Paraguay - International migrant stock

International migrant stock, total

The value for International migrant stock, total in Paraguay was 156,462 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 195,884 in 1990 and a minimum value of 50,010 in 1960.

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 50,010
1965 56,449
1970 73,061
1975 100,929
1980 145,743
1985 174,301
1990 195,884
1995 186,570
2000 176,608
2005 168,243
2010 160,299
2015 156,462

International migrant stock (% of population)

International migrant stock (% of population) in Paraguay was 2.36 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 4.65 in 1990, while its lowest value was 2.36 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 4.65
1995 3.92
2000 3.33
2005 2.90
2010 2.58
2015 2.36

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration