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Emigrants, 2024

2024, 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, 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.

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

  • +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

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 2024.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 221 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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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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