* Years given refer to July 1.
Data are estimates based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
Countries with less than 25,000 migrants have been excluded.
The source defines an international migrant as 鈥渁ny person who changes his or her country of usual residence鈥.
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Number of emigrants from Egypt 2020, by country of destination
In 2020, cumulative Egyptian emigrants amounted to roughly *** million. Of these, the vast majority settled in Saudi Arabia, followed by the United Arab Emirates, amounting to roughly *** thousand and *** thousand, respectively. The two countries alone constituted over ** percent of the total Egyptian migrants outside of Egypt. Moreover, the third major country of destination for Egyptians was Kuwait with about *** thousand people living there. Overall, the ** countries presented covered ** percent of all Egyptian migrants.
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