Pinoys top foreigners in 16 nations - WB

July 31, 2008  --  Got something to say?
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WASHINGTON D.C. = The World Bank said in a recent report Filipinos are among the top 10 foreign immigrants in 16 big and small countries in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.
In its “Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008″, the Bank said Filipinos lead
the number of foreigners in Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia,
Canada, Cyprus, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Marshall
Islands, Micronesia, Oman, Palau, Saudi Arabia, the Solomon Islands, and
the US.
Five of these countries are members of the bloc Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The World Bank report bared data on the estimated number of migrants ?or
what it calls “immigrants” based on the 2005 United Nations Population
Division report.
The tiny island of Palau, some 800 kilometers east of the Philippines,
hosts the most number of Filipinos among 3,036 foreigners. This diving
haven is home to some 20,000 people.
Data from the state-run Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) show
there are 4,495 Filipinos in Palau. Twenty-one of them are considered
permanent residents while some 4,434 are temporary migrant workers. CFO
estimates the rest are undocumented.
Manila to Koror, Palau’s capital, is 90 minutes apart. It takes half
that time if flying to or from the southern Philippine province of Davao.
Meanwhile, Filipinos are the second biggest foreigner group in Malaysia,
Brunei, and the United States, according to the World Bank report and
CFO estimates.
The US, the Philippines’s top source country of remittances, has some
38.4 million foreigners, says the WB.
Filipinos are behind US neighbor Mexico as the biggest foreigner group,
as CFO estimates that there are now 3.4 million Filipinos in that continent.
The WB report showed that of Malaysia’s 1.6 million foreigners, over a
hundred thousand are Filipinos (100,233). The CFO June 2007 data
confirms this.
Brunei, for its part, has some 124,193 foreigners; CFO estimates some
22,939 are Filipinos.
Filipinos form the third-biggest number of foreigners in Korea (50,165
of a total 551,193 foreigners) and the Marshall Islands.
The Marshall Islands, located in the western Pacific Ocean, have a
thousand Filipinos as the third biggest foreigner group out of its
estimated number of 1,667 foreigners: 2.7 percent of its total 65,000
people.
Solomon Islands has some 3,279 foreigners out of some 489,000 people.
CFO estimates there are 758 Filipinos there.
Filipinos are also the fourth-biggest group in Italy, which has roughly
2.5 million foreigners. Some 119,083 Filipinos are estimated to be in
Italy, says CFO.
Saudi Arabia, the workplace of an estimated 1,016,820 Filipinos
according to CFO data, shows that Filipinos are the fifth biggest
immigrant group.
The Muslim nation of some 24 million has some 6.36 million immigrants.
Filipinos form also the fifth-largest immigrant group in Japan; the
country having some 2.05 million foreigners, according to the World Bank
report. There are an estimated 313,291 Filipinos in Japan, CFO data reveals.
Cyprus is estimated to have some 116,137 immigrants and Filipinos are
ranked sixth. CFO data show that there are 12,406 Filipinos in Cyprus.
Filipinos are also the sixth-biggest in Oman, which has some 627,571.
CFO estimates there are some 33,000 Filipinos.
Filipinos are the seventh-biggest foreigner group in Canada (total of
6,105,722 foreigners) and Iceland (23,097 foreigners). In these
countries, CFO estimates there are 789,943 and 1,400 Filipinos in Canada
and Iceland, respectively.
The eighth-biggest group of foreigners in Australia’s 4.1 million and
Cambodia?s 303,871 immigrant population are Filipinos, which are
estimated to number to 232,447 and 1,572, respectively. *end*


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