Migration trends in Vietnam
Asia
3.7M people from Vietnam have built lives abroad. That's 3.7% of the country population, spread across 64 different countries
101M
Population
195.8K
Immigrants
3.7M
Emigrants
−3.5M
Outflow
1 in every 28 people born in Vietnam now lives abroad
The #21 largest source of emigrants worldwide
Top corridors
The largest migration routes in Vietnam
Where people move to
Key moments
How migration has changed since 1990
1990
34.7K immigrants · 1.1M emigrants
2005
- China overtook Cambodia as the largest source of new arrivals
- Surge of departures to Taiwan — 118.3K people left
2020
- Entered the world's 20 largest diasporas
- Surge of departures to Japan — 313.5K people left
Today
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 166%
- The foreign-born population passed 100K residents
- Since 1990: 161.2K more foreign-born residents and 2.6M more citizens living abroad