International Migrants as a Share of Population, 2020

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International Migrants as a Share of Population, 2020: 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	100.000	100.0000	100.0000	I
QatarQATWestern Asia	77.835	62.4141	83.7991	C
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia	76.033	69.0586	79.8913	C
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean	70.340	71.3580	69.2693	B R
MonacoMCOWestern Europe	69.911	70.5410	69.2494	B
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	68.878	59.9786	74.5820	C
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe	66.750	67.8749	65.6078	B
United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean	64.707	66.3505	62.9596	B
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean	59.685	58.3604	61.1776	B R
MacauMACEastern Asia	59.070	59.1157	59.0181	C R
AndorraANDSouthern Europe	58.896	58.5382	59.2419	C
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean	58.009	56.1542	59.8554	B R
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	52.997	37.8200	62.1767	C
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe	51.199	52.0106	50.3732	B
Channel IslandsCHINorthern Europe	50.583	52.2123	48.9162	B
ArubaABWCaribbean	49.900	51.6007	47.9949	B R
GuamGUMMicronesia	49.626	48.8834	50.3432	B
American SamoaASMPolynesia	47.443	47.0131	47.8625	B
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe	47.267	46.7326	47.7939	B
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia	46.068	54.4327	38.2761	B
Northern Mariana IslandsMNPMicronesia	45.958	56.1643	36.7496	B
JordanJORWestern Asia	45.467	41.6477	49.0348	C R
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean	42.575	41.6289	43.5099	C R
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	42.177	26.1172	52.4932	C R
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	39.551	45.1493	32.7539	B R

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4.678. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Women who are international migrants (% of women)

  HighestVatican City100.0000

  LowestCuba0.0303

  Middle country: 4.5882

• Men who are international migrants (% of men)

  HighestVatican City100.0000

  LowestCuba0.0237

  Middle country: 5.2823

• +0 / −0countries joined / left
• 220values changed, of 221 in both
• 121 · 99rose · 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.

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  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.

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