* Year given refers to July 1.
Data are estimates based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
Countries that have less than 3,000 international migrants residing in Egypt are 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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International migrants in Egypt 2020, by country of origin
In 2020, Egypt hosted approximately *** thousand international migrants. The vast majority were from the State of Palestine, and Syria, amounting to roughly *** thousand and *** thousand, respectively. Together, the two countries constituted over ** percent of the total international migrants living in Egypt. Moreover, the third major migrant nationality (** thousand people) was from the neighboring country Sudan. Overall, the ** countries presented covered close to ** percent of the migrants residing in Egypt.
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