International Migrants as a Share of Population, 2005

Showing 25 of 220 countries · select a heading to sort

International Migrants as a Share of Population, 2005: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.

Country	International migrants (% of population)	Women who are international migrants (% of women)	Men who are international migrants (% of men)	Type of data (B, C, R, I)
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe	100.00000	100.000	100.0000	I
QatarQATWestern Asia	77.90087	48.962	91.3155	C
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia	69.00053	60.653	72.7549	C
MonacoMCOWestern Europe	66.16579	66.373	65.9468	B
AndorraANDSouthern Europe	64.96687	64.329	65.5521	C
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean	63.45236	64.300	62.6036	B R
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	60.53095	50.880	67.2256	C
Northern Mariana IslandsMNPMicronesia	60.20785	67.576	52.4834	B
MacauMACEastern Asia	56.37905	57.448	55.2057	C R
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean	54.67317	53.998	55.3183	B R
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe	54.47522	53.812	55.1567	B
United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean	52.64298	53.267	51.9607	B
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe	52.15931	52.741	51.5611	B
Channel IslandsCHINorthern Europe	46.32851	47.638	44.9561	B
GuamGUMMicronesia	45.47379	45.060	45.8685	B
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean	44.19723	42.731	45.7134	C R
American SamoaASMPolynesia	42.80163	42.323	43.2606	B
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	41.56008	30.514	48.5945	C
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean	40.86159	41.056	40.6533	B R
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	39.38974	42.402	36.0686	B R
AnguillaAIACaribbean	38.18375	39.628	36.6866	B R
JordanJORWestern Asia	36.97381	34.774	39.0082	C R
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia	35.01405	39.561	30.5761	B
ArubaABWCaribbean	34.53253	36.628	32.2537	B R
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe	32.36570	32.182	32.5537	B

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4.32937. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Women who are international migrants (% of women)

  HighestVatican City100.000

  LowestIndonesia0.036

  Middle country: 4.394

• Men who are international migrants (% of men)

  HighestVatican City100.0000

  LowestIndonesia0.0400

  Middle country: 4.4058

• +0 / −0countries joined / left
• 219values changed, of 220 in both
• 112 · 107rose · fell
• 1unchanged

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

• .csv

  For a spreadsheet or code

  220 rows · 17 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

  Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.

  Download international-migrants-share-2005-nations-inquiry.csv
• ↗

  The publisher’s original

  UN DESA Population Division’s own file, on its own site.

  undesa_pd_2024_ims_stock_by_sex_and_destination.xlsx

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition