Having just surpassed China as the world’s most populous country, India contains more than 1.4 billion people. Its migrants are both more numerous and more successful than their Chinese counterparts. The Indian diaspora has been the largest in the world since 2010.
Of the 281 million migrants spread around the globe today – generally defined as people who live outside the country where they were born – almost 18 million are Indians, according to the latest United Nations estimates from 2020. Mexican migrants, the second-biggest group, number just 11.2 million. Chinese abroad number 10½ million.
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