Mumbai: The United Nations recently released a report in which it claimed that with 16.59 million, India tops the list in the number of migrants living abroad. Out of them, half live in the Gulf. Of the international migrants (people living outside the country of their birth) which was estimated at 243 million in 2015, the Indian Diaspora constitutes nearly 6 per cent. After India, Mexico has the second largest diaspora, the report said.
The 2017 International Migration Report released here on Dec.18 showed that during this century’s period of rapid globalisation, the number of Indian migrants doubled from 7.98 million in 2000.
