International migrants as a share of the population
People born in another country (or, where birthplace data are missing, foreign citizens), including refugees, as a share of the population. Estimates are published for selected years.
Highest in 2024
76.7%
Qatar
Lowest in 2024
0.0%
Saint Martin (French part)
Euro area, 2024
15.8%
Official aggregate published by the source
Countries ranked for 2024
216
Updated by the source on 8 October 2026
216 countries have a value for 2024, the latest period in the data.
Trend over time
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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | World | United States | China | India |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.7% | 15.2% | 0.1% | 0.3% |
| 2020 | 3.5% | 14.9% | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| 2015 | 3.3% | 14.7% | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| 2010 | 3.2% | 14.1% | 0.1% | 0.5% |
| 2005 | 2.9% | 13.4% | 0.1% | 0.5% |
| 2000 | 2.8% | 12.4% | 0.1% | 0.6% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 216 countries with a value for 2024, the highest is Qatar (76.7%) and the lowest Saint Martin (French part) (0.0%).
- Half of the countries are above 5.6% and half below.
- The figure for the world in 2024 was 3.7%.
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Source and dates
All countries in 2024 Every value is for 2024, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Qatar 76.7%
- 2 United Arab Emirates 74.0%
- 3 Monaco 70.2%
- 4 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 69.5%
- 5 Liechtenstein 69.4%
- 6 Aruba 68.0%
- 7 Kuwait 67.3%
- 8 US Virgin Islands 66.9%
- 9 British Virgin Islands 62.1%
- 10 Turks and Caicos Islands 61.1%
- 11 Macao SAR, China 59.3%
- 12 Andorra 59.1%
- 13 Bahrain 52.3%
- 14 Isle of Man 51.9%
- 15 Luxembourg 51.2%
- 16 Channel Islands 50.9%
- 17 American Samoa 50.6%
- 18 Guam 50.2%
- 19 Northern Mariana Islands 49.7%
- 20 Singapore 48.7%
- 21 Jordan 45.7%
- 22 Oman 43.2%
- 23 Curaçao 43.1%
- 24 Cayman Islands 42.9%
- 25 Hong Kong SAR, China 41.3%
- 26 Saudi Arabia 40.3%
- 27 Malta 37.0%
- 28 Antigua and Barbuda 32.5%
- 29 Bermuda 31.2%
- 30 Switzerland 31.1%
- 31 Australia 30.4%
- 32 Palau 29.5%
- 33 Gibraltar 28.7%
- 34 New Zealand 28.2%
- 35 New Caledonia 26.2%
- 36 Brunei 25.9%
- 37 Austria 25.5%
- 38 Iceland 25.1%
- 39 Lebanon 24.5%
- 40 Ireland 23.1%
- 41 Israel 22.3%
- 42 Canada 22.2%
- 43 Sweden 21.4%
- 44 Naoero 21.3%
- 45 Belgium 20.0%
- 46 Germany 19.8%
- 47 Spain 18.5%
- 48 Norway 18.2%
- 49 Gabon 17.7%
- 50 San Marino 17.4%
- 51 United Kingdom 17.1%
- 52 Saint Kitts and Nevis 17.0%
- 53 Bahamas 16.8%
- 54 Belize 16.5%
- 55 Netherlands 16.2%
- 56 United States 15.2%
- 57 Cyprus 14.9%
- 58 Estonia 14.9%
- 59 Slovenia 14.9%
- 60 Faroe Islands 14.6%
- 61 Montenegro 14.4%
- 62 Denmark 14.2%
- 63 Greece 14.2%
- 64 Maldives 14.2%
- 65 France 13.8%
- 66 Croatia 13.6%
- 67 Ukraine 13.4%
- 68 Equatorial Guinea 13.2%
- 69 Dominica 12.7%
- 70 Barbados 12.5%
- 71 Costa Rica 12.2%
- 72 Libya 12.2%
- 73 Latvia 11.8%
- 74 Belarus 11.6%
- 75 Italy 11.0%
- 76 Djibouti 10.8%
- 77 Portugal 10.8%
- 78 French Polynesia 10.7%
- 79 Malaysia 10.7%
- 80 Panama 10.6%
- 81 Serbia 10.6%
- 82 Greenland 10.4%
- 83 Seychelles 10.2%
- 84 Kazakhstan 10.1%
- 85 Czechia 9.5%
- 86 Armenia 9.2%
- 87 Finland 9.2%
- 88 Côte d'Ivoire 9.0%
- 89 Marshall Islands 8.8%
- 90 Gambia 8.6%
- 91 North Macedonia 8.3%
- 92 Suriname 8.2%
- 93 Türkiye 8.1%
- 94 Chile 7.8%
- 95 South Sudan 7.7%
- 96 Trinidad and Tobago 7.5%
- 97 Hungary 7.1%
- 98 Bhutan 7.0%
- 99 Puerto Rico (US) 6.9%
- 100 Dominican Republic 6.5%
- 101 Guyana 6.5%
- 102 Chad 6.3%
- 103 Grenada 6.3%
- 104 Moldova 6.2%
- 105 Lithuania 6.1%
- 106 Republic of the Congo 6.1%
- 107 Slovakia 5.9%
- 108 Colombia 5.8%
- 109 Peru 5.4%
- 110 Russia 5.3%
- 111 West Bank and Gaza 5.0%
- 112 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4.8%
- 113 Sudan 4.8%
- 114 Uruguay 4.7%
- 115 Botswana 4.6%
- 116 Poland 4.5%
- 117 Saint Lucia 4.5%
- 118 Bulgaria 4.4%
- 119 Thailand 4.4%
- 120 Venezuela 4.4%
- 121 Argentina 4.3%
- 122 Iran 4.2%
- 123 Ecuador 4.1%
- 124 South Africa 4.1%
- 125 Uganda 4.1%
- 126 Mauritania 3.8%
- 127 Namibia 3.8%
- 128 Rwanda 3.6%
- 129 Syria 3.6%
- 130 South Korea 3.5%
- 131 Romania 3.4%
- 132 Tonga 3.4%
- 133 Uzbekistan 3.2%
- 134 Burkina Faso 3.1%
- 135 Cabo Verde 3.1%
- 136 Togo 3.0%
- 137 Benin 2.9%
- 138 Burundi 2.8%
- 139 Japan 2.8%
- 140 Eswatini 2.7%
- 141 Kyrgyzstan 2.7%
- 142 Micronesia 2.6%
- 143 Paraguay 2.6%
- 144 Tajikistan 2.6%
- 145 Turkmenistan 2.6%
- 146 Tuvalu 2.6%
- 147 Zimbabwe 2.6%
- 148 Kiribati 2.5%
- 149 Mauritius 2.3%
- 150 Cameroon 2.2%
- 151 Mali 2.2%
- 152 Azerbaijan 2.1%
- 153 Georgia 2.1%
- 154 Angola 1.8%
- 155 Central African Republic 1.8%
- 156 Kenya 1.8%
- 157 Samoa 1.8%
- 158 Albania 1.7%
- 159 Bangladesh 1.7%
- 160 Niger 1.7%
- 161 Pakistan 1.7%
- 162 Nepal 1.6%
- 163 Bolivia 1.5%
- 164 Fiji 1.5%
- 165 Ghana 1.5%
- 166 Senegal 1.5%
- 167 Comoros 1.4%
- 168 Liberia 1.3%
- 169 Mexico 1.3%
- 170 Zambia 1.2%
- 171 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.1%
- 172 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1.0%
- 173 Egypt 1.0%
- 174 Mozambique 1.0%
- 175 Vanuatu 1.0%
- 176 Yemen 1.0%
- 177 Ethiopia 0.9%
- 178 Malawi 0.9%
- 179 Guinea 0.8%
- 180 Iraq 0.8%
- 181 Jamaica 0.8%
- 182 São Tomé and Príncipe 0.8%
- 183 Brazil 0.7%
- 184 El Salvador 0.7%
- 185 Guinea-Bissau 0.7%
- 186 Laos 0.7%
- 187 Tanzania 0.7%
- 188 Algeria 0.6%
- 189 Lesotho 0.6%
- 190 Mongolia 0.6%
- 191 Nicaragua 0.6%
- 192 Nigeria 0.6%
- 193 Sierra Leone 0.6%
- 194 Timor-Leste 0.6%
- 195 Cambodia 0.5%
- 196 Guatemala 0.5%
- 197 Tunisia 0.5%
- 198 Eritrea 0.4%
- 199 Honduras 0.4%
- 200 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 0.4%
- 201 India 0.3%
- 202 Morocco 0.3%
- 203 Papua New Guinea 0.3%
- 204 Solomon Islands 0.3%
- 205 Viet Nam 0.3%
- 206 Afghanistan 0.2%
- 207 Haiti 0.2%
- 208 Indonesia 0.2%
- 209 North Korea 0.2%
- 210 Sri Lanka 0.2%
- 211 China 0.1%
- 212 Madagascar 0.1%
- 213 Myanmar 0.1%
- 214 Philippines 0.1%
- 215 Cuba 0.0%
- 216 Saint Martin (French part) 0.0%
- East Asia and Pacific 1.4%
- Euro area 15.8%
- Europe and Central Asia 11.4%
- European Union 14.1%
- Latin America and Caribbean 2.6%
- Middle East and North Africa 6.5%
- North America 16.0%
- OECD members 12.1%
- South Asia 0.5%
- Sub-Saharan Africa 2.0%
- World 3.7%
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