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In 2012, there were an estimated 240,000 Britons living in the country, representing the largest Western community in the United Arab Emirates and the largest British community both in the Middle East and in the Arab world. [159] Prior to 2008, there were 120,000 expatriates holding British passports in the UAE.
However, official 2010 census figures stated that there were 8,429,401 expatriates out of a total population of 27,136,977 or roughly 31 per cent of the total. [16] According to the United Nations (mid-year 2015, counted numbers — not estimates, including refugees) there were 10,185,945 foreign-origin migrants in Saudi Arabia. [17]
Expatriate French voters queue in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the first round of the presidential election of 2007. An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their country of citizenship. [1] The term often refers to a professional, skilled worker, or student from an affluent country. [2]
There are no exact figures on how many Americans live abroad. The United States Census Bureau does not count Americans abroad, and individual U.S. embassies offer only rough estimates. In 1999, a Department of State estimate suggested that the number of Americans abroad may be between three million and six million.
In 2005, the number of Americans living in China reached a historic high of 110,000. [1] Most expatriates living in China come from neighboring Asian nations. An estimate published in 2018 counted 600,000 people of other nations living in China, with 12% of those from the US; that means approximately 72,000 Americans living in China.
Demographics of Dubai. The population of Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, is estimated to be 3.5 million as of April 2022 according to government data. [1][2] As of 2021, 3.2 million were non-Emirati, and 69% were male. [3] About 58.50% of the population is concentrated in the 25-44 age group.
The British diaspora consists of people of English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Cornish, Manx and Channel Islands ancestral descent who live outside of the United Kingdom and its Crown Dependencies. In 2008, the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office estimated that at least 80% of New Zealanders had some British ancestry, however ...
Many expatriates find it more practical to sell most of their possessions in the U.S. and start fresh in their new country instead of paying costly shipping prices for their belongings.