Migration 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
Where people move to
Where people come from
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