Map of the world with countries coloured according to their immigrant population as a percentage of total population:

more than 50%

20% to 50%

10% to 20%

4% to 10%

1% to 4%

less than 1%

no data

This is a list of countries by immigrant population, based on United Nations' (UN) World Population Policies 2005 publication [1]^{dead link} [2]^{dead link}, released by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. The total immigrant population was estimated to be 186,579,300. UN member and observer states are ranked.

Rank	State	Number of immigrants	Percentage of total number of immigrants in the world[1]	Immigrants as percentage of state population	Notes
1	United States	38,355,000	20.56	12.81
2	Russia	12,080,000	6.474	8.483
3	Germany	10,144,000	5.437	12.31
4	Ukraine	6,833,000	3.662	14.7
5	France	6,471,000	3.468	10.18
6	Saudi Arabia	6,361,000	3.409	25.25
7	Canada	6,106,000	3.272	18.76
8	India	5,700,000	3.055	0.517
9	United Kingdom	5,408,000	2.898	8.982
10	Spain	4,790,000	2.567	10.79
11	Australia	4,097,000	2.196	19.93
12	People's Republic of China	3,852,000	2.064	0.2944	does not include Hong Kong (SAR) and Macau (SAR)
13	Pakistan	3,254,000	1.744	1.984
14	United Arab Emirates	3,212,000	1.722	71.4
—	Hong Kong (PR China)	2,999,000	1.607	42.59
15	Israel	2,661,000	1.426	37.87
16	Italy	2,519,000	1.35	4.288
17	Kazakhstan	2,502,000	1.341	16.88
18	Côte d'Ivoire	2,371,000	1.271	13.06
19	Jordan	2,225,000	1.193	39.01
20	Japan	2,048,000	1.098	1.599
21	Iran	1,959,000	1.05	2.861
22	Singapore	1,843,000	0.9878	42.6
—	Palestinian territoriescitation needed	1,680,000	0.9004	45.38
23	Ghana	1,669,000	0.8945	7.548
24	Kuwait	1,669,000	0.8945	62.11
25	Switzerland	1,660,000	0.8897	22.89
26	Malaysia	1,639,000	0.8784	6.15
27	Netherlands	1,638,000	0.8779	10.05
28	Argentina	1,500,000	0.8039	3.871
29	Turkey	1,328,000	0.7118	1.814
30	Uzbekistan	1,268,000	0.6796	4.768
31	Austria	1,234,000	0.6614	14.9
32	Belarus	1,191,000	0.6383	12.21
33	Sweden	1,117,000	0.5987	12.3
34	South Africa	1,106,000	0.5928	2.332
35	Thailand	1,050,000	0.5628	1.635
36	Bangladesh	1,032,000	0.5531	0.7277
37	Venezuela	1,010,000	0.5413	3.776
38	Syria	985,000	0.5279	5.173
39	Greece	974,000	0.522	8.662
40	Nigeria	971,000	0.5204	0.7382
41	Nepal	819,000	0.5% or less	3.018
42	Tanzania	792,000	0.5% or less	2.066
43	Burkina Faso	773,000	0.5% or less	5.844
44	Portugal	764,000	0.5% or less	7.204
45	Belgium	719,000	0.5% or less	6.901
46	Poland	703,000	0.5% or less	1.843
47	Croatia	661,000	0.5% or less	14.52
48	Lebanon	657,000	0.5% or less	16.96
49	Mexico	644,000	0.5% or less	0.6017
50	New Zealand	642,000	0.5% or less	15.48
51	Brazil	641,000	0.5% or less	0.3439
52	Sudan	639,000	0.5% or less	1.727
53	Qatar	637,000	0.5% or less	75.9
54	Oman	628,000	0.5% or less	24.46
55	Libya	618,000	0.5% or less	10.56
56	Ireland	585,000	0.5% or less	13.81
57	Ethiopia	555,000	0.5% or less	0.7393
58	South Korea	551,000	0.5% or less	1.152
59	Democratic Republic of the Congo	539,000	0.5% or less	0.9086
60	Uganda	518,000	0.5% or less	1.876
61	Serbia and Montenegro	512,000	0.5% or less	4.726	The UN report was produced before Montenegro and Serbia gained independence from each other on June 3, 2006
62	Zimbabwe	511,000	0.5% or less	3.928
63	Czech Republic	453,000	0.5% or less	4.413
64	Latvia	449,000	0.5% or less	19.46
65	Costa Rica	441,000	0.5% or less	10.19
66	Moldova	440,000	0.5% or less	12.96
67	Chad	437,000	0.5% or less	4.483
68	Mozambique	406,000	0.5% or less	2.051
69	Guinea	406,000	0.5% or less	4.318
70	Denmark	389,000	0.5% or less	7.163
71	Philippines	374,000	0.5% or less	0.4503
72	Sri Lanka	368,000	0.5% or less	1.774
73	Kenya	345,000	0.5% or less	1.007
74	Norway	344,000	0.5% or less	7.37
75	Senegal	326,000	0.5% or less	2.796
76	Hungary	316,000	0.5% or less	3.136
77	Tajikistan	306,000	0.5% or less	4.703
78	Cambodia	304,000	0.5% or less	2.16
79	Bahrain	295,000	0.5% or less	42.22
80	Republic of the Congo	288,000	0.5% or less	7.202
81	Kyrgyzstan	288,000	0.5% or less	5.471
82	Somalia	282,000	0.5% or less	3.427
83	Malawi	279,000	0.5% or less	2.165
84	Zambia	275,000	0.5% or less	2.357
85	Yemen	265,000	0.5% or less	1.263
—	Macau	257,000	0.5% or less	51.09
86	Gabon	245,000	0.5% or less	17.7
87	Algeria	242,000	0.5% or less	0.7366
88	Armenia	235,000	0.5% or less	7.308
89	The Gambia	232,000	0.5% or less	15.29
90	Chile	231,000	0.5% or less	1.406
91	Turkmenistan	224,000	0.5% or less	4.634
92	Estonia	202,000	0.5% or less	15.19
93	Georgia	191,000	0.1% or less	4.269
94	Togo	183,000	0.1% or less	2.978
95	Azerbaijan	182,000	0.1% or less	2.164
96	Benin	175,000	0.1% or less	2.074
97	Luxembourg	174,000	0.1% or less	37.42
98	Paraguay	168,000	0.1% or less	2.728
99	Slovenia	167,000	0.1% or less	8.332
100	Egypt	166,000	0.1% or less	0.2242
101	Lithuania	165,000	0.1% or less	4.809
102	Indonesia	160,000	0.1% or less	0.0718
103	Finland	156,000	0.1% or less	2.962
104	Dominican Republic	156,000	0.1% or less	1.754
105	Namibia	143,000	0.1% or less	7.041
106	Cameroon	137,000	0.1% or less	0.8394
107	Romania	133,000	0.1% or less	0.596
108	Morocco	132,000	0.1% or less	0.4193
109	Brunei	124,000	0.1% or less	33.16
110	Slovakia	124,000	0.1% or less	2.296
111	Niger	124,000	0.1% or less	0.8884
112	Colombia	123,000	0.1% or less	0.2697
113	Rwanda	121,000	0.1% or less	1.339
114	Republic of Macedonia	121,000	0.1% or less	5.949
115	Sierra Leone	119,000	0.1% or less	2.154
116	Myanmar	117,000	0.1% or less	0.2316
117	Cyprus	116,000	0.1% or less	13.89
118	Bolivia	116,000	0.1% or less	1.263
119	Ecuador	114,000	0.1% or less	0.8618
120	Bulgaria	104,000	0.1% or less	1.346
121	Panama	102,000	0.1% or less	3.156
122	Burundi	100,000	0.1% or less	1.325
123	Uruguay	84,000	0.1% or less	2.426
124	Albania	83,000	0.1% or less	2.317
125	Botswana	80,000	0.1% or less	4.533
126	Central African Republic	76,000	0.1% or less	1.882
127	Cuba	74,000	0.1% or less	0.6501
128	Comoros	67,000	0.1% or less	8.396
129	Mauritania	66,000	0.1% or less	2.151
130	Madagascar	63,000	0.1% or less	0.3386
131	Angola	56,000	0.1% or less	0.3513
132	Guatemala	53,000	0.1% or less	0.4141
133	Andorra	52,000	0.1% or less	77.25
134	Liberia	50,000	0.1% or less	1.523
135	Mali	46,000	0.1% or less	0.3403
136	Swaziland	45,000	0.1% or less	4.36
137	Afghanistan	43,000	0.1% or less	0.144
138	Peru	42,000	0.1% or less	0.1502
139	Belize	41,000	0.1% or less	15.19
140	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41,000	0.1% or less	0.9113
141	Tunisia	38,000	0.1% or less	0.3762
142	Trinidad and Tobago	38,000	0.1% or less	2.912
143	North Korea	37,000	0.1% or less	0.16
144	The Bahamas	32,000	0.1% or less	9.907
145	Haiti	30,000	0.1% or less	0.3518
146	Nicaragua	28,000	0.1% or less	0.5103
147	Iraq	28,000	0.1% or less	0.0972
148	Barbados	26,000	0.1% or less	9.311
149	Honduras	26,000	0.1% or less	0.3609
150	Monaco	25,000	0.1% or less	70.11
151	Laos	25,000	0.1% or less	0.422
152	Papua New Guinea	25,000	0.1% or less	0.4247
153	El Salvador	24,000	0.1% or less	0.3429
154	Iceland	23,000	0.1% or less	7.667
155	Mauritius	21,000	0.1% or less	1.687
156	Vietnam	21,000	0.1% or less	0.0249
157	Djibouti	20,000	0.1% or less	2.522
158	Guinea-Bissau	19,000	0.01% or less	1.198
159	Antigua and Barbuda	18,000	0.01% or less	22.09
160	Jamaica	18,000	0.01% or less	0.679
161	Fiji	17,000	0.01% or less	2.005
162	Eritrea	15,000	0.01% or less	0.3408
163	Liechtenstein	12,000	0.01% or less	35.31
164	Grenada	11,000	0.01% or less	10.68
165	Malta	11,000	0.01% or less	2.723
166	Cape Verde	11,000	0.01% or less	2.17
167	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10,000	0.01% or less	8.403
168	Bhutan	10,000	0.01% or less	0.448
169	Saint Lucia	9,000	0.01% or less	5.6
170	Samoa	9,000	0.01% or less	4.865
171	Mongolia	9,000	0.01% or less	0.3401
172	San Marino	9,000	0.01% or less	32.01
173	São Tomé and Príncipe	7,000	0.01% or less	4.459
174	Equatorial Guinea	6,000	0.01% or less	1.19
175	Lesotho	6,000	0.01% or less	0.334
176	East Timor	6,000	0.01% or less	0.6336
177	Dominica	5,000	0.01% or less	7.257
178	Nauru	5,000	0.01% or less	38.45
179	Seychelles	5,000	0.01% or less	6.199
180	Suriname	5,000	0.01% or less	1.114
181	Federated States of Micronesia	4,000	0.01% or less	3.687
182	Saint Kitts and Nevis	4,000	0.01% or less	9.369
183	Palau	3,000	0.01% or less	15.04
184	Kiribati	3,000	0.01% or less	3.02
-	Cook Islands	3,000	0.01% or less	16.04	Non-sovereign territory in association with New Zealand
185	Maldives	3,000	0.01% or less	0.9119
186	Solomon Islands	3,000	0.01% or less	0.6276
187	Marshall Islands	2,000	0.01% or less	3.228
188	Vatican City	1,000	0.01% or less	100%	Due to the unique nature of the Vatican state, there are no natural citizens
189	Tonga	1,000	0.01% or less	0.9804
190	Vanuatu	1,000	0.01% or less	0.4739
191	Guyana	1,000	0.01% or less	0.1332
192	Tuvalu	300	0.01% or less	2.873
-	Niue	100	0.01% or less	4.617	Non-sovereign territory in association with New Zealand

 Western Sahara did not supply data. (Western Sahara is under military occupation by Morocco. Immigration to the Moroccan-administered region is primarily Moroccan settlers. The area administered by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is sparsely populated.)

References

1. ^ This column cannot be accurately sorted - see the talk page if you may be able to assist with this problem.

• World Population Policies 2005 publication, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division

See also

• UN international migration Excel table (for the year 2005)