{"id":6329,"date":"2019-11-29T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=6329"},"modified":"2019-11-29T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T10:44:40","slug":"india-continues-to-be-the-largest-country-of-origin-of-international-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-continues-to-be-the-largest-country-of-origin-of-international-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"India continues to be the largest country of origin of international migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As per International Organisation for Migration\u2019s (IOM) latest report, \u2018Global Migration Report 2020\u2019, India continues to be the largest country of origin of international migrants with a 17.5 million-strong diaspora across the world. India also received the highest remittance of $78.6 billion from Indians living abroad. This is a very small percentage of the world\u2019s population (at 3.5%), that is, the vast majority of people globally (96.5%) are estimated to be residing in the country in which they were born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from U.S., other important migration corridors from\npoorer countries to richer nations were France, Russia, the United Arab\nEmirates and Saudi Arabia. The Gulf countries have some of the largest numbers\nof temporary labour migrants in the world, including the United Arab Emirates,\nwhere they make up almost 90% of the population. Ongoing conflicts and violence\nin Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),\nMyanmar, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen have led to massive internal displacement\nin the last two years. A total of 41.3 million people were forced to flee their\nhomes at the end of 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per International Organisation for Migration\u2019s (IOM) latest report, \u2018Global Migration Report 2020\u2019, India continues to be the largest country of origin of international migrants with a 17.5 million-strong diaspora across the world. India also received the highest remittance of $78.6 billion from Indians living abroad. 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