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India has the largest diaspora population in the world with 18 million people from the country living outside their homeland in 2020, according to a report by the United Nations, which says the UAE, the US and Saudi Arabia host the largest number of migrants from India.
The report International Migration 2020 Highlights , by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) released on Friday, said the spatial distribution of transnational populations varies greatly and India s diaspora, the largest in the world, is distributed across a number of major countries of destination.
In 2020, 18 million persons from India were living outside their country of birth. Other countries with a large diaspora population included Mexico and Russia (11 million each), China (10 million) and Syria (8 million).
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At 18 million, India has the world s largest diaspora population
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A UN report said the spatial distribution of transnational populations varies greatly and India s diaspora, the largest in the world, is distributed across a number of major countries of destination.
India s large diaspora is distributed across the UAE (3.5 million), the US (2.7 million) and Saudi Arabia (2.5 million).
United Nations: India has the largest diaspora population in the world with 18 million people from the country living outside their homeland in 2020, according to a report by the United Nations, which says the UAE, the US and Saudi Arabia host the largest number of migrants from India.
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