https://www.humantruth.info/middle_east_migration.html
By Vexen Crabtree 2017
#emigration #immigration #migration #population #the_middle_east
| 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 | Oman | 44.7% | 0.5% | 4.8m |
| 6 | Saudi Arabia | 37.0% | 0.7% | 33.7m |
| 7 | Jordan | 33.3% | 11.3% | 10.0m |
| 8 | Lebanon | 31.9% | 15.6% | 6.9m |
| 9 | Israel | 23.6% | 14.0% | 8.4m |
| 10 | Cyprus | 16.0% | 17.0% | 1.2m |
| 11 | Turkey | 6.0% | 5.6% | 82.3m |
| 12 | Syria | 5.5% | 4.2% | 16.9m |
| 13 | Palestine | 5.2% | 68.4% | 4.9m |
| 14 | Iran | 3.3% | 1.7% | 81.8m |
| 15 | Yemen | 1.4% | 4.7% | 28.5m |
| 16 | Iraq | 1.0% | 4.9% | 38.4m |
| 17 | Egypt | 0.5% | 4.4% | 98.4m |
| The Middle East Avg | 28.6% | 9.8% | 25.6m | |
| q=17. | ||||
The countries in The Middle East with the highest percent of immigrants in their populations are UAE (88.4%), Kuwait (75.5%) and Qatar (65.2%), although the average for The Middle East is 29%. Conversely, emigration is highest in Palestine (68.4%), Cyprus (17.0%) and Lebanon (15.6%), whilst the regional average of emigrants for a country is 10%.