The top 5 migrant destinations are the United States, Russia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Canada. Several countries have large diasporas numbering over 1 million people living abroad, including India, China, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Around one-third of global migration represents 'brain drain' where educated individuals emigrate from their home country.

1. TOP 5 MIGRANT
DESTINATIONS
RUSSIA
CANADA
GERMANY
10%
OF SWISS CITIZENS
LIVE OUTSIDE
U.S. SWITZERLAND THE CHINESE
DIASPORA Countries with
NUMBERS APPROX 1 million+ chinese:
Indonesia
50 MILLION Thailand
THE INDIAN Malaysia
SAUDI DIASPORA
Singapore
ARABIA NUMBERS APPROX
Philippines
30 MILLION AMONG
Vietnam
JAPANESE DEVELOPING Burma
COUNTRIES, THE United states
MIGRANTS MAKE PHILIPPINES HAD THE
UP ONE QUARTER Canada
THE MALAYSIAN- HIGHEST NUMBER OF
OF HAWAII’S UNIVERSITY-EDUCATED
POPULATION BORN MIGRANT
POPULATION EMIGRANTS LEAVING ITS
IS APPROX SHORES (1,126,260
PEOPLE) IN
THE LARGEST
DIASPORA OF 1 MILLION 2000.
SWISS
IS IN ARGENTINA
OF THE ENTIRE
AUSTRALIAN
MIGRATION
PROGRAM, SKILLED
MIGRANTS COMPRISE
60%
AROUND ONE-THIRD
OF ALL MIGRATION
REPRESENTS ‘BRAIN DRAIN’
FOR THE HOME COUNTRY.