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.

International Migrant Stock by Country of Birth and Citizenship.

Country Name	Country Code	2000	2010	2015
Afghanistan	AFG	75,917	1,02,246	3,82,365
Albania	ALB	76,695	52,784	57,616
Algeria	DZA	2,50,110	2,44,964	2,42,391
American Samoa	ASM	24,912	23,555	23,216
Andorra	AND	42,146	52,053	42,082
Angola	AGO	46,108	76,549	1,06,845
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	23,071	26,412	28,083
Arab World	ARB	1,62,16,741	2,85,55,399	3,47,64,700
Argentina	ARG	15,40,219	18,05,957	20,86,302
Armenia	ARM	6,57,900	2,21,560	1,91,199
Aruba	ABW	30,104	34,327	36,114
Australia	AUS	43,86,250	58,82,980	67,63,663
Austria	AUT	9,96,547	12,75,992	14,92,374
Azerbaijan	AZE	3,27,540	2,76,901	2,64,241
Bahamas, The	BHS	36,454	54,736	59,306
Bahrain	BHR	2,39,361	6,57,856	7,04,137
Bangladesh	BGD	9,87,853	13,45,546	14,22,805
Barbados	BRB	28,424	32,825	34,475
Belarus	BLR	11,23,586	10,90,378	10,82,905
Belgium	BEL	8,53,369	10,52,844	13,87,940
Belize	BLZ	36,488	46,360	53,860
Benin	BEN	1,33,730	2,09,267	2,45,399
Bermuda	BMU	17,668	18,884	19,126
Bhutan	BTN	32,137	48,420	51,106
Bolivia	BOL	92,658	1,22,846	1,42,989
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	82,952	38,792	34,803
Botswana	BWA	57,064	1,20,912	1,60,644
Brazil	BRA	6,84,596	5,92,568	7,13,568
British Virgin Islands	VGB	12,058	15,558	17,308
Brunei Darussalam	BRN	96,296	1,00,587	1,02,733
Bulgaria	BGR	43,360	76,287	1,02,113
Burkina Faso	BFA	5,20,039	6,73,904	7,04,676
Burundi	BDI	1,25,628	2,35,259	2,86,810
Cabo Verde	CPV	11,027	14,373	14,924
Cambodia	KHM	1,46,085	81,977	73,963
Cameroon	CMR	2,28,383	2,89,091	3,81,984
Canada	CAN	55,11,914	70,11,226	78,35,502
Cayman Islands	CYM	19,253	24,057	23,726
Chad	TCD	1,04,825	4,16,924	5,16,968
Channel Islands	CHI	64,301	77,581	82,307
Chile	CHL	1,77,332	3,69,436	4,69,436
China	CHN	5,08,034	8,49,861	9,78,046
Colombia	COL	1,09,609	1,24,271	1,33,134
Comoros	COM	13,799	12,618	12,555
Congo, Dem. Rep.	COD	7,44,387	5,88,950	5,45,694
Congo, Rep.	COG	3,05,002	4,19,649	3,92,996
Costa Rica	CRI	3,10,946	4,05,404	4,21,697
Cote d'Ivoire	CIV	19,94,135	20,95,185	21,75,399
Croatia	HRV	5,85,298	5,73,248	5,76,883
Cuba	CUB	17,818	14,818	13,336
Curacao	CUW		34,627	37,611
Cyprus	CYP	80,076	1,87,923	1,96,167
Czech Republic	CZE	2,20,789	3,97,785	4,05,093
Denmark	DNK	3,71,026	5,09,740	5,72,520
Djibouti	DJI	1,00,507	1,01,575	1,12,351
Dominica	DMA	3,723	5,765	6,720
Dominican Republic	DOM	3,55,611	3,93,720	4,15,564
Ecuador	ECU	1,51,523	3,25,366	3,87,513
Egypt, Arab Rep.	EGY	1,73,452	2,95,714	4,91,643
El Salvador	SLV	31,713	40,324	42,045
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	4,517	8,658	10,825
Eritrea	ERI	12,952	15,676	15,941
Estonia	EST	2,49,512	2,17,890	2,02,348
Ethiopia	ETH	6,11,384	5,67,720	10,72,949
Euro area	EMU	2,61,29,209	3,95,19,428	4,09,35,248
European Union	EUU	3,43,32,802	5,13,01,015	5,40,70,726
Faroe Islands	FRO	3,593	5,096	5,517
Fiji	FJI	12,719	13,351	13,751
Finland	FIN	1,36,203	2,48,135	3,15,881
France	FRA	62,78,718	71,96,481	77,84,418
French Polynesia	PYF	30,329	31,640	30,058
Gabon	GAB	1,95,571	2,43,992	2,68,384
Gambia, The	GMB	1,82,514	1,85,763	1,92,540
Georgia	GEO	2,18,600	1,82,202	1,68,802
Germany	DEU	89,92,631	1,16,05,690	1,20,05,690
Ghana	GHA	1,91,601	3,37,017	3,99,471
Gibraltar	GIB	8,054	10,369	11,065
Greece	GRC	11,11,665	12,69,749	12,42,514
Greenland	GRL	6,755	6,226	6,009
Grenada	GRD	6,825	6,980	7,057
Guam	GUM	74,070	75,416	76,089
Guatemala	GTM	48,119	66,384	76,352
Guinea	GIN	5,60,075	2,05,111	2,28,413
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	20,450	21,061	22,333
Guyana	GUY	8,610	13,126	15,384
Haiti	HTI	25,832	35,104	39,529
Honduras	HND	28,461	27,288	28,070
Hong Kong SAR, China	HKG	26,69,122	27,79,950	28,38,665
Hungary	HUN	2,96,957	4,36,616	4,49,632
Iceland	ISL	15,892	35,091	37,522
India	IND	64,11,272	54,36,012	52,40,960
Indonesia	IDN	2,92,307	3,05,416	3,28,846
Iran, Islamic Rep.	IRN	28,03,805	27,61,561	27,26,420
Iraq	IRQ	2,10,525	1,17,389	3,53,881
Ireland	IRL	3,50,552	7,30,542	7,46,260
Isle of Man	IMN	39,002	43,447	45,221
Israel	ISR	18,51,309	19,50,615	20,11,727
Italy	ITA	21,21,688	57,87,893	57,88,875
Jamaica	JAM	24,952	23,677	23,167
Japan	JPN	16,86,567	21,34,151	20,43,877
Jordan	JOR	19,27,845	27,22,983	31,12,026
Kazakhstan	KAZ	28,71,300	33,34,623	35,46,778
Kenya	KEN	6,99,139	9,26,959	10,84,357
Kiribati	KIR	2,283	2,868	3,153
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	PRK	36,183	44,010	48,458
Korea, Rep.	KOR	2,44,178	9,19,275	13,27,324
Kosovo	KSV
Kuwait	KWT	11,27,640	18,71,537	28,66,136
Kyrgyz Republic	KGZ	3,89,558	2,31,511	2,04,382
Lao PDR	LAO	21,948	21,185	22,244
Latvia	LVA	4,30,178	3,13,786	2,63,126
Lebanon	LBN	6,92,913	8,20,655	19,97,776
Lesotho	LSO	6,167	6,414	6,572
Liberia	LBR	1,51,868	99,129	1,13,779
Libya	LBY	5,67,436	6,83,998	7,71,146
Liechtenstein	LIE	15,483	22,342	23,493
Lithuania	LTU	2,14,311	1,60,772	1,36,036
Luxembourg	LUX	1,39,750	1,63,142	2,49,325
Macao SAR, China	MAC	2,40,791	3,18,506	3,42,703
Macedonia, FYR	MKD	1,25,665	1,29,701	1,30,730
Madagascar	MDG	23,541	28,905	32,075
Malawi	MWI	2,32,620	2,17,722	2,15,158
Malaysia	MYS	12,77,223	24,06,011	25,14,243
Maldives	MDV	27,092	73,604	94,086
Mali	MLI	1,89,475	3,36,607	3,63,145
Malta	MLT	21,521	33,084	41,442
Marshall Islands	MHL	1,891	3,089	3,284
Mauritania	MRT	57,366	84,679	1,38,162
Mauritius	MUS	15,543	24,836	28,585
Mexico	MEX	5,38,051	9,69,538	11,93,155
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	FSM	3,116	2,805	2,756
Moldova	MDA	2,47,828	1,57,668	1,42,904
Monaco	MCO	21,787	21,132	21,042
Mongolia	MNG	8,206	16,061	17,620
Montenegro	MNE		78,507	82,541
Morocco	MAR	53,034	70,909	88,511
Mozambique	MOZ	1,95,702	2,14,612	2,22,928
Myanmar	MMR	98,011	76,414	73,308
Namibia	NAM	1,34,403	1,02,405	93,888
Nauru	NRU	2,394	2,112	3,178
Nepal	NPL	7,17,900	5,78,657	5,18,278
Netherlands	NLD	15,56,337	18,32,510	19,79,486
New Caledonia	NCL	49,651	61,158	64,290
New Zealand	NZL	6,78,813	9,47,443	10,39,736
Nicaragua	NIC	30,389	37,333	40,262
Niger	NER	1,22,260	1,26,464	1,89,255
Nigeria	NGA	4,87,882	9,20,118	11,99,115
Northern Mariana Islands	MNP	40,122	24,168	21,648
Norway	NOR	2,92,440	5,26,799	7,41,813
Oman	OMN	6,23,608	8,16,221	18,44,978
Pakistan	PAK	41,81,912	39,41,586	36,28,956
Palau	PLW	6,310	5,787	5,664
Panama	PAN	83,410	1,57,309	1,84,710
Papua New Guinea	PNG	25,101	25,424	25,782
Paraguay	PRY	1,76,608	1,60,299	1,56,462
Peru	PER	66,293	84,066	90,881
Philippines	PHL	3,18,095	2,08,599	2,11,862
Poland	POL	8,25,251	6,42,417	6,19,403
Portugal	PRT	6,51,472	7,62,825	8,37,257
Puerto Rico	PRI	3,55,038	3,04,969	2,74,972
Qatar	QAT	3,59,697	14,56,413	16,87,640
Romania	ROU	1,26,949	1,55,982	2,26,943
Russian Federation	RUS	1,19,00,297	1,11,94,710	1,16,43,276
Rwanda	RWA	3,47,076	4,36,787	4,41,525
Samoa	WSM	5,998	5,122	4,929
San Marino	SMR	4,045	4,399	4,717
Sao Tome and Principe	STP	4,365	2,700	2,394
Saudi Arabia	SAU	52,63,387	84,29,956	1,01,85,945
Senegal	SEN	2,31,901	2,56,092	2,63,242
Serbia	SRB	8,56,763	8,26,066	8,07,441
Seychelles	SYC	6,574	11,420	12,791
Sierra Leone	SLE	98,241	97,452	91,213
Singapore	SGP	13,51,691	21,64,794	25,43,638
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	SXM		26,200	27,295
Slovak Republic	SVK	1,16,376	1,46,319	1,77,190
Slovenia	SVN	1,71,018	2,53,786	2,35,966
Small states	SST	22,14,658	41,59,671	45,83,559
Solomon Islands	SLB	3,981	2,760	2,585
Somalia	SOM	20,087	23,995	25,291
South Africa	ZAF	10,01,825	19,43,099	31,42,511
South Sudan	SSD		2,57,905	8,24,122
Spain	ESP	16,57,285	62,80,065	58,52,953
Sri Lanka	LKA	40,132	38,959	38,706
St. Kitts and Nevis	KNA	5,871	7,245	7,443
St. Lucia	LCA	9,868	12,100	12,771
St. Martin (French part)	MAF
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	VCT	4,307	4,485	4,577
Sub-Saharan Africa	SSF	1,34,69,475	1,51,98,834	1,86,76,830
Sudan	SDN	8,01,883	5,78,363	5,03,477
Suriname	SUR	27,506	39,713	46,836
Eswatini(Swaziland)	SWZ	22,855	30,476	31,579
Sweden	SWE	10,03,798	13,84,929	16,39,771
Switzerland	CHE	15,70,756	20,75,182	24,38,702
Syrian Arab Republic	SYR	8,32,273	16,61,922	8,75,189
Tajikistan	TJK	2,99,266	2,78,152	2,75,059
Tanzania	TZA	9,28,180	3,08,600	2,61,222
Thailand	THA	12,57,821	32,24,131	39,13,258
Timor-Leste	TLS	10,602	10,983	10,834
Togo	TGO	1,37,891	2,55,262	2,76,844
Tonga	TON	3,684	5,022	5,731
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	41,753	48,226	49,883
Tunisia	TUN	36,446	43,172	56,701
Turkey	TUR	12,80,963	13,67,034	29,64,916
Turkmenistan	TKM	2,18,498	1,97,979	1,96,386
Turks and Caicos Islands	TCA	9,015	10,875	11,688
Tuvalu	TUV	217	154	141
Uganda	UGA	6,34,703	5,29,160	7,49,471
Ukraine	UKR	55,27,087	48,18,767	48,34,898
United Arab Emirates	ARE	24,46,675	73,16,611	80,95,126
United Kingdom	GBR	47,30,165	76,04,583	85,43,120
United States	USA	3,48,14,053	4,41,83,643	4,66,27,102
Uruguay	URY	88,871	76,263	71,799
Uzbekistan	UZB	14,05,250	12,20,149	11,70,899
Vanuatu	VUT	2,626	2,991	3,187
Venezuela, RB	VEN	10,13,663	13,31,488	14,04,448
Vietnam	VNM	56,754	61,756	72,793
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	VIR	56,611	56,684	56,721
West Bank and Gaza	PSE	2,75,202	2,58,032	2,55,507
World	WLD	17,22,78,883	22,12,33,994	24,31,92,681
Yemen, Rep.	YEM	1,43,495	2,85,837	3,44,131
Zambia	ZMB	3,21,167	1,49,637	1,27,915
Zimbabwe	ZWE	4,10,041	3,97,891	3,98,866

Last Updated on : November 16, 2016