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Emigrants, 2015

2015, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

This is the number of people from each country who live in another — international migrants counted by where they come from rather than where they live. It is the mirror of the migrants a country hosts, and covers everyone abroad, from students and workers to refugees.

Emigrants, 2015 covers 221 countries on 2 measures. India is highest, at 15,277,263; Vatican City is lowest, at 128. The middle country reads 411,144. Against 2010, 220 values changed (171 up, 49 down), the same countries are covered.

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Emigrants · Data for 2015

HighestIndia

15,277,263

LowestVatican City

128

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Emigrants, 2015, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 221 countries · select a heading to sort

Emigrants, 2015: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
IndiaINDSouthern Asia15,277,26334.686
MexicoMEXCentral America12,184,22647.953
ChinaCHNEastern Asia10,357,96255.613
RussiaRUSEastern Europe8,528,58258.569
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia7,883,87327.596
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia6,190,81529.409
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia6,000,34856.937
SyriaSYRWestern Asia5,981,46045.586
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia5,181,00246.882
UkraineUKREastern Europe4,644,01156.729
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe4,583,48548.652
GermanyDEUWestern Europe4,207,46053.555
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4,193,17728.415
PolandPOLEastern Europe4,154,66654.279
PalestinePSEWestern Asia3,797,79346.029
RomaniaROUEastern Europe3,535,27353.929
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3,348,87453.437
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia3,269,32156.886
United StatesUSANorthern America2,968,43449.075
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa2,907,73347.087
ItalyITASouthern Europe2,756,72746.356
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2,727,57547.548
ColombiaCOLSouth America2,720,32154.746
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia2,719,79651.632
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia2,517,41144.737

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. India15,277,263
  2. Mexico12,184,226
  3. China10,357,962
  4. Russia8,528,582
  5. Bangladesh7,883,873

Lowest

  1. Vatican City128
  2. Liechtenstein293
  3. Channel Islands297
  4. Marshall Islands379
  5. Cayman Islands381

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 411,144. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032010 → 2015

Since 2010

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 220values changed, of 221 in both
  • 171 · 49rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

  • Syria1,265,925 → 5,981,460+4,715,535
  • India12,350,515 → 15,277,263+2,926,748
  • Bangladesh6,221,642 → 7,883,873+1,662,231
  • China8,773,150 → 10,357,962+1,584,812
  • Pakistan4,684,523 → 6,190,815+1,506,292

Fell most

  • Iraq2,697,913 → 1,652,951−1,044,962
  • Ukraine5,179,224 → 4,644,011−535,213
  • Kazakhstan3,753,542 → 3,348,874−404,668
  • Belarus1,310,899 → 1,079,713−231,186
  • Azerbaijan1,050,055 → 860,748−189,307

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2015.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 221 countries has every column.

05The files

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UN DESA Population Division (2015). Emigrants, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/emigrants/2015

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