PICTURES OF THIS WEEK. With 17.9 million of its citizens living abroad, India has the largest emigrant population.
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Saccording to the United Nations, number of international migrants defined as people living in a country other than their country of birth reaching 281 million by 2020, or 3.6% of the world’s population. They were 84 million in 1970, or 2.3% of the world’s population, and 173 million in 2000, or 2.8% of the world’s population.
Europe was the first destination for international migrants (86.7 million, or 30.9% of the international migrant population), followed by Asia (85.6 million, or 30.5%), North America (58.7 million, or 20 .9%) and Africa (25.4 million). , or 9%).
2.5 million French expats
Lin the United States is that country in this world where most of immigrant international (50.6 million in 2020, compared to 12 million in 1970), in front of‘German (15.8 million) and Saudi Arabia (13,5 million). In addition, 9.4 million foreign-born people live in the UK in 2020, 8.5 million in France, 6.8 million in Spain and 6.4 million in Italy.
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With 17.9 million of its citizens living abroad, India has the largest emigrant population in the world in 2020, followed by Mexico (11.2 million), Russian Federation (10.8 million), China (10.5 million) , Syria (8.5 million), Bangladesh (7.4 million), Pakistan (6.3 million), Ukraine (6.1 million) and the Philippines (6 million).
Amount French living abroad estimated 1er January 2022 on 2.5 million, which is about twice as much as there is 40 years. Betweenes 1,614,772 French emigrants registered on the consular register174,820 live in Switzerland, 136,533 in the United States, 136,046 in the UK, 105,684 in Belgium, 94,940 in Canada, 91,879 in Germany, 78,721 in Spain, 51,008 in Morocco and 33,368 in Italy.
