Ranked: Where the World’s Migrants Live Today

Key Takeaways

• The U.S. hosts 52.4M migrants in 2024—more than any other country by a wide margin.
• European countries like Spain, Italy, and the UK have seen migrant populations roughly triple since 1990.
• Gulf nations including Saudi Arabia and the UAE have emerged as major migration hubs driven by labor demand.

Global migration has surged over the past three decades, reshaping where people live and work worldwide. Today, more than 280 million people live outside their country of birth, with a growing share concentrated in a handful of destinations.

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