Regional migrant stock LAC 2020

At mid-year 2020, Argentina was the Latin American country with the largest number of inmigrants coming from Latin American and Caribbean nations, as the volume of such immigrants went up to nearly 1.9 million. However, there were only 331,630 Argentinian emigrants from the country. It was followed by Colombia as the main country of destination of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants. The vast majority of those foreign residents in Colombia came from Venezuela.
While Haiti did not attract many inmigrants, it was the second most common country of origin of regional emigrants, with more than 868,400 Haitians having emigrated.

Number of regional emigrants and immigrants in selected Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2020 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Emigrants in LAC	Immigrants from LAC
Argentina	331.63	1,894.71
Colombia	1,454.01	1,838.77
Chile	306.24	1,526.17
Peru	556.18	1,072.89
Ecuador	123.53	640.39
Dominican Republic	145.94	551.47
Brazil	265.65	523.39
Costa Rica	34.19	467.47
Mexico	86.8	272.84
Panama	25.3	241.09
Bolivia	638.44	124.52
Uruguay	187.1	66.19
Honduras	94.54	28.89
Haiti	868.45	10.36

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Release date

December 2020

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Region

LAC

Survey time period

July 1, 2020

Special properties

international migrant stock at mid-year

Supplementary notes

International migrant stock is an estimation of the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained from population censuses. Additionally, population registers and nationally representative surveys provided information on the number and composition of international migrants. More methodological information can be found here.

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