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281

Million

INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS IN THE WORLD

34

Million

Refugees (and Asylum seekers) in the world

48.1%

of migrants are women

INDIA, MEXICO,CHINA and RUSSIA

TOP ORIGIN COUNTRIES

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• EMIGRATION
• IMMIGRATION

Emigration

Immigration

Ghana

• Stock of emigrants
  737.2
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  2.8%
• Top destination countries
  Nigeria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Côte d’Ivoire, Italy, Togo, Burkina Faso, Germany, Canada, Spain
• Number of refugees
  22,100

Greece

• Stock of emigrants
  1,000.1
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  9.1%
• Top destination countries
  Germany, the United States, Australia, Turkey, Canada, Albania, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy
• Number of refugees
  108

Greenland

• Stock of emigrants
  17.7
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  31.3%
• Top destination countries
  Denmark, the United States, Guatemala, Norway, Cuba, Iceland, Canada, Australia, Greece, France
• Number of refugees
  Not available

Grenada

• Stock of emigrants
  57.9
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  54.7%
• Top destination countries
  the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Virgin Islands (U.S.), Jamaica, Aruba, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda
• Number of refugees
  324

Guam

• Stock of emigrants
  2.8
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  1.7%
• Top destination countries
  the Philippines, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Vietnam, Australia, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Greece
• Number of refugees
  Not available

Guatemala

• Stock of emigrants
  1,051.8
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  6.7%
• Top destination countries
  the United States, Mexico, Belize, Canada, El Salvador, Spain, Honduras, Costa Rica, France, Italy
• Number of refugees
  7,462

Guinea

• Stock of emigrants
  398.5
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  3.3%
• Top destination countries
  Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Liberia, The Gambia, France, Mali, the United States, Spain, Mauritania
• Number of refugees
  15,213

Guinea-Bissau

• Stock of emigrants
  91.2
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  5.2%
• Top destination countries
  Portugal, Senegal, The Gambia, Spain, Cabo Verde, Nigeria, France, Mauritania, Guinea, Brazil
• Number of refugees
  1,286

Guyana

• Stock of emigrants
  462.6
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  60.8%
• Top destination countries
  the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Suriname, República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, France, Barbados, the Netherlands
• Number of refugees
  700

Haiti

• Stock of emigrants
  1,377.7
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  13.2%
• Top destination countries
  the United States, the Dominican Republic, France, Canada, The Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Curaçao, Switzerland, Bermuda
• Number of refugees
  37,142

Honduras

• Stock of emigrants
  658.8
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  8.4%
• Top destination countries
  the United States, Spain, Nicaragua, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Canada, Belize, Costa Rica, the Cayman Islands
• Number of refugees
  4,147

Hong Kong SAR, China

• Stock of emigrants
  784.1
• Stock of emigrants as pct of population
  10.9%
• Top destination countries
  Canada, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Macao SAR, China, New Zealand, China, Brunei Darussalam, Thailand
• Number of refugees
  20

Ghana

• Stock of immigrants
  439.3
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  1.7%
• Top destination countries
  Togo, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Benin, Niger, Mali, the United Kingdom, Sierra Leone
• Number of refugees
  18,438

Greece

• Stock of immigrants
  988.2
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  9.0%
• Top destination countries
  Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Pakistan, Monaco, Bangladesh, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Poland
• Number of refugees
  10,262

Greenland

• Stock of immigrants
  5.7
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  10.1%
• Top destination countries
  Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Canada, the United States, Finland
• Number of refugees
  Not available

Grenada

• Stock of immigrants
  11.4
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  10.7%
• Top destination countries
  Trinidad and Tobago, the Virgin Islands (U.S.), St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Canada, Barbados, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Dominica
• Number of refugees
  Not available

Guam

• Stock of immigrants
  80.8
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  48.9%
• Top destination countries
  the Philippines, the United States, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Korea, China, Japan, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Vietnam, the Marshall Islands
• Number of refugees
  Not available

Guatemala

• Stock of immigrants
  72.8
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  0.5%
• Top destination countries
  El Salvador, Mexico, the United States, Nicaragua, Honduras, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Costa Rica, Colombia, Belize
• Number of refugees
  160

Guinea

• Stock of immigrants
  378.5
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  3.2%
• Top destination countries
  Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Benin, France, Togo, Niger
• Number of refugees
  8,748

Guinea-Bissau

• Stock of immigrants
  18.0
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  1.0%
• Top destination countries
  Senegal, Guinea, The Gambia, Liberia, Portugal, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Cabo Verde, the United States, France
• Number of refugees
  8,680

Guyana

• Stock of immigrants
  14.8
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  1.9%
• Top destination countries
  Suriname, Brazil, República Bolivariana de Venezuela, the United States, China, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, Canada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica
• Number of refugees
  7

Haiti

• Stock of immigrants
  38.1
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  0.4%
• Top destination countries
  República Bolivariana de Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain, Italy, Cuba, Germany, Colombia, Canada
• Number of refugees
  Not available

Honduras

• Stock of immigrants
  27.5
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  0.4%
• Top destination countries
  El Salvador, Nicaragua, the United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, China, Spain
• Number of refugees
  13

Hong Kong SAR, China

• Stock of immigrants
  2,804.8
• Stock of immigrants as percentage of population
  39.0%
• Top destination countries
  China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Macao SAR, China, Thailand, India, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Canada, Japan
• Number of refugees
  130

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