Islamabad, March 07: Pakistan is home to the second-largest number of Indian migrants after the United Arab Emirates, a new survey has reported.
“While many Indian migrants move to far-flung, wealthy countries like the US, Canada, and the UK, a large number of them ends up right next door in Pakistan. According to a new study by Pew Research, in 2015, Pakistan was home to the second-largest number of Indian migrants after the United Arab Emirates,” reported Quartz India.
According to the study, the number of international Indian migrants has more than doubled in past 25 years, growing nearly twice as fast as the world’s total migrant population.
“In 2015, 15.6 million people born in India were living in another country; that means one in every 20 migrants globally was born in India,” said the report.
By far the largest numbers of Indian migrants—about 3.5 million— live in the United Arab Emirates.
Pakistan is the second-most common destination with two million, while 1.97 million Indian migrants now live in the US.
Pakistan home to two million Indian migrants, second largest in the world
