https://www.humantruth.info/asia_migration.html
By Vexen Crabtree 2017
#asia #china #emigration #immigration #india #migration #population
| Percent of Population | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Immigrants (2017) %1 | Emigrants (2010) %2 | Population (2018) Population3 | |
| 1 | UAE | 88.4% | 1.2% | 9.6m |
| 2 | Kuwait | 75.5% | 8.5% | 4.1m |
| 3 | Qatar | 65.2% | 0.7% | 2.8m |
| 4 | Bahrain | 48.4% | 3.7% | 1.6m |
| 5 | Singapore | 46.0% | 6.1% | 5.8m |
| 6 | Oman | 44.7% | 0.5% | 4.8m |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 39.1% | 10.2% | 7.4m |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 37.0% | 0.7% | 33.7m |
| 9 | Jordan | 33.3% | 11.3% | 10.0m |
| 10 | Lebanon | 31.9% | 15.6% | 6.9m |
| 11 | Brunei | 25.3% | 6.0% | 0.4m |
| 12 | Israel | 23.6% | 14.0% | 8.4m |
| 13 | Kazakhstan | 20.0% | 23.6% | 18.3m |
| 14 | Cyprus | 16.0% | 17.0% | 1.2m |
| 15 | Maldives | 15.4% | 0.6% | 0.5m |
| 16 | Malaysia | 8.5% | 5.3% | 31.5m |
| 17 | Russia | 8.1% | 7.9% | 145.7m |
| 18 | Armenia | 6.5% | 28.2% | 3.0m |
| 19 | Bhutan | 6.5% | 6.3% | 0.8m |
| 20 | Turkey | 6.0% | 5.6% | 82.3m |
| 21 | Syria | 5.5% | 4.2% | 16.9m |
| 22 | Thailand | 5.2% | 1.2% | 69.4m |
| 23 | Palestine | 5.2% | 68.4% | 4.9m |
| 24 | Uzbekistan | 3.6% | 7.0% | 32.5m |
| 25 | Turkmenistan | 3.4% | 5.0% | 5.9m |
| 26 | Iran | 3.3% | 1.7% | 81.8m |
| 27 | Kyrgyzstan | 3.3% | 11.2% | 6.3m |
| 28 | Tajikistan | 3.1% | 11.2% | 9.1m |
| 29 | Azerbaijan | 2.6% | 16.0% | 9.9m |
| 30 | S. Korea | 2.3% | 4.3% | 51.2m |
| 31 | Georgia | 2.0% | 25.1% | 4.0m |
| 32 | Japan | 1.8% | 0.6% | 127.2m |
| 33 | Pakistan | 1.7% | 2.5% | 212.2m |
| 34 | Nepal | 1.7% | 3.3% | 28.1m |
| 35 | Yemen | 1.4% | 4.7% | 28.5m |
| 36 | Iraq | 1.0% | 4.9% | 38.4m |
| 37 | Timor-Leste (E. Timor) | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1.3m |
| 38 | Bangladesh | 0.9% | 3.3% | 161.4m |
| 39 | Laos | 0.7% | 5.7% | 7.1m |
| 40 | Mongolia | 0.6% | 1.2% | 3.2m |
| 41 | Cambodia | 0.5% | 2.3% | 16.2m |
| 42 | India | 0.4% | 0.9% | 1.4b |
| 43 | Afghanistan | 0.4% | 8.1% | 37.2m |
| 44 | Philippines | 0.2% | 4.6% | 106.7m |
| 45 | N. Korea | 0.2% | 1.3% | 25.5m |
| 46 | Sri Lanka | 0.2% | 9.1% | 21.2m |
| 47 | Myanmar (Burma) | 0.1% | 1.0% | 53.7m |
| 48 | Indonesia | 0.1% | 1.1% | 267.7m |
| 49 | Vietnam | 0.1% | 2.5% | 95.5m |
| 50 | China | 0.1% | 0.6% | 1.4b |
| Asia Avg | 14.0% | 7.7% | 93.6m | |
| q=50. | ||||
Some of the smaller countries of Asia have very high immigration rates. The countries in Asia with the highest percent of immigrants in their populations are UAE (88.4%), Kuwait (75.5%) and Qatar (65.2%), although the average for Asia is 14%. Several other countries approach an immigration rate of 50%. And emigration: Palestine (68.4%), Armenia (28.2%) and Georgia (25.1%), whilst the continental average of emigrants for a country is 8%. The two massive countries of China and India (both with over a billion inhabitants) see less than half a percent of their people come or go.