With 16 million, India tops world in number of migrants abroad
The numbers are not a count of people by national origin or ethnicity and, therefore, do not include children of migrants born in the countries their parents went to.
UNITED NATIONS: Indian tops the world in the number of migrants sent abroad and more than half of the 16.59 million live in the Gulf region, according to a UN report.
The 2017 International Migration Report released here on Monday showed that during this century’s period of rapid globalisation, the number of Indian migrants doubled from 7.98 million in 2000.
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