Total population | |
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According to the International Organization for Migration, there are 13 million Arab migrants, of whom 5.8 million reside in Arab countries. | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Brazil | 12,000,000 |
France | 6,000,000 |
Indonesia | 5,000,000 |
Argentina | 4,500,000 |
United States | 3,500,000 |
Turkey | 1,800,000–2,600,000 |
Israel | 1,700,000 |
Venezuela | 1,600,000 |
Colombia | 1,500,000 |
Iran | 1,500,000 |
Chad | 1,400,000 |
Mexico | 1,100,000 |
Chile | 1,000,000 |
Germany | 500,000 |
United Kingdom | 500,000 |
Canada | 450,000 |
Netherlands | 480,000 |
Australia | 350,000 |
Honduras | 150,000-200,000 |
Languages | |
Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese Turkish among others |
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Religion | |
Predominantly Christianity in the Americas, Islam in Europe , but also Druze and irreligion, among others | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Arab diaspora refers to descendants of the Arab immigrants who, voluntarily or as refugees, emigrated from their native lands in non-Arab countries, primarily in East Africa, South America, Europe, North America, and parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and West Africa.
According to the International Organization for Migration, there are 13 million, of which 5.8 million reside in Arab countries. Arab expatriates contribute to the circulation of financial and human capital in the region and thus significantly promote regional development. In 2009 Arab countries received a total of 35.1 billion USD in remittance in-flows and remittances sent to Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon from other Arab countries are 40 to 190 per cent higher than trade revenues between these and other Arab countries. Large numbers of Arabs migrated to West Africa, particularly Côte d'Ivoire,Senegal,Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria. Since the end of the civil war in 2002, Lebanese traders have become re-established in Sierra Leone.
Arab traders have long operated in Southeast Asia, trading in spices, timber and textiles. But an important trading minority in the region that goes largely unrecognised comprises the local descendants of Arabs. Most of the prominent Indonesians, Malaysians, and Singaporeans of Arab descent have their origins in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, especially the coastal Hadhramaut region of Yemen and Oman. They are the Hadramis. As many as four million Indonesians are of Hadrami descent, and today there are almost 10,000 Hadramis in Singapore.