MigrantoMigration trends in Honduras
Latin America
1.4M people from Honduras have built lives abroad. That's 12.9% of the country population, spread across 40 different countries
10.8M
Population
39.6K
Immigrants
1.4M
Emigrants
−1.4M
Outflow
Every 9th person born in Honduras now lives abroad
The #55 largest source of emigrants worldwide
Top corridors
The largest migration routes in Honduras
Key moments
How migration has changed since 1990
1990
270.3K immigrants · 157.8K emigrants
1995
- The country became a place of departure — more people leaving than arriving
- An accelerating exodus — the diaspora abroad grew by 49%
2000
- El Salvador overtook Nicaragua as the largest source of new arrivals
- Immigration contracted — the foreign-born population fell 81%
- The outflow deepened — net losses doubled to 287.7K
2005
- An accelerating exodus — the diaspora abroad grew by 44%
2010
- The diaspora abroad passed 500K people
2015
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 40%
2020
- An accelerating exodus — the diaspora abroad grew by 41%
- Surge of departures to Spain — 87.8K people left
- The diaspora abroad passed 1M people
Today
- Surge of departures to Mexico — 85.1K people left
- Since 1990: 230.6K fewer foreign-born residents and 1.2M more citizens living abroad
Data source: International Migrant Stock 2024 (UN DESA, Population Division)
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