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Migration trends
Timor-Leste's diaspora is closely tied to its giant neighbor: of about 109.6K people living abroad, roughly 95.6K are in Indonesia, dwarfing Australia and Portugal. That diaspora far outnumbers the small foreign-born population at home, and it has grown 69% over the past decade.
Immigrants7.2K · foreign-born residents
Diaspora109.6K · Timorese abroad
Trends−102.5K · more leave than arrive
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