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World’s Largest Diaspora – Indians
September 19 , 2019
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- At 17.5 million, India’s diaspora continues to be the largest diaspora in the world.
- It constitutes 6.4% of the total world migrant population of 272 million in mid-2019.
- UAE (3.4 million), US (2.6 million) and Saudi Arabia (2.4 million) were the top three migration destinations for Indians.
- More than 50,000 Indians have acquired US Citizenship in the last year.
- The report “International Migrant Stock 2019” has been released by the Population Division of UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
- Migrants from Mexico constituted the second largest diaspora (11.8 million), followed by China (10.7 million), Russia (10.5 million), Syria (8.2 million), Bangladesh (7.8 million), Pakistan (6.3 million), Ukraine (5.9 million), the Philippines (5.4 million) and Afghanistan (5.1 million).
- In 2019, regionally, Europe hosted the largest number of international migrants (82 million), followed by Northern America (59 million) and Northern Africa and Western Asia (49 million).
- At the Country level, United States of America is hosting the largest number of international migrants (51 million), equal to about 19 per cent of the world's total.
- Germany and Saudi Arabia host the second and third largest numbers of migrants (13 million each), followed by Russia (12 million), the United Kingdom (10 million), the United Arab Emirates (9 million), France, Canada and Australia (around 8 million each) and Italy (6 million).
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