El Salvador - International migrant stock

International migrant stock, total

The value for International migrant stock, total in El Salvador was 42,045 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47,360 in 1990 and a minimum value of 28,258 in 1985.

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 34,446
1965 34,453
1970 32,534
1975 30,963
1980 29,719
1985 28,258
1990 47,360
1995 39,537
2000 31,713
2005 36,019
2010 40,324
2015 42,045

International migrant stock (% of population)

International migrant stock (% of population) in El Salvador was 0.686 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 0.902 in 1990, while its lowest value was 0.546 in 2000.

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 0.902
1995 0.707
2000 0.546
2005 0.606
2010 0.668
2015 0.686

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration