Countries with the Most Immigrants 2024
Source:
World Bank
Key Findings
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United States leads in International migrant stock (people) with 52,375,047 in 2024.
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Average International migrant stock (people) in 2024: 9,636,268 · median: 7,344,638.
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Gap in 2024: United States is 15.8× larger than Kuwait.
About This Dataset
Countries with the Most Immigrants 2024
The 20 countries hosting the largest number of people born abroad in 2024. The United States hosts the most at 52,375,047 people, ahead of Germany at 16,750,084 and Saudi Arabia at 13,683,841. This counts everyone living in a country who was born in another one, whatever their reason for moving. Data covers 215 countries and territories.
Analysis
The United States alone hosts more foreign-born residents than the next 5 countries on this list combined. The 20 shown here account for 63.8% of all people counted as living outside their country of birth.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2024 · 20 observations
- Measure
- International migrant stock (people)
- Last updated
- 31 August 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
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