List of countries by immigrant population

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List of countries by immigrant population

This is a list of countries by immigrant population
Immigration

While the movement of people has thought throughout history at various levels, modern immigration tourism are considered non-immigrants . Immigration that violates the immigration laws of the destination country is termed illegal immigration or undocumented immigration....
, based on the United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
report World Population Policies 2005. The total immigrant population was estimated to be 186,579,300. UN member

United Nations member states

This article lists the member states of the United Nations . There are currently 192 UN member states, and each of them is a member of the United Nations General Assembly....
and observer states

United Nations General Assembly observers

In addition to the current United Nations member states, the United Nations welcomes many international agencies, entities, and one non-member state as observers....
are ranked.

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Rank	State State A state is a political Social contract with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, State or multinational states....	Number of immigrants	X	Immigrants as percentage of national population	Notes
1		38,355,000		12.81
2		12,080,000		8.483
3		10,144,000		12.31
4		6,833,000		14.7
5		6,471,000		10.18
6		6,361,000		25.25
7		6,106,000		18.76
8		5,700,000		0.517
9		5,408,000		8.982
10		4,790,000		10.79
11		4,097,000		19.93
12	People's Republic of China People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....	3,852,000		0.2944	does not include Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south.... (SAR Special administrative region (People's Republic of China) A Special Administrative Region is a highly autonomous and largely self-governing subnational entity of the People's Republic of China. Each SAR has a gubernatorial chief executive as head of the region and head of government.... ) and Macau Macau The Macau Special Administrative Region, , commonly known as Macau or Macao , is one of the two special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong.... (SAR)
13	Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...	3,254,000		1.984
14		3,212,000		71.4
	(PR China People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population.... )	2,999,000		42.59
15		2,661,000		99.99
16		2,519,000		4.288
17		2,502,000		16.88
18		2,371,000		13.06
19		2,225,000		39.01
20		2,048,000		1.599
21		1,959,000		2.861
22		1,843,000		42.6
		1,680,000		45.38
23		1,669,000		7.548
24		1,669,000		62.11
25		1,660,000		22.89
26		1,639,000		6.15
27		1,638,000		10.05
28		1,500,000		3.871
29		1,328,000		1.814
30		1,268,000		4.768
31		1,234,000		14.9
32		1,191,000		12.21
33		1,117,000		12.3
34		1,106,000		2.332
35		1,050,000		1.635
36		1,032,000		0.7277
37		1,010,000		3.776
38		985,000	×	5.173
39		974,000	×	8.662
40		971,000	×	0.7382
41		819,000	×	3.018
42		792,000	×	2.066
43		773,000	×	5.844
44		764,000	×	7.204
45		719,000	×	6.901
46		703,000	×	1.843
47		661,000	×	14.52
48		657,000	×	16.96
49		644,000	×	0.6017
50		642,000	×	15.48
51		641,000	×	0.3439
52		639,000	×	1.727
53		637,000	×	75.9
54		628,000	×	24.46
55		618,000	×	10.56
56		585,000	×	13.81
57		555,000	×	0.7393
58		551,000	×	1.152
59		539,000	×	0.9086
60		518,000	×	1.876
61		512,000	×	4.726	The UN report was produced before Montenegro Montenegro Montenegro , Montenegrin language/Serbian language: ???? ????, Crna Gora , ) is a country located in Balkans. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south.... and Serbia Serbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans.... gained independence from each Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 The Montenegrin independence referendum was a referendum on the independence of the Montenegro from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro that was held on 21 May, 2006.... other on June 3, 2006
62		511,000	×	3.928
63		453,000	×	4.413
64		449,000	×	19.46
65		441,000	×	10.19
66		440,000	×	12.96
67		437,000	×	4.483
68		406,000	×	2.051
69		406,000	×	4.318
70		389,000	×	7.163
71		374,000	×	0.4503
72		368,000	×	1.774
73		345,000	×	1.007
74		344,000	×	7.37
75		326,000	×	2.796
76		316,000	×	3.136
77		306,000	×	4.703
78		304,000	×	2.16
79		295,000	×	42.22
80		288,000	×	7.202
81		288,000	×	5.471
82		282,000	×	3.427
83		279,000	×	2.165
84		275,000	×	2.357
85		265,000	×	1.263
		257,000	×	51.09
86		245,000	×	17.7
87		242,000	×	0.7366
88		235,000	×	7.308
89		232,000	×	15.29
90		231,000	×	1.406
91		224,000	×	4.634
92		202,000	×	15.19
93		191,000	×	4.269
94		183,000	×	2.978
95		182,000	×	2.164
96		175,000	×	2.074
97		174,000	×	37.42
98		168,000	×	2.728
99		167,000	×	8.332
100		166,000	×	0.2242
101		165,000	×	4.809
102		160,000	×	0.0718
103		156,000	×	2.962
104		156,000	×	1.754
105		143,000	×	7.041
106		137,000	×	0.8394
107		133,000	×	0.596
108		132,000	×	0.4193
109		124,000	×	33.16
110		124,000	×	2.296
111		124,000	×	0.8884
112		123,000	×	0.2697
113		121,000	×	1.339
114		121,000	×	5.949
115		119,000	×	2.154
116		117,000	×	0.2316
117		116,000	×	13.89
118		116,000	×	1.263
119		114,000	×	0.8618
120		104,000	×	1.346
121		102,000	×	3.156
122		100,000	×	1.325
123		84,000	×	2.426
124		83,000	×	2.317
125		80,000	×	4.533
126		76,000	×	1.882
127		74,000	×	0.6501
128		67,000	×	8.396
129		66,000	×	2.151
130		63,000	×	0.3386
131		56,000	×	0.3513
132		53,000	×	0.4141
133		52,000	×	77.25
134		50,000	×	1.523
135		46,000	×	0.3403
136		45,000	×	4.36
137		43,000	×	0.144
138		42,000	×	0.1502
139		41,000	×	15.19
140		41,000	×	0.9113
141		38,000	×	0.3762
142		38,000	×	2.912
143		37,000	×	0.16
144		32,000	×	9.907
145		30,000	×	0.3518
146		28,000	×	0.5103
147		28,000	×	0.0972
148		26,000	×	9.311
149		26,000	×	0.3609
150		25,000	×	70.11
151		25,000	×	0.422
152		25,000	×	0.4247
153		24,000	×	0.3429
154		23,000	×	7.667
155		21,000	×	1.687
156		21,000	×	0.0249
157		20,000	×	2.522
158		19,000	×	1.198
159		18,000	×	22.09
160		18,000	×	0.679
161		17,000	×	2.005
162		15,000	×	0.3408
163		12,000	×	35.31
164		11,000	×	10.68
165		11,000	×	2.723
166		11,000	×	2.17
167		10,000	×	8.403
168		10,000	×	0.448
169		9,000	×	5.6
170		9,000	×	4.865
171		9,000	×	0.3401
172		9,000	×	32.01
173		7,000	×	4.459
174		6,000	×	1.19
175		6,000	×	0.334
176		6,000	×	0.6336
177		5,000	×	7.257
178		5,000	×	38.45
179		5,000	×	6.199
180		5,000	×	1.114
181		4,000	×	3.687
182		4,000	×	9.369
183		3,000	×	15.04
184		3,000	×	3.02
		3,000	×	16.04	Non-sovereign Sovereignty File:Leviathan gr.jpgSovereignty is the exclusive right to control a government, a State, a people, or oneself. A sovereign is a supreme lawmaking authority.... territory in association with New Zealand
185		3,000	×	0.9119
186		3,000	×	0.6276
187		2,000	×	3.228
188		1,000	×	100	Due to the unique nature of the Vatican state, there are no natural citizens
189		1,000	×	0.9804
190		1,000	×	0.4739
191		1,000	×	0.1332
192		300	×	2.873
		100	×	4.617	Non-sovereign territory in association with New Zealand

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Western Sahara

Western Sahara is a territory of North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west....
is under military occupation

Military occupation

Belligerent military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory passes to a belligerent....
by Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
. Immigration to the Moroccan-administered region

Southern Provinces

The Southern Provinces or Moroccan Sahara are the Moroccan names for Western Sahara in reference to the provinces of R?o de Oro and Saguia el-Hamra....
is primarily Moroccan settlers. The area

Free Zone (region)

The Free Zone is a term used by the Polisario Front to describe the part of Western Sahara that lies to the east of the Moroccan Border Wall and west and north of the borders with Algeria and Mauritania, respectively....
administered by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a Legal status of Western Sahara which claims sovereignty over the entire territory of Western Sahara, a former Spain colony....
is sparsely populated.)