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Muslims account for 29% of global migrants and most commonly live in the Middle-East North Africa and Asia-Pacific regions.

Hindus make up just 5% of all migrants. They most commonly live in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and North Africa, and North America.

Religiously unaffiliated people are underrepresented among migrants, making up 13% of migrants but 23% of the global population.

Buddhist migrants – who make up 4% of all migrants – are heavily concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region.

Christians are the largest religious group among migrants. Most Christian migrants live in Europe or North America.

Jews are more likely than other major religious groups to live outside their country of birth, yet they account for just 1% of all global migrants.

Migration outpaced global population growth by 83% to 47% from 1990-2020. Buddhist and Muslim migrants more than doubled in number during this time.

For each destination country, this Appendix tabulates the methods of deriving the religious composition of migrant stocks from various origin countries. We only estimate the religious composition of origin-destination country pairs that appear in the United Nations’ migrant stock database. For example, for Afghanistan, the UN only provides estimates of the number of migrants from […]