TOTAL AND MIGRANT POPULATION BY REGION, IN 2000

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Source: United Nations,Trends in Total Migrant Stock: the 2003 Revision. Database maintained by the Population Division of the Department for Economic and Social Affairs, 2003.POP/DB/MIG/2003/1/Trends in total Migrant Stock by Sex 1990-2000.

In 2000, Europe hosted the largest migrant population of all world regions, over 56 million(including the European part of the Former Soviet Union), followed by Asia with nearly 50 million (including the Asian part of the Former Soviet Union) and North America with just over 40 million immigrants. Among these three regions, North America had the highest proportion of migrants in the population, 12.9 per cent, and Asia the lowest with only 1.4 per cent. Among all regions, Oceania’s 5.8 million immigrants represented the highest share at 18.7 per cent of the total population of the region. (Note that these global statistics for 2000 are derived from the UN Population Division’s 2003 revision of “Trends in Total Migrant Stock”, which uses two different regional constellations for Europe. The one illustrated in this Map places the countries that were part of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) either in Europe orin Asia. The other (reflected in Table 23.1 provided by UNPD in Chapter 23) classifies the Former Soviet Union as a region in itself, with 29.5 million migrants, leaving Europe with an estimated 32.8 million andAsia with 43.8 million migrants in 2000.) The UN’s depiction of Asia in this map also includes central and west Asia (compare chapter 6, which excludes these sub-regions).