Pacific island small states - International migrant stock

International migrant stock, total

The value for International migrant stock, total in Pacific island small states was 48,359 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48,359 in 2015 and a minimum value of 36,910 in 1970.

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 38,580
1965 37,370
1970 36,910
1975 37,989
1980 39,496
1985 38,771
1990 39,024
1995 42,270
2000 45,219
2005 44,841
2010 46,061
2015 48,359

International migrant stock (% of population)

International migrant stock (% of population) in Pacific island small states was 2.01 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 2.31 in 1990, while its lowest value was 2.01 in 2015.

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 2.31
1995 2.30
2000 2.30
2005 2.16
2010 2.06
2015 2.01

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration