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International migrant stock (% of population) - Migration - Labor & Social Protection - World Development Indicators

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International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained mainly from population censuses. The estimates are derived from the data on foreign-born population--people who have residence in one country but were born in another country. When data on the foreign-born population are not available, data on foreign population--that is, people who are citizens of a country other than the country in which they reside--are used as estimates. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 people living in one of the newly independent countries who were born in another were classified as international migrants. Estimates of migrant stock in the newly independent states from 1990 on are based on the 1989 census of the Soviet Union. For countries with information on the international migrant stock for at least two points in time, interpolation or extrapolation was used to estimate the international migrant stock on July 1 of the reference years. For countries with only one observation, estimates for the reference years were derived using rates of change in the migrant stock in the years preceding or following the single observation available. A model was used to estimate migrants for countries that had no data.

International migrant stock (% of population) - Migration - Labor & Social Protection - World Development Indicators (2005) Rank Country Value 1 Qatar 80.51 2 Cayman Islands 76.45 3 Kuwait 73.74 4 United Arab Emirates 70.02 5 Monaco 69.77 6 Andorra 64.73 7 Northern Mariana Islands 63.39 8 Macau 57.02 9 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 54.02 10 Isle of Man 51.82 11 West Bank and Gaza 46.45 12 Channel Islands 46.04 13 Guam 45.38 14 Jordan 43.34 15 American Samoa 42.29 16 Hong Kong 39.94 17 Israel 38.40 18 Bahrain 38.23 19 San Marino 38.20 20 Singapore 35.02 21 Liechtenstein 34.22 22 Luxembourg 33.58 23 Brunei Darussalam 33.56 24 Aruba 33.08 25 Mayotte 32.28 26 High income: nonOECD 31.74 27 Palau 30.26 28 Bermuda 29.53 29 Saudi Arabia 27.41 30 Oman 25.45 31 Netherlands Antilles 24.98 32 New Caledonia 23.24 33 Switzerland 22.32 34 Antigua and Barbuda 21.81 35 Australia 21.26 36 New Zealand 20.74 37 Kazakhstan 19.63 38 Canada 19.51 39 Gabon 17.86 40 Lebanon 17.67 41 Latvia 16.50 42 Armenia 16.07 43 Gambia 15.18 44 Estonia 14.98 45 Croatia 14.89 46 Ireland 14.85 47 Austria 14.04 48 Belize 13.92 49 Cyprus 13.89 50 Djibouti 13.71 51 United States 13.29 52 Germany 12.85 53 French Polynesia 12.73 54 Sweden 12.33 55 Ivory Coast 12.32 56 Greenland 11.74 57 Moldova 11.71 58 High income 11.45 59 Ukraine 11.44 60 Belarus 11.32 61 France 10.64 62 Netherlands 10.63 63 Spain 10.62 64 Grenada 10.58 65 Libya 10.43 66 Barbados 10.36 67 Costa Rica 10.23 68 Seychelles 10.18 69 High income: OECD 9.95 70 Euro area 9.87 71 Bahamas 9.72 72 United Kingdom 9.69 73 St. Kitts and Nevis 9.41 74 Serbia 9.07 75 Puerto Rico 9.01 76 Greece 8.78 77 Montenegro 8.74 78 Russia 8.44 79 Belgium 8.42 80 Slovenia 8.36 81 Norway 8.02 82 Malaysia 7.92 83 Denmark 7.77 84 Ghana 7.62 85 Iceland 7.61 86 Portugal 7.24 87 Syria 6.94 88 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 6.82 89 Suriname 6.80 90 Europe & Central Asia 6.59 91 Namibia 6.55 92 Dominica 6.29 93 Faroe Islands 6.27 94 Macedonia 5.91 95 Bhutan 5.75 96 Burkina Faso 5.62 97 Kyrgyzstan 5.60 98 St. Lucia 5.27 99 Italy 5.23 100 Uzbekistan 4.85 101 Rwanda 4.85 102 Lithuania 4.84 103 Tajikistan 4.69 104 Turkmenistan 4.62 105 Czech Republic 4.43 106 Botswana 4.36 107 Guinea 4.35 108 Georgia 4.28 109 Dominican Republic 4.12 110 Samoa 4 111 Argentina 3.86 112 Venezuela 3.81 113 Republic of the Congo 3.77 114 Chad 3.58 115 Sao Tome and Principe 3.53 116 Swaziland 3.43 117 Upper middle income 3.32 118 Hungary 3.30 119 Mauritius 3.28 120 Finland 3.27 121 Middle East & North Africa 3.25 122 Panama 3.16 123 Zimbabwe 3.14 124 Togo 3.05 125 Azerbaijan 3.03 126 Nepal 3.01 127 Marshall Islands 2.99 128 Iran 2.98 129 Sierra Leone 2.98 130 Liberia 2.90 131 Malta 2.89 132 Trinidad and Tobago 2.87 133 Paraguay 2.85 134 Albania 2.66 135 South Africa 2.66 136 Micronesia 2.63 137 Uruguay 2.54 138 Zambia 2.45 139 Benin 2.38 140 Cape Verde 2.34 141 Slovakia 2.31 142 Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 2.28 143 Pakistan 2.28 144 Comoros 2.27 145 Uganda 2.27 146 Kenya 2.21 147 Mauritania 2.21 148 Cambodia 2.19 149 Yemen 2.17 150 Kiribati 2.17 151 Poland 2.16 152 Sub-Saharan Africa 2.14 153 Fiji 2.07 154 Tanzania 2.05 155 Malawi 2.04 156 Mozambique 1.95 157 Senegal 1.95 158 Turkey 1.87 159 Sri Lanka 1.86 160 Central African Republic 1.84 161 Sudan 1.65 162 Low income 1.62 163 Japan 1.56 164 Thailand 1.49 165 Low & middle income 1.43 166 Least developed countries: UN classification 1.43 167 Chile 1.42 168 Niger 1.40 169 Mali 1.40 170 Middle income 1.40 171 Solomon Islands 1.37 172 Bulgaria 1.34 173 Guyana 1.31 174 Guinea-Bissau 1.31 175 Bolivia 1.24 176 Timor-Leste 1.20 177 Cameroon 1.19 178 South Korea 1.15 179 North Korea 1.15 180 Tonga 1.14 181 Burundi 1.11 182 Latin America & Caribbean 1.09 183 Maldives 1.08 184 Jamaica 1.03 185 Equatorial Guinea 0.95 186 Ecuador 0.95 187 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.93 188 Lower middle income 0.90 189 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.81 190 South Asia 0.80 191 Ethiopia 0.74 192 Algeria 0.74 193 Nigeria 0.69 194 Bangladesh 0.67 195 Nicaragua 0.64 196 Romania 0.62 197 El Salvador 0.59 198 Mexico 0.59 199 India 0.54 200 Vanuatu 0.48 201 Iraq 0.45 202 Philippines 0.44 203 Papua New Guinea 0.42 204 Guatemala 0.42 205 Honduras 0.38 206 Brazil 0.37 207 Mongolia 0.36 208 Tunisia 0.35 209 Angola 0.34 210 Laos 0.34 211 Eritrea 0.33 212 Haiti 0.32 213 Egypt 0.32 214 Afghanistan 0.32 215 Lesotho 0.31 216 Colombia 0.26 217 Somalia 0.25 218 East Asia & Pacific 0.25 219 Madagascar 0.23 220 Burma 0.19 221 Morocco 0.17 222 Peru 0.15 223 Cuba 0.14 224 Vietnam 0.07 225 Indonesia 0.06 226 China 0.05

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