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Emigrants, 2024

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

Emigrants, 2024 covers 221 countries on 2 measures. India is highest, at 18,533,845; Vatican City is lowest, at 313. The middle country reads 444,451. Against 2020, 221 values changed (191 up, 30 down), the same countries are covered.

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Emigrants · Data for 2024

HighestIndia

18,533,845

LowestVatican City

313

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Emigrants, 2024, 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, 2024: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
IndiaINDSouthern Asia18,533,84535.7810
ChinaCHNEastern Asia11,701,61956.4973
MexicoMEXCentral America11,596,52948.8535
UkraineUKREastern Europe9,769,21658.9228
RussiaRUSEastern Europe9,134,09458.9355
SyriaSYRWestern Asia8,927,52346.8965
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia8,706,94727.4105
VenezuelaVENSouth America8,328,51451.5171
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia7,528,99447.8885
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia6,988,38356.9343
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia6,915,05729.6925
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4,820,00229.5880
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe4,804,94448.3919
RomaniaROUEastern Europe4,583,81951.8121
PolandPOLEastern Europe4,572,61352.5093
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia4,320,46238.2764
GermanyDEUWestern Europe4,297,23352.3983
PalestinePSEWestern Asia4,233,24846.0004
SudanSDNNorthern Africa3,786,60342.7224
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia3,745,14839.0344
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia3,693,53752.3671
ColombiaCOLSouth America3,652,23855.0226
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa3,627,82947.5440
United StatesUSANorthern America3,186,99949.5941
South SudanSSDEastern Africa3,168,83651.8931

02In 2024

At either end

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

Highest

  1. India18,533,845
  2. China11,701,619
  3. Mexico11,596,529
  4. Ukraine9,769,216
  5. Russia9,134,094

Lowest

  1. Vatican City313
  2. Liechtenstein346
  3. Channel Islands351
  4. Marshall Islands400
  5. Gibraltar474

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 444,451. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032020 → 2024

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 221 in both
  • 191 · 30rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Ukraine4,353,031 → 9,769,216+5,416,185
  • Venezuela5,477,198 → 8,328,514+2,851,316
  • India16,532,761 → 18,533,845+2,001,084
  • Afghanistan5,729,887 → 7,528,994+1,799,107
  • Sudan2,378,503 → 3,786,603+1,408,100

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2024.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 221 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (2024). Emigrants, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/emigrants/2024

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07Questions

Emigrants, 2024: questions and answers

Which country has the highest emigrants in Emigrants, 2024?

India, at 18,533,845, of the 221 countries in the file.

What year does Emigrants, 2024 describe?

2024.

How many countries does Emigrants, 2024 cover?

221.

Where can I download Emigrants, 2024?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Emigrants, 2024 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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