Tunisia - International migrant stock

International migrant stock, total

The value for International migrant stock, total in Tunisia was 56,701 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 169,202 in 1960 and a minimum value of 35,040 in 2005.

Definition: International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained mainly from population censuses. The estimates are derived from the data on foreign-born population--people who have residence in one country but were born in another country. When data on the foreign-born population are not available, data on foreign population--that is, people who are citizens of a country other than the country in which they reside--are used as estimates. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 people living in one of the newly independent countries who were born in another were classified as international migrants. Estimates of migrant stock in the newly independent states from 1990 on are based on the 1989 census of the Soviet Union. For countries with information on the international migrant stock for at least two points in time, interpolation or extrapolation was used to estimate the international migrant stock on July 1 of the reference years. For countries with only one observation, estimates for the reference years were derived using rates of change in the migrant stock in the years preceding or following the single observation available. A model was used to estimate migrants for countries that had no data.

Source: United Nations Population Division, Trends in Total Migrant Stock: 2012 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 169,202
1965 76,356
1970 51,436
1975 37,912
1980 37,985
1985 38,029
1990 37,984
1995 37,867
2000 36,446
2005 35,040
2010 43,172
2015 56,701

International migrant stock (% of population)

International migrant stock (% of population) in Tunisia was 0.504 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 0.504 in 2015, while its lowest value was 0.347 in 2005.

Definition: International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained mainly from population censuses. The estimates are derived from the data on foreign-born population--people who have residence in one country but were born in another country. When data on the foreign-born population are not available, data on foreign population--that is, people who are citizens of a country other than the country in which they reside--are used as estimates. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 people living in one of the newly independent countries who were born in another were classified as international migrants. Estimates of migrant stock in the newly independent states from 1990 on are based on the 1989 census of the Soviet Union. For countries with information on the international migrant stock for at least two points in time, interpolation or extrapolation was used to estimate the international migrant stock on July 1 of the reference years. For countries with only one observation, estimates for the reference years were derived using rates of change in the migrant stock in the years preceding or following the single observation available. A model was used to estimate migrants for countries that had no data.

Source: United Nations Population Division, Trends in Total Migrant Stock: 2008 Revision.

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Year Value
1990 0.461
1995 0.415
2000 0.376
2005 0.347
2010 0.406
2015 0.504

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration