Statistics

Stocks

Stocks are the total number of immigrants — the result of years of migrant flows.

Data on stocks usually come from population registers but also from censuses and other sources. European countries tend to keep more data on foreign citizens, while the traditional countries of settlement are more concerned with counting the foreign born.

For the latest UN Estimates on global stocks consult the UN Population Division website.

Table 3a — OECD countries, foreign citizens, and foreign born

Table 3b — Countries of settlement, foreign born as a percentage of total population

Source: SOPEMI 2007).International Migration Outlook, Paris, OECD

These and other data pages are available in Excel form by clicking the link below:
International migration data