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.
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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]
| Immigrants | width=150pt | % of total population | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 321,018 | 2.8 | ||
| 12,504 | 1.5 | ||
| 115,341 | 11.8 | ||
| 16,101 | 0.5 | ||
| 1,253,083 | 1.1 | ||
| 1,044,854 | 2.0 | ||
| 34,934 | 0.1 | ||
| 247,652 | 1.3 | ||
| 28,849 | 2.3 | ||
| 74,643 | 28.0 | ||
| 334,665 | 1.1 | ||
| 129,153 | 14.5 | ||
| 539,932 | 4.3 | ||
| 12,926 | 13.2 | ||
| 52,131 | 0.3 | ||
| 865,552 | 7.8 | ||
| 1,734,166 | 3.9 | ||
| 509,166 | 0.9 | ||
| 170,249 | 1.0 | ||
| 411,257 | 2.8 | ||
| Middle Africa | 3,785,279 | 2.2 | |
| 669,479 | 2.1 | ||
| 505,692 | 2.0 | ||
| 90,649 | 1.9 | ||
| 512,230 | 3.2 | ||
| 402,142 | 7.5 | ||
| 963,833 | 1.1 | ||
| 227,617 | 16.8 | ||
| 411,463 | 18.9 | ||
| 2,174 | 1.0 | ||
| Southern Africa | 4,481,651 | 6.7 | |
| 110,596 | 4.8 | ||
| 32,310 | 2.8 | ||
| 6,928 | 0.3 | ||
| 107,561 | 4.3 | ||
| 4,224,256 | 7.2 | ||
| Western Africa | 7,398,379 | 1.9 | |
| 390,112 | 3.3 | ||
| 718,338 | 3.5 | ||
| 15,664 | 2.8 | ||
| 2,549,141 | 9.9 | ||
| 215,406 | 9.2 | ||
| 466,780 | 1.5 | ||
| 120,642 | 0.9 | ||
| 26,916 | 1.4 | ||
| 94,448 | 1.9 | ||
| 468,230 | 2.4 | ||
| 172,987 | 3.8 | ||
| 294,161 | 1.3 | ||
| 1,256,408 | 0.6 | ||
| 433 | 7.1 | ||
| 275,239 | 1.7 | ||
| 54,332 | 0.7 | ||
| 279,142 | 3.5 | ||
| NORTHERN AFRICA AND WESTERN ASIA | 48,591,390 | 9.4 | |
| Northern Africa | 2,955,849 | 1.2 | |
| 249,075 | 0.6 | ||
| 504,053 | 0.5 | ||
| 818,216 | 12.1 | ||
| 98,574 | 0.3 | ||
| 1,223,092 | 2.9 | ||
| 57,455 | 0.5 | ||
| 5,384 | 0.9 | ||
| Western Asia | 45,635,541 | 16.6 | |
| 190,159 | 6.4 | ||
| 253,887 | 2.5 | ||
| 741,161 | 45.2 | ||
| 191,922 | 16.0 | ||
| 79,035 | 2.0 | ||
| 368,062 | 0.9 | ||
| 1,956,346 | 23.0 | ||
| 3,346,703 | 33.1 | ||
| 3,034,845 | 72.1 | ||
| 1,863,873 | 27.2 | ||
| 2,286,226 | 46.0 | ||
| 2,229,688 | 78.7 | ||
| 13,122,338 | 38.3 | ||
| 867,848 | 5.1 | ||
| 5,876,829 | 7.0 | ||
| 8,587,256 | 87.9 | ||
| 385,628 | 1.3 | ||
| CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ASIA | 19,627,025 | 1.0 | |
| Central Asia | 5,543,398 | 7.6 | |
| 3,705,556 | 20.0 | ||
| 200,260 | 3.1 | ||
| 274,071 | 2.9 | ||
| 195,127 | 3.3 | ||
| 1,168,384 | 3.5 | ||
| Southern Asia | 14,083,627 | 0.7 | |
| 149,762 | 0.4 | ||
| 2,185,613 | 1.3 | ||
| 53,254 | 7.0 | ||
| 5,154,737 | 0.4 | ||
| 2,682,214 | 3.2 | ||
| 69,249 | 13.0 | ||
| 490,802 | 1.7 | ||
| 3,257,978 | 1.5 | ||
| 40,018 | 0.2 | ||
| EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA | 18,296,631 | 0.8 | |
| Eastern Asia | 8,105,764 | 0.5 | |
| 1,030,871 | 0.1 | ||
| 2,942,254 | 39.6 | ||
| 399,572 | 62.4 | ||
| 49,393 | 0.2 | ||
| 2,498,891 | 2.0 | ||
| 21,128 | 0.7 | ||
| 1,163,655 | 2.3 | ||
| South-Eastern Asia | 10,190,867 | 1.5 | |
| 110,641 | 25.5 | ||
| 78,649 | 0.5 | ||
| 353,135 | 0.1 | ||
| 48,275 | 0.7 | ||
| 3,430,380 | 10.7 | ||
| 75,998 | 0.1 | ||
| 218,530 | 0.2 | ||
| 2,155,653 | 37.1 | ||
| 3,635,085 | 5.2 | ||
| 8,417 | 0.7 | ||
| 76,104 | 0.1 | ||
| LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN | 11,673,288 | 1.8 | |
| 1,524,793 | 3.5 | ||
| 5,679 | 38.2 | ||
| 29,207 | 30.1 | ||
| 36,532 | 34.4 | ||
| 62,962 | 16.2 | ||
| 34,807 | 12.1 | ||
| 20,778 | 69.2 | ||
| 15,484 | 59.6 | ||
| 28,985 | 44.6 | ||
| 4,886 | 0.0 | ||
| 40,883 | 25.0 | ||
| 8,264 | 11.5 | ||
| 567,648 | 5.3 | ||
| 7,124 | 6.4 | ||
| 100,030 | 22.3 | ||
| 18,756 | 0.2 | ||
| 23,468 | 0.8 | ||
| 61,647 | 16.4 | ||
| 1,375 | 27.6 | ||
| 266,828 | 9.1 | ||
| 7,587 | 14.4 | ||
| 8,383 | 4.6 | ||
| 4,692 | 4.2 | ||
| 28,260 | 66.7 | ||
| 59,249 | 4.2 | ||
| 24,534 | 64.2 | ||
| 56,745 | 54.3 | ||
| Central America | 1,927,688 | 1.1 | |
| 59,998 | 15.4 | ||
| 417,768 | 8.3 | ||
| 42,617 | 0.7 | ||
| 80,421 | 0.5 | ||
| 38,933 | 0.4 | ||
| 1,060,707 | 0.8 | ||
| 42,172 | 0.6 | ||
| 185,072 | 4.4 | ||
| South America | 8,820,807 | 2.9 | |
| 2,212,879 | 4.9 | ||
| 156,114 | 1.4 | ||
| 807,006 | 0.4 | ||
| 1,625,074 | 8.7 | ||
| 1,142,319 | 2.3 | ||
| 381,507 | 2.2 | ||
| 1,902 | 56.3 | ||
| 117,372 | 40.4 | ||
| 15,699 | 2.0 | ||
| 160,519 | 2.3 | ||
| 782,169 | 2.4 | ||
| 46,157 | 7.9 | ||
| 81,482 | 2.4 | ||
| 1,375,690 | 4.8 | ||
| OCEANIA | 8,927,925 | 21.2 | |
| Australia / New Zealand | 8,618,009 | 28.7 | |
| 7,549,270 | 30.0 | ||
| 1,401,866 | 27.4 | ||
| Melanesia | 123,564 | 1.1 | |
| 14,038 | 1.6 | ||
| 72,537 | 25.7 | ||
| 31,212 | 0.4 | ||
| 2,532 | 0.4 | ||
| 3,245 | 1.1 | ||
| Micronesia | 117,978 | 21.7 | |
| 79,846 | 47.7 | ||
| 3,022 | 2.6 | ||
| 3,296 | 5.6 | ||
| 2,819 | 2.5 | ||
| 2,114 | 19.7 | ||
| 21,815 | 38.1 | ||
| 5,066 | 28.1 | ||
| Polynesia | 68,374 | 10.1 | |
| 23,539 | 42.6 | ||
| 3,491 | 19.9 | ||
| 31,205 | 11.2 | ||
| 588 | 36.4 | ||
| 4,035 | 2.0 | ||
| 504 | 37.6 | ||
| 3,752 | 3.6 | ||
| 238 | 2.0 | ||
| 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 | |
| 1,069,395 | 11.3 | ||
| 168,516 | 2.4 | ||
| 512,705 | 4.8 | ||
| 512,043 | 5.3 | ||
| 655,985 | 1.7 | ||
| 104,713 | 2.6 | ||
| 462,552 | 2.4 | ||
| 11,640,559 | 8.0 | ||
| 187,984 | 3.4 | ||
| 4,964,293 | 11.3 | ||
| Northern Europe | 15,094,924 | 14.3 | |
| Channel Islands | 83,833 | 48.7 | |
| 722,878 | 12.5 | ||
| 190,242 | 14.4 | ||
| 6,454 | 13.3 | ||
| 383,116 | 6.9 | ||
| 52,404 | 15.5 | ||
| 833,564 | 17.1 | ||
| 42,864 | 50.7 | ||
| 237,266 | 12.4 | ||
| 117,218 | 4.2 | ||
| 867,765 | 16.1 | ||
| 2,005,210 | 20.0 | ||
| 9,552,110 | 14.1 | ||
| Southern Europe | 16,503,552 | 10.8 | |
| 49,160 | 1.7 | ||
| 45,102 | 58.5 | ||
| 35,735 | 1.1 | ||
| 518,083 | 12.5 | ||
| 11,172 | 33.2 | ||
| 1,211,382 | 11.6 | ||
| 799 | 100.0 | ||
| 6,273,722 | 10.4 | ||
| 84,949 | 19.3 | ||
| 70,967 | 11.3 | ||
| 131,175 | 6.3 | ||
| 888,162 | 8.7 | ||
| 5,507 | 16.3 | ||
| 820,312 | 9.4 | ||
| 253,122 | 12.2 | ||
| 7,231,195 | 15.2 | ||
| Western Europe | 30,427,318 | 15.6 | |
| 1,779,857 | 19.9 | ||
| 1,981,919 | 17.2 | ||
| 9,589,322 | 14.1 | ||
| 13,132,146 | 15.7 | ||
| 25,467 | 67.0 | ||
| 291,723 | 47.4 | ||
| 26,511 | 68.0 | ||
| 2,282,791 | 13.4 | ||
| 2,572,029 | 29.9 | ||
| NORTHERN AMERICA | 58,647,822 | 16.0 | |
| 19,336 | 30.9 | ||
| 7,960,657 | 21.3 | ||
| 5,690 | 10.0 | ||
| 990 | 17.0 | ||
| 50,661,149 | 15.4 |
| Emigrants | width=150pt | Article | |
|---|---|---|---|
| World | 271,642,105 | ||
| Other South | 7,950,425 | ||
| Other North | 3,407,920 | ||
| 5,120,756 | Afghan diaspora | ||
| 1,207,032 | Albanian diaspora | ||
| 1,944,784 | |||
| 1,817 | |||
| 9,114 | |||
| 661,590 | |||
| 2,707 | |||
| 55,089 | |||
| 1,013,414 | |||
| 964,848 | Armenian diaspora | ||
| 19,640 | |||
| 577,255 | Australian diaspora | ||
| 575,950 | Austrians Abroad | ||
| 1,155,852 | Azerbaijani diaspora | ||
| 46,467 | |||
| 60,153 | |||
| 7,835,152 | Bangladeshi diaspora | ||
| 112,925 | |||
| 1,480,794 | Belarusian diaspora | ||
| 581,740 | |||
| 68,144 | |||
| 666,357 | |||
| 18,049 | |||
| 49,216 | |||
| 878,211 | |||
| 12,764 | |||
| 1,653,056 | Bosnian diaspora | ||
| 86,501 | |||
| 1,745,339 | Brazilian diaspora | ||
| 5,417 | |||
| 46,977 | |||
| 1,541,860 | Bulgarian diaspora | ||
| 1,581,083 | |||
| 623,999 | |||
| 186,372 | |||
| 1,097,884 | |||
| 383,029 | |||
| 1,323,087 | Canadian diaspora | ||
| 1,973 | |||
| 767,884 | |||
| 206,400 | |||
| 22,545 | |||
| 650,151 | |||
| 10,732,281 | Chinese diaspora | ||
| 1,110,358 | Emigration from Hong Kong | ||
| 161,930 | |||
| 2,869,032 | Colombian diaspora | ||
| 120,297 | |||
| 239,397 | |||
| 22,488 | |||
| 150,400 | |||
| 1,114,003 | |||
| 990,012 | Croatian diaspora | ||
| 1,654,684 | Cuban diaspora | ||
| 123,132 | |||
| 214,648 | Greek Cypriot diaspora | ||
| 911,388 | Czech diaspora | ||
| 113,118 | Korean diaspora | ||
| 1,684,615 | |||
| 255,616 | |||
| 18,668 | |||
| 78,634 | |||
| 1,558,668 | |||
| 1,183,685 | Emigration from Ecuador | ||
| 3,547,626 | Egyptian diaspora | ||
| 1,600,739 | |||
| 125,670 | |||
| 751,481 | |||
| 208,257 | |||
| 108,188 | |||
| 871,747 | |||
| 1,623 | |||
| 13,838 | |||
| 222,633 | |||
| 290,006 | Finnish diaspora | ||
| 2,296,534 | French diaspora | ||
| 4,555 | |||
| 1,982 | |||
| 46,684 | |||
| 118,483 | |||
| 852,816 | Georgian diaspora | ||
| 4,014,203 | German diaspora | ||
| 970,625 | |||
| 14,320 | |||
| 1,039,257 | Greek diaspora | ||
| 18,684 | |||
| 75,784 | |||
| 11,856 | |||
| 2,197 | |||
| 1,205,644 | |||
| 530,963 | |||
| 103,587 | |||
| 520,196 | |||
| 1,585,681 | |||
| 217 | |||
| 800,707 | |||
| 632,126 | Hungarian diaspora | ||
| 42,186 | Icelandic diaspora | ||
| 17,510,931 | Indian diaspora | ||
| 4,532,992 | Indonesian diaspora | ||
| 4,037,258[2] | Iranian diaspora | ||
| 2,033,522 | Iraqi diaspora | ||
| 816,797 | Irish diaspora | ||
| 12,809 | |||
| 369,935 | Yordim | ||
| 3,077,777 | Italian diaspora | ||
| 1,111,021 | Jamaican diaspora | ||
| 838,852 | Japanese diaspora | ||
| 784,377 | |||
| 4,005,587 | |||
| 525,437 | |||
| 4,370 | |||
| 205,382 | |||
| 754,969 | |||
| 1,347,034 | Laotian diaspora | ||
| 332,220 | Latvian diaspora | ||
| 844,158 | Lebanese diaspora | ||
| 341,580 | |||
| 219,338 | |||
| 180,586 | |||
| 3,713 | |||
| 610,223 | |||
| 75,470 | |||
| 184,762 | |||
| 324,541 | |||
| 1,689,222 | Malaysian diaspora | ||
| 3,053 | Maldivian diaspora | ||
| 1,264,700 | |||
| 111,137 | Emigration from Malta | ||
| 8,205 | |||
| 13,919 | |||
| 128,506 | |||
| 188,344 | |||
| 6,617 | |||
| 11,796,178 | Emigration from Mexico | ||
| 21,819 | |||
| 31,452 | |||
| 73,488 | Mongolian diaspora | ||
| 153,009 | |||
| 22,838 | |||
| 3,136,069 | Moroccan diaspora | ||
| 1,013,416 | |||
| 3,699,472 | Burmese diaspora | ||
| 195,515 | |||
| 2,421 | |||
| 2,285,364 | Overseas Nepali | ||
| 980,753 | Dutch diaspora | ||
| 5,098 | |||
| 777,303 | |||
| 682,865 | |||
| 401,653 | |||
| 1,438,331 | |||
| 5,593 | |||
| 658,264 | Macedonian diaspora | ||
| 2,764 | |||
| 202,336 | Norwegian diaspora | ||
| 24,939 | |||
| 6,303,286 | Pakistani diaspora | ||
| 2,650 | |||
| 161,107 | |||
| 219,126 | |||
| 871,638 | |||
| 1,512,920 | |||
| 5,377,337 | Overseas Filipinos | ||
| 4,446,985 | Polish diaspora | ||
| 2,631,559 | |||
| 5,807,347 | |||
| 171,632 | |||
| 1,013,417 | Moldovan diaspora | ||
| 133,769 | |||
| 3,572,794 | Romanian diaspora | ||
| 10,491,715 | Russian diaspora | ||
| 588,544 | |||
| 6,596 | |||
| 124,941 | |||
| 63,605 | |||
| 2,356 | |||
| 60,655 | |||
| 124,403 | |||
| 2,425 | |||
| 37,013 | |||
| 296,254 | |||
| 642,654 | |||
| 950,485 | Serbian diaspora | ||
| 36,788 | |||
| 187,102 | |||
| 340,751 | Overseas Singaporean | ||
| 29,209 | |||
| 345,683 | Slovak diaspora | ||
| 147,593 | Slovene diaspora | ||
| 4,234 | |||
| 2,054,377 | Somali diaspora | ||
| 824,601 | South African diaspora | ||
| 2,176,580 | Korean diaspora | ||
| 2,608,218 | South Sudanese diaspora | ||
| 1,444,942 | Spanish diaspora | ||
| 1,775,768 | Sri Lankan diaspora | ||
| 3,890,650 | Palestinian diaspora | ||
| 2,040,613 | |||
| 423,517 | |||
| 353,825 | Swedish diaspora | ||
| 679,796 | Swiss abroad | ||
| 8,225,499 | Syrian diaspora | ||
| 597,959 | |||
| 1,020,119 | |||
| 39,202 | |||
| 543,277 | |||
| 2,242 | |||
| 74,433 | |||
| 334,304 | |||
| 813,213 | |||
| 3,493,071 | Turkish diaspora | ||
| 260,832 | |||
| 31,033 | |||
| 3,276 | |||
| 734,951 | |||
| 5,901,067 | Ukrainian diaspora | ||
| 154,404 | Emirati diaspora | ||
| 4,274,998 | British diaspora | ||
| 323,173 | |||
| 4,779,929 | American diaspora[3] | ||
| 25,863 | |||
| 633,439 | Emigration from Uruguay | ||
| 1,979,523 | |||
| 7,346 | |||
| 2,519,780 | Venezuelan diaspora | ||
| 2,683,954 | Overseas Vietnamese | ||
| 11,820 | |||
| 195,572 | |||
| 1,267,610 | Yemeni diaspora | ||
| 493,087 | |||
| 933,654 | Zimbabwean diaspora |