At 18 million, India has the world's largest diaspora population
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Last Updated: Jan 15, 2021, 10:31 PM IST
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A UN report said the spatial distribution of transnational populations varies greatly and India's diaspora, the largest in the world, is distributed across a number of major countries of destination.
India's large diaspora is distributed across the UAE (3.5 million), the US (2.7 million) and Saudi Arabia (2.5 million).
United Nations: India has the largest diaspora population in the world with 18 million people from the country living outside their homeland in 2020, according to a report by the United Nations, which says the UAE, the US and Saudi Arabia host the largest number of migrants from India.