International Migrants as a Share of Population, 2010

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International Migrants as a Share of Population, 2010: 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	100.0000	100.0000	100.0000	I
QatarQATWestern Asia	82.4348	63.8924	88.4651	C
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia	78.4911	73.5787	80.9437	C
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean	77.5374	76.8273	78.3226	B R
AndorraANDSouthern Europe	64.4971	63.3418	65.5811	C
MonacoMCOWestern Europe	63.7216	63.6155	63.8331	B
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	63.5946	57.8305	67.9548	C
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe	62.0628	63.1501	60.9547	B
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean	61.7019	62.2898	61.0870	B R
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean	57.8903	56.6974	59.0493	B R
MacauMACEastern Asia	56.5925	58.3525	54.6548	C R
United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean	53.3190	54.0012	52.5744	B
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	52.9990	38.5885	61.7721	C
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe	51.8009	52.2993	51.2943	B
JordanJORWestern Asia	51.0257	47.5860	54.2347	C R
Channel IslandsCHINorthern Europe	48.9097	50.4386	47.3345	B
GuamGUMMicronesia	45.2889	44.9392	45.6217	B
Northern Mariana IslandsMNPMicronesia	44.6803	53.1198	36.7205	B
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean	44.4777	42.8608	46.1412	C R
American SamoaASMPolynesia	42.6505	42.1663	43.1178	B
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia	42.5516	49.7868	35.8841	B
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	39.1453	42.9610	34.7542	B R
AnguillaAIACaribbean	38.2390	39.5701	36.8590	B R
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	35.6836	26.5905	41.4715	C R
ArubaABWCaribbean	34.2889	36.3324	32.0502	B R

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4.2985. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Women who are international migrants (% of women)

  HighestVatican City100.0000

  LowestIndonesia0.0429

  Middle country: 4.2330

• Men who are international migrants (% of men)

  HighestVatican City100.0000

  LowestIndonesia0.0491

  Middle country: 4.4332

• +1 / −0countries joined / left
• 219values changed, of 220 in both
• 119 · 100rose · fell
• 1unchanged

+ Sudan

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.

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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.

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