List of sovereign states and dependent territories by immigrant population
These are lists of countries by foreign-born population (immigrants) and lists of countries by number native-born persons living in a foreign country (emigrants).
According to the United Nations, in 2019, the United States, Germany, and Saudi Arabia had the largest number of immigrants of any country, while Tuvalu, Saint Helena, and Tokelau had the lowest. In terms of percentage of population, the Vatican City, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar had the highest, 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.
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.[1]
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."[1]
UN 2019 report: immigrant population
| Major area, region, country or area of destination | International migrant stock at mid-year (both sexes) 2019 | International migrant stock as a percentage of the total population (both sexes) 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| WORLD | 271,642,105 | 3.5 |
| UN development groups | .. | .. |
| More developed regions | 152,069,261 | 12.0 |
| Less developed regions | 119,572,844 | 1.9 |
| Least developed countries | 16,289,023 | 1.6 |
| Less developed regions, excluding least developed countries | 103,283,821 | 1.9 |
| World Bank income groups | .. | .. |
| High-income countries | 175,811,829 | 14.0 |
| Middle-income countries | 82,237,681 | 1.4 |
| Upper-middle-income countries | 54,279,436 | 2.1 |
| Lower-middle-income countries | 27,958,245 | 0.9 |
| Low-income countries | 13,072,099 | 1.7 |
| No income group available | 520,496 | 17.9 |
| Geographic regions | .. | .. |
| Africa | 26,529,334 | 2.0 |
| Asia | 83,559,197 | 1.8 |
| Europe | 82,304,539 | 11.0 |
| Latin America and the Caribbean | 11,673,288 | 1.8 |
| Northern America | 58,647,822 | 16.0 |
| Oceania | 8,927,925 | 21.2 |
| Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) regions | .. | .. |
| SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA | 23,573,485 | 2.2 |
| Eastern Africa | 7,908,176 | 1.8 |
 Burundi | 321,018 | 2.8 |
 Comoros | 12,504 | 1.5 |
 Djibouti | 115,341 | 11.8 |
 Eritrea | 16,101 | 0.5 |
 Ethiopia | 1,253,083 | 1.1 |
 Kenya | 1,044,854 | 2.0 |
 Madagascar | 34,934 | 0.1 |
 Malawi | 247,652 | 1.3 |
 Mauritius | 28,849 | 2.3 |
 Mayotte | 74,643 | 28.0 |
 Mozambique | 334,665 | 1.1 |
| Réunion | 129,153 | 14.5 |
 Rwanda | 539,932 | 4.3 |
 Seychelles | 12,926 | 13.2 |
 Somalia | 52,131 | 0.3 |
 South Sudan | 865,552 | 7.8 |
 Uganda | 1,734,166 | 3.9 |
 United Republic of Tanzania | 509,166 | 0.9 |
 Zambia | 170,249 | 1.0 |
 Zimbabwe | 411,257 | 2.8 |
| Middle Africa | 3,785,279 | 2.2 |
 Angola | 669,479 | 2.1 |
 Cameroon | 505,692 | 2.0 |
 Central African Republic | 90,649 | 1.9 |
 Chad | 512,230 | 3.2 |
 Congo | 402,142 | 7.5 |
 Democratic Republic of the Congo | 963,833 | 1.1 |
 Equatorial Guinea | 227,617 | 16.8 |
 Gabon | 411,463 | 18.9 |
 Sao Tome and Principe | 2,174 | 1.0 |
| Southern Africa | 4,481,651 | 6.7 |
 Botswana | 110,596 | 4.8 |
 Eswatini | 32,310 | 2.8 |
 Lesotho | 6,928 | 0.3 |
 Namibia | 107,561 | 4.3 |
 South Africa | 4,224,256 | 7.2 |
| Western Africa | 7,398,379 | 1.9 |
 Benin | 390,112 | 3.3 |
 Burkina Faso | 718,338 | 3.5 |
 Cabo Verde | 15,664 | 2.8 |
 Côte d'Ivoire | 2,549,141 | 9.9 |
 Gambia | 215,406 | 9.2 |
 Ghana | 466,780 | 1.5 |
 Guinea | 120,642 | 0.9 |
 Guinea-Bissau | 26,916 | 1.4 |
 Liberia | 94,448 | 1.9 |
 Mali | 468,230 | 2.4 |
 Mauritania | 172,987 | 3.8 |
 Niger | 294,161 | 1.3 |
 Nigeria | 1,256,408 | 0.6 |
 Saint Helena | 433 | 7.1 |
 Senegal | 275,239 | 1.7 |
 Sierra Leone | 54,332 | 0.7 |
 Togo | 279,142 | 3.5 |
| NORTHERN AFRICA AND WESTERN ASIA | 48,591,390 | 9.4 |
| Northern Africa | 2,955,849 | 1.2 |
 Algeria | 249,075 | 0.6 |
 Egypt | 504,053 | 0.5 |
 Libya | 818,216 | 12.1 |
 Morocco | 98,574 | 0.3 |
 Sudan | 1,223,092 | 2.9 |
 Tunisia | 57,455 | 0.5 |
 Western Sahara | 5,384 | 0.9 |
| Western Asia | 45,635,541 | 16.6 |
 Armenia | 190,159 | 6.4 |
 Azerbaijan | 253,887 | 2.5 |
 Bahrain | 741,161 | 45.2 |
 Cyprus | 191,922 | 16.0 |
 Georgia | 79,035 | 2.0 |
 Iraq | 368,062 | 0.9 |
 Israel | 1,956,346 | 23.0 |
 Jordan | 3,346,703 | 33.1 |
 Kuwait | 3,034,845 | 72.1 |
 Lebanon | 1,863,873 | 27.2 |
 Oman | 2,286,226 | 46.0 |
 Qatar | 2,229,688 | 78.7 |
 Saudi Arabia | 13,122,338 | 38.3 |
 State of Palestine | 253,735 | 5.1 |
 Syrian Arab Republic | 867,848 | 5.1 |
 Turkey | 5,876,829 | 7.0 |
 United Arab Emirates | 8,587,256 | 87.9 |
 Yemen | 385,628 | 1.3 |
| CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ASIA | 19,627,025 | 1.0 |
| Central Asia | 5,543,398 | 7.6 |
 Kazakhstan | 3,705,556 | 20.0 |
 Kyrgyzstan | 200,260 | 3.1 |
 Tajikistan | 274,071 | 2.9 |
 Turkmenistan | 195,127 | 3.3 |
 Uzbekistan | 1,168,384 | 3.5 |
| Southern Asia | 14,083,627 | 0.7 |
 Afghanistan | 149,762 | 0.4 |
 Bangladesh | 2,185,613 | 1.3 |
 Bhutan | 53,254 | 7.0 |
 India | 5,154,737 | 0.4 |
 Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 2,682,214 | 3.2 |
 Maldives | 69,249 | 13.0 |
 Nepal | 490,802 | 1.7 |
 Pakistan | 3,257,978 | 1.5 |
 Sri Lanka | 40,018 | 0.2 |
| EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA | 18,296,631 | 0.8 |
| Eastern Asia | 8,105,764 | 0.5 |
 China | 1,030,871 | 0.1 |
 China, Hong Kong SAR | 2,942,254 | 39.6 |
 China, Macao SAR | 399,572 | 62.4 |
 North Korea | 49,393 | 0.2 |
 Japan | 2,498,891 | 2.0 |
 Mongolia | 21,128 | 0.7 |
 South Korea | 1,163,655 | 2.3 |
| South-Eastern Asia | 10,190,867 | 1.5 |
 Brunei Darussalam | 110,641 | 25.5 |
 Cambodia | 78,649 | 0.5 |
 Indonesia | 353,135 | 0.1 |
 Lao People's Democratic Republic | 48,275 | 0.7 |
 Malaysia | 3,430,380 | 10.7 |
 Myanmar | 75,998 | 0.1 |
 Philippines | 218,530 | 0.2 |
 Singapore | 2,155,653 | 37.1 |
 Thailand | 3,635,085 | 5.2 |
 Timor-Leste | 8,417 | 0.7 |
 Vietnam | 76,104 | 0.1 |
| LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN | 11,673,288 | 1.8 |
 Caribbean | 1,524,793 | 3.5 |
 Anguilla | 5,679 | 38.2 |
 Antigua and Barbuda | 29,207 | 30.1 |
 Aruba | 36,532 | 34.4 |
 Bahamas | 62,962 | 16.2 |
 Barbados | 34,807 | 12.1 |
 British Virgin Islands | 20,778 | 69.2 |
 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba | 15,484 | 59.6 |
 Cayman Islands | 28,985 | 44.6 |
 Cuba | 4,886 | 0.0 |
 Curaçao | 40,883 | 25.0 |
 Dominica | 8,264 | 11.5 |
 Dominican Republic | 567,648 | 5.3 |
 Grenada | 7,124 | 6.4 |
| Guadeloupe | 100,030 | 22.3 |
 Haiti | 18,756 | 0.2 |
 Jamaica | 23,468 | 0.8 |
| Martinique | 61,647 | 16.4 |
 Montserrat | 1,375 | 27.6 |
 Puerto Rico | 266,828 | 9.1 |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis | 7,587 | 14.4 |
 Saint Lucia | 8,383 | 4.6 |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 4,692 | 4.2 |
 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 28,260 | 66.7 |
 Trinidad and Tobago | 59,249 | 4.2 |
 Turks and Caicos Islands | 24,534 | 64.2 |
 United States Virgin Islands | 56,745 | 54.3 |
 Central America | 1,927,688 | 1.1 |
 Belize | 59,998 | 15.4 |
 Costa Rica | 417,768 | 8.3 |
 El Salvador | 42,617 | 0.7 |
 Guatemala | 80,421 | 0.5 |
 Honduras | 38,933 | 0.4 |
 Mexico | 1,060,707 | 0.8 |
 Nicaragua | 42,172 | 0.6 |
 Panama | 185,072 | 4.4 |
| South America | 8,220,807 | 1.9 |
 Argentina | 2,212,879 | 4.9 |
 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 156,114 | 1.4 |
 Brazil | 807,006 | 0.4 |
 Chile | 939,992 | 5.0 |
 Colombia | 1,142,319 | 2.3 |
 Ecuador | 381,507 | 2.2 |
 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | 1,902 | 56.3 |
| French Guiana | 117,372 | 40.4 |
 Guyana | 15,699 | 2.0 |
 Paraguay | 160,519 | 2.3 |
 Peru | 782,169 | 2.4 |
 Suriname | 46,157 | 7.9 |
 Uruguay | 81,482 | 2.4 |
 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 1,375,690 | 4.8 |
| OCEANIA | 8,927,925 | 21.2 |
| Australia / New Zealand | 8,618,009 | 28.7 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Australia | 7,549,270 | 30.0 |
 New Zealand | 1,068,739 | 22.3 |
| Melanesia | 123,564 | 1.1 |
 Fiji | 14,038 | 1.6 |
 New Caledonia | 72,537 | 25.7 |
 Papua New Guinea | 31,212 | 0.4 |
 Solomon Islands | 2,532 | 0.4 |
 Vanuatu | 3,245 | 1.1 |
 Micronesia | 117,978 | 21.7 |
 Guam | 79,846 | 47.7 |
 Kiribati | 3,022 | 2.6 |
 Marshall Islands | 3,296 | 5.6 |
| Micronesia | 2,819 | 2.5 |
 Nauru | 2,114 | 19.7 |
 Northern Mariana Islands | 21,815 | 38.1 |
 Palau | 5,066 | 28.1 |
| Polynesia | 68,374 | 10.1 |
 American Samoa | 23,539 | 42.6 |
 Cook Islands | 3,491 | 19.9 |
 French Polynesia | 31,205 | 11.2 |
 Niue | 588 | 36.4 |
 Samoa | 4,035 | 2.0 |
 Tokelau | 504 | 37.6 |
 Tonga | 3,752 | 3.6 |
 Tuvalu | 238 | 2.0 |
| Wallis and Futuna | 1,022 | 8.9 |
| EUROPE AND NORTHERN AMERICA | 140,952,361 | 12.7 |
| EUROPE | 82,304,539 | 11.0 |
| Eastern Europe | 20,278,745 | 6.9 |
 Belarus | 1,069,395 | 11.3 |
 Bulgaria | 168,516 | 2.4 |
 Czech Republic | 512,705 | 4.8 |
 Hungary | 512,043 | 5.3 |
 Poland | 655,985 | 1.7 |
 Republic of Moldova | 104,713 | 2.6 |
 Romania | 462,552 | 2.4 |
 Russian Federation | 11,640,559 | 8.0 |
 Slovakia | 187,984 | 3.4 |
 Ukraine | 4,964,293 | 11.3 |
| Northern Europe | 15,094,924 | 14.3 |
| Channel Islands | 83,833 | 48.7 |
 Denmark | 722,878 | 12.5 |
 Estonia | 190,242 | 14.4 |
 Faroe Islands | 6,454 | 13.3 |
 Finland | 383,116 | 6.9 |
 Iceland | 52,404 | 15.5 |
 Ireland | 833,564 | 17.1 |
 Isle of Man | 42,864 | 50.7 |
 Latvia | 237,266 | 12.4 |
 Lithuania | 117,218 | 4.2 |
 Norway | 867,765 | 16.1 |
 Sweden | 2,005,210 | 20.0 |
 United Kingdom | 9,552,110 | 14.1 |
| Southern Europe | 16,503,552 | 10.8 |
 Albania | 49,160 | 1.7 |
 Andorra | 45,102 | 58.5 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina | 35,735 | 1.1 |
 Croatia | 518,083 | 12.5 |
 Gibraltar | 11,172 | 33.2 |
 Greece | 1,211,382 | 11.6 |
 Holy See | 799 | 100.0 |
 Italy | 6,273,722 | 10.4 |
 Malta | 84,949 | 19.3 |
 Montenegro | 70,967 | 11.3 |
 North Macedonia | 131,175 | 6.3 |
 Portugal | 888,162 | 8.7 |
 San Marino | 5,507 | 16.3 |
 Serbia | 820,312 | 9.4 |
 Slovenia | 253,122 | 12.2 |
 Spain | 6,104,203 | 13.1 |
| Western Europe | 30,427,318 | 15.6 |
 Austria | 1,779,857 | 19.9 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Belgium | 1,981,919 | 17.2 |
| France | 8,334,875 | 12.8 |
 Germany | 13,132,146 | 15.7 |
 Liechtenstein | 25,467 | 67.0 |
 Luxembourg | 291,723 | 47.4 |
 Monaco | 26,511 | 68.0 |
| Netherlands | 2,282,791 | 13.4 |
 Switzerland | 2,572,029 | 29.9 |
| NORTHERN AMERICA | 58,647,822 | 16.0 |
 Bermuda | 19,336 | 30.9 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Canada | 7,960,657 | 21.3 |
 Greenland | 5,690 | 10.0 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 990 | 17.0 |
 United States of America | 50,661,149 | 15.4 |
UN 2019 report: emigrant population
See also
References
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