Main destinations for Venezuelan migrants 2020

At mid-year 2020, Venezuela's total international migrant stock amounted to more than five million people. Neighboring Colombia was the main country of destination of Venezuelan emigrants, with over 1.7 million. Peru came in second, as almost 950,000 Venezuelans had emigrated there, followed by Chile, where over 500,000 Venezuelans resided after leaving their home country.

Leading countries of destination of Venezuelan emigrants in 2020

Characteristic	Number of emigrants
Colombia	1,780,486
Peru	941,889
Chile	523,553
U.S.**	505,647
Ecuador	388,861
Spain	325,667
Brazil	248,105
Argentina	176,369
Panama	119,553
Mexico	70,377
Italy	59,432
Dominican Republic	34,063
Costa Rica	28,214
Portugal	27,732
Trinidad & Tobago	24,001
Guyana	23,326
Canada	22,375
Aruba	17,000
Curaçao	16,500
Uruguay	14,908
Germany	10,095
U.K.***	8,611
Australia	7,560
France****	7,249
Bolivia	5,707

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January 2021

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Region

Venezuela

Survey time period

2020

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International migrant stock at mid-year by area of destination*

Supplementary notes

* International migrant stock is an estimation of the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained from population censuses. Additionally, population registers and nationally representative surveys provided information on the number and composition of international migrants. More methodological information can be found here.
**The data for United States of America do not include American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and United States Virgin Islands.
***The data for United Kingdom do not include Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Montserrat, Saint Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands.
****The data for France do not include French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin (French part), Wallis and Futuna Islands.

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