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Migration trends in Aruba

Latin America

71K people from around the world have made Aruba their home. That's 65.7% of the country population, arriving from 22 different countries

108K

Population

71K

Immigrants

29.3K

Emigrants

+41.7K

Inflow

Every 2nd person in Aruba was born abroad

The #146 largest immigrant destination worldwide

Top corridors

The largest migration routes in Aruba

Where people come from

🥇🇻🇪Venezuela23.3K32.8%
🥈🇨🇴Colombia15K21.1%

Where people move to

🥇🇳🇱Netherlands23.4K79.8%
🥈🇨🇼Curaçao2.8K9.5%

Key moments

How migration has changed since 1990

1990

11.1K immigrants · 4.6K emigrants

1995

  • Roughly 1 in 5 residents was now foreign-born
  • A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 71%
  • Net migration doubled — the annual surplus reached 14.2K

2010

  • Migration accounted for 63% of the country's population growth

2020

  • Venezuela overtook Colombia as the largest source of new arrivals
  • A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 50%

Today

  • An accelerating exodus — the diaspora abroad grew by 76%
  • Since 1990: 59.9K more foreign-born residents and roughly the same number of citizens living abroad