List of countries by immigrant population

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This is a list of countries by immigrant population, based on United Nations' (UN) World Population Policies 2005 publication , released by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. The total immigrant population was estimated to be 186,579,300. UN member and observer states are ranked.

Rank	State	Number of immigrants	Percentage of total number of immigrants in the world	Immigrants as percentage of state population	Notes
1		38,355,000	20.56	12.81
2		12,080,000	6.474	8.483
3		10,144,000	5.437	12.31
4		6,833,000	3.662	14.7
5		6,471,000	3.468	10.18
6		6,361,000	3.409	25.25
7		6,106,000	3.272	18.76
8		5,700,000	3.055	0.517
9		5,408,000	2.898	8.982
10		4,790,000	2.567	10.79
11		4,097,000	2.196	19.93
12	People's Republic of China	3,852,000	2.064	0.2944	does not include Hong Kong (SAR) and Macau (SAR)
13		3,254,000	1.744	1.984
14		3,212,000	1.722	71.4
—	(PR China)	2,999,000	1.607	42.59
15		2,661,000	1.426	37.87
16		2,519,000	1.35	4.288
17		2,502,000	1.341	16.88
18		2,371,000	1.271	13.06
19		2,225,000	1.193	39.01
20		2,048,000	1.098	1.599
21		1,959,000	1.05	2.861
22		1,843,000	0.9878	42.6
—		1,680,000	0.9004	45.38
23		1,669,000	0.8945	7.548
24		1,669,000	0.8945	62.11
25		1,660,000	0.8897	22.89
26		1,639,000	0.8784	6.15
27		1,638,000	0.8779	10.05
28		1,500,000	0.8039	3.871
29		1,328,000	0.7118	1.814
30		1,268,000	0.6796	4.768
31		1,234,000	0.6614	14.9
32		1,191,000	0.6383	12.21
33		1,117,000	0.5987	12.3
34		1,106,000	0.5928	2.332
35		1,050,000	0.5628	1.635
36		1,032,000	0.5531	0.7277
37		1,010,000	0.5413	3.776
38		985,000	0.5279	5.173
39		974,000	0.522	8.662
40		971,000	0.5204	0.7382
41		819,000	0.5% or less	3.018
42		792,000	0.5% or less	2.066
43		773,000	0.5% or less	5.844
44		764,000	0.5% or less	7.204
45		719,000	0.5% or less	6.901
46		703,000	0.5% or less	1.843
47		661,000	0.5% or less	14.52
48		657,000	0.5% or less	16.96
49		644,000	0.5% or less	0.6017
50		642,000	0.5% or less	15.48
51		641,000	0.5% or less	0.3439
52		639,000	0.5% or less	1.727
53		637,000	0.5% or less	75.9
54		628,000	0.5% or less	24.46
55		618,000	0.5% or less	10.56
56		585,000	0.5% or less	13.81
57		555,000	0.5% or less	0.7393
58		551,000	0.5% or less	1.152
59		539,000	0.5% or less	0.9086
60		518,000	0.5% or less	1.876
61		512,000	0.5% or less	4.726	The UN report was produced before Montenegro and Serbia gained independence from each other on June 3, 2006
62		511,000	0.5% or less	3.928
63		453,000	0.5% or less	4.413
64		449,000	0.5% or less	19.46
65		441,000	0.5% or less	10.19
66		440,000	0.5% or less	12.96
67		437,000	0.5% or less	4.483
68		406,000	0.5% or less	2.051
69		406,000	0.5% or less	4.318
70		389,000	0.5% or less	7.163
71		374,000	0.5% or less	0.4503
72		368,000	0.5% or less	1.774
73		345,000	0.5% or less	1.007
74		344,000	0.5% or less	7.37
75		326,000	0.5% or less	2.796
76		316,000	0.5% or less	3.136
77		306,000	0.5% or less	4.703
78		304,000	0.5% or less	2.16
79		295,000	0.5% or less	42.22
80		288,000	0.5% or less	7.202
81		288,000	0.5% or less	5.471
82		282,000	0.5% or less	3.427
83		279,000	0.5% or less	2.165
84		275,000	0.5% or less	2.357
85		265,000	0.5% or less	1.263
—		257,000	0.5% or less	51.09
86		245,000	0.5% or less	17.7
87		242,000	0.5% or less	0.7366
88		235,000	0.5% or less	7.308
89		232,000	0.5% or less	15.29
90		231,000	0.5% or less	1.406
91		224,000	0.5% or less	4.634
92		202,000	0.5% or less	15.19
93		191,000	0.1% or less	4.269
94		183,000	0.1% or less	2.978
95		182,000	0.1% or less	2.164
96		175,000	0.1% or less	2.074
97		174,000	0.1% or less	37.42
98		168,000	0.1% or less	2.728
99		167,000	0.1% or less	8.332
100		166,000	0.1% or less	0.2242
101		165,000	0.1% or less	4.809
102		160,000	0.1% or less	0.0718
103		156,000	0.1% or less	2.962
104		156,000	0.1% or less	1.754
105		143,000	0.1% or less	7.041
106		137,000	0.1% or less	0.8394
107		133,000	0.1% or less	0.596
108		132,000	0.1% or less	0.4193
109		124,000	0.1% or less	33.16
110		124,000	0.1% or less	2.296
111		124,000	0.1% or less	0.8884
112		123,000	0.1% or less	0.2697
113		121,000	0.1% or less	1.339
114		121,000	0.1% or less	5.949
115		119,000	0.1% or less	2.154
116		117,000	0.1% or less	0.2316
117		116,000	0.1% or less	13.89
118		116,000	0.1% or less	1.263
119		114,000	0.1% or less	0.8618
120		104,000	0.1% or less	1.346
121		102,000	0.1% or less	3.156
122		100,000	0.1% or less	1.325
123		84,000	0.1% or less	2.426
124		83,000	0.1% or less	2.317
125		80,000	0.1% or less	4.533
126		76,000	0.1% or less	1.882
127		74,000	0.1% or less	0.6501
128		67,000	0.1% or less	8.396
129		66,000	0.1% or less	2.151
130		63,000	0.1% or less	0.3386
131		56,000	0.1% or less	0.3513
132		53,000	0.1% or less	0.4141
133		52,000	0.1% or less	77.25
134		50,000	0.1% or less	1.523
135		46,000	0.1% or less	0.3403
136		45,000	0.1% or less	4.36
137		43,000	0.1% or less	0.144
138		42,000	0.1% or less	0.1502
139		41,000	0.1% or less	15.19
140		41,000	0.1% or less	0.9113
141		38,000	0.1% or less	0.3762
142		38,000	0.1% or less	2.912
143		37,000	0.1% or less	0.16
144		32,000	0.1% or less	9.907
145		30,000	0.1% or less	0.3518
146		28,000	0.1% or less	0.5103
147		28,000	0.1% or less	0.0972
148		26,000	0.1% or less	9.311
149		26,000	0.1% or less	0.3609
150		25,000	0.1% or less	70.11
151		25,000	0.1% or less	0.422
152		25,000	0.1% or less	0.4247
153		24,000	0.1% or less	0.3429
154		23,000	0.1% or less	7.667
155		21,000	0.1% or less	1.687
156		21,000	0.1% or less	0.0249
157		20,000	0.1% or less	2.522
158		19,000	0.01% or less	1.198
159		18,000	0.01% or less	22.09
160		18,000	0.01% or less	0.679
161		17,000	0.01% or less	2.005
162		15,000	0.01% or less	0.3408
163		12,000	0.01% or less	35.31
164		11,000	0.01% or less	10.68
165		11,000	0.01% or less	2.723
166		11,000	0.01% or less	2.17
167		10,000	0.01% or less	8.403
168		10,000	0.01% or less	0.448
169		9,000	0.01% or less	5.6
170		9,000	0.01% or less	4.865
171		9,000	0.01% or less	0.3401
172		9,000	0.01% or less	32.01
173		7,000	0.01% or less	4.459
174		6,000	0.01% or less	1.19
175		6,000	0.01% or less	0.334
176		6,000	0.01% or less	0.6336
177		5,000	0.01% or less	7.257
178		5,000	0.01% or less	38.45
179		5,000	0.01% or less	6.199
180		5,000	0.01% or less	1.114
181		4,000	0.01% or less	3.687
182		4,000	0.01% or less	9.369
183		3,000	0.01% or less	15.04
184		3,000	0.01% or less	3.02
-		3,000	0.01% or less	16.04	Non-sovereign territory in association with New Zealand
185		3,000	0.01% or less	0.9119
186		3,000	0.01% or less	0.6276
187		2,000	0.01% or less	3.228
188		1,000	0.01% or less	100%	Due to the unique nature of the Vatican state, there are no natural citizens
189		1,000	0.01% or less	0.9804
190		1,000	0.01% or less	0.4739
191		1,000	0.01% or less	0.1332
192		300	0.01% or less	2.873
-		100	0.01% or less	4.617	Non-sovereign territory in association with New Zealand

did not supply data. (Western Sahara is under military occupation by Morocco. Immigration to the Moroccan-administered region is primarily Moroccan settlers. The area administered by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is sparsely populated.)

References

• World Population Policies 2005 publication, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division

See also

• UN international migration Excel table (for the year 2005)

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