Myanmar - International migrant stock

International migrant stock, total

The value for International migrant stock, total in Myanmar was 73,308 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 286,559 in 1960 and a minimum value of 73,308 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: 2012 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 286,559
1965 279,484
1970 272,584
1975 265,854
1980 188,051
1985 133,053
1990 133,545
1995 113,663
2000 98,011
2005 83,025
2010 76,414
2015 73,308

International migrant stock (% of population)

International migrant stock (% of population) in Myanmar was 0.136 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 0.318 in 1990, while its lowest value was 0.136 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 0.318
1995 0.254
2000 0.206
2005 0.166
2010 0.148
2015 0.136

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration