,999
Cabo Verde186,372
Cambodia1,097,884
Cameroon383,029
Canada1,323,087Canadian diaspora
Cayman Islands1,973
Central African Republic767,884
Chad206,400
Channel Islands22,545
Chile650,151
China10,732,281Chinese diaspora
Hong Kong1,110,358Emigration from Hong Kong
Macau161,930
Colombia2,869,032Colombian diaspora
Comoros120,297
Congo239,397
Cook Islands22,488
Costa Rica150,400
Côte d'Ivoire1,114,003
Croatia990,012Croatian diaspora
Cuba1,654,684Cuban diaspora
Curaçao123,132
Cyprus214,648Greek Cypriot diaspora
Czech Republic911,388Czech diaspora
Democratic People's Republic of Korea113,118Korean diaspora
Democratic Republic of the Congo1,684,615
Denmark255,616
Djibouti18,668
Dominica78,634
Dominican Republic1,558,668
Ecuador1,183,685Emigration from Ecuador
Egypt3,547,626Egyptian diaspora
El Salvador1,600,739
Equatorial Guinea125,670
Eritrea751,481
Estonia208,257
Eswatini108,188
Ethiopia871,747
Falkland Islands1,623
Faroe Islands13,838
Fiji222,633
Finland290,006Finnish diaspora
France2,296,534French diaspora
French Guiana4,555
French Polynesia1,982
Gabon46,684
Gambia118,483
Georgia852,816Georgian diaspora
Germany4,014,203German diaspora
Ghana970,625
Gibraltar14,320
Greece1,039,257Greek diaspora
Greenland18,684
Grenada75,784
Guadeloupe11,856
Guam2,197
Guatemala1,205,644
Guinea530,963
Guinea-Bissau103,587
Guyana520,196
Haiti1,585,681
Holy See217
Honduras800,707
Hungary632,126Hungarian diaspora
Iceland42,186Icelandic diaspora
India17,510,931Indian diaspora
Indonesia4,532,992Indonesian diaspora
Iran4,037,258Iranian diaspora
Iraq2,033,522Iraqi diaspora
Ireland816,797Irish diaspora
Isle of Man12,809
Israel369,935Yordim
Italy3,077,777Italian diaspora
Jamaica1,111,021Jamaican diaspora
Japan838,852Japanese diaspora
Jordan784,377
Kazakhstan4,005,587
Kenya525,437
Kiribati4,370
Kuwait205,382Kuwaiti diaspora
Kyrgyzstan754,969
Lao People's Democratic Republic1,347,034Laotian diaspora
Latvia332,220Latvian diaspora
Lebanon844,158Lebanese diaspora
Lesotho341,580
Liberia219,338
Libya180,586
Liechtenstein3,713
Lithuania610,223
Luxembourg75,470
Madagascar184,762
Malawi324,541
Malaysia1,689,222Malaysian diaspora
Maldives3,053Maldivian diaspora
Mali1,264,700
Malta111,137Emigration from Malta
Marshall Islands8,205
Martinique13,919
Mauritania128,506
Mauritius188,344
Mayotte6,617
Mexico11,796,178Emigration from Mexico
Micronesia (Fed. States of)21,819
Monaco31,452
Mongolia73,488Mongolian diaspora
Montenegro153,009
Montserrat22,838
Morocco3,136,069Moroccan diaspora
Mozambique1,013,416
Myanmar3,699,472Burmese diaspora
Namibia195,515
Nauru2,421
Nepal2,285,364Nepalese diaspora
Netherlands980,753Dutch diaspora
New Caledonia5,098
New Zealand777,303
Nicaragua682,865
Niger401,653
Nigeria1,438,331Nigerian diaspora
Niue5,593
North Macedonia658,264Macedonian diaspora
Northern Mariana Islands2,764
Norway202,336Norwegian diaspora
Oman24,939
Pakistan6,303,286Pakistani diaspora
Palau2,650
Panama161,107
Papua New Guinea219,126
Paraguay871,638
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Philippines5,377,337Overseas Filipinos
Poland4,446,985Polish diaspora
Portugal2,631,559
Puerto Rico5,807,347Puerto Rican diaspora
Qatar171,632
Republic of Moldova1,013,417Moldovan diaspora
Réunion133,769
Romania3,572,794Romanian diaspora
Russia10,491,715Russian diaspora
Rwanda588,544
Saint Helena6,596
Saint Kitts and Nevis124,941
Saint Lucia63,605
Saint Pierre and Miquelon2,356
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines60,655
Samoa124,403
San Marino2,425
Sao Tome and Principe37,013
Saudi Arabia296,254
Senegal642,654
Serbia950,485Serbian diaspora
Seychelles36,788
Sierra Leone187,102
Singapore340,751Overseas Singaporean
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)29,209
Slovakia345,683Slovak diaspora
Slovenia147,593Slovene diaspora
Solomon Islands4,234
Somalia2,054,377Somali diaspora
South Africa824,601South African diaspora
Republic of Korea2,176,580Korean diaspora
South Sudan2,608,218South Sudanese diaspora
Spain1,444,942Spanish diaspora
Sri Lanka1,775,768Sri Lankan diaspora
State of Palestine3,890,650Palestinian diaspora
Sudan2,040,613
Suriname423,517
Sweden353,825Swedish diaspora
Switzerland679,796Swiss abroad
Syria8,225,499Syrian diaspora
Tajikistan597,959
Thailand1,020,119
Timor-Leste39,202
Togo543,277
Tokelau2,242
Tonga74,433
Trinidad and Tobago334,304
Tunisia813,213
Turkey3,493,071Turkish diaspora
Turkmenistan260,832
Turks and Caicos Islands31,033
Tuvalu3,276
Uganda734,951
Ukraine5,901,067Ukrainian diaspora
United Arab Emirates154,404Emirati diaspora
United Kingdom4,274,998British diaspora
United Republic of Tanzania323,173
United States4,779,929American diaspora
United States Virgin Islands25,863
Uruguay633,439Emigration from Uruguay
Uzbekistan1,979,523
Vanuatu7,346
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)2,519,780Venezuelan diaspora
Vietnam2,683,954Overseas Vietnamese
Wallis and Futuna Islands11,820
Western Sahara195,572
Yemen1,267,610Yemeni diaspora
Zambia493,087
Zimbabwe933,654Zimbabwean diaspora

Notes

References

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