India Second Largest Source of Migrants after Mexico

Bangalore: India is the second largest source of global migrants after Mexico, revealed a new study by the Pew Research Center. Russia takes the third position after India.

With nearly 43 million foreign-born residents, the U.S. has more than three times as many international migrants as any other single country, out of which 11 million are unauthorised immigrants.

Over 77 million migrants, which are about 36 percent of the worldwide total, have come from the 10 leading origin countries. The study also revealed that more than 50 percent of the global total, have gone to the 10 leading destination countries. Among the world’s top 10 destinations for migrants are Saudi Arabia (7.3 million foreign-born residents), Canada (7.2 million), France (6.7 million), the United Kingdom (6.5 million), Spain (6.4 million), India (5.4 million) and Ukraine (5.3 million).

Surprisingly, the second-largest group of migrants, about 28 percent is from Europe, largely the result of people moving from one European country to another. Latin America and the Caribbean rank third highest as a source of migrants (about 16 percent). Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East-North Africa region each are the origin of about 10 percent of all international migrants alive today, and North America is the origin of approximately 2 percent.

About one-fifth of international migrants have moved to the Asia-Pacific region, settling in India, Australia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Smaller numbers of migrants have ended up in the remaining regions of the Middle East-North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America plus the Caribbean.

China has been the source of more than 8 million emigrants while Bangladesh and Ukraine each have been the source of more than 6 million.