United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis Population Division International Migration Policies, 1995 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Migration Stock, 1990 --------------------------------------- Percentage Percentage Number of of total of females in Region and country migrants population migrant stock ------------------ --------- ---------- ------------- Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda 11,865 18.6 51.9 ------------------------------------------------------------ Bahamas 26,710 10.5 48.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Barbados 25,690 10.0 55.4 ------------------------------------------------------------ Cuba 67,572 0.6 28.4 ------------------------------------------------------------ Dominica 2,471 3.5 48.5 ------------------------------------------------------------ Dominican Republic 173,832 2.5 36.2 ------------------------------------------------------------ Grenada 4,133 4.6 50.5 ------------------------------------------------------------ Haiti 17,784 0.3 56.8 ------------------------------------------------------------ Jamaica 18,698 0.8 51.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Saint Kitts and Nevis 2,468 5.9 50.5 ------------------------------------------------------------ Saint Lucia 5,228 4.0 50.7 ------------------------------------------------------------ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3,883 3.7 51.6 ------------------------------------------------------------ Trinidad and Tobago 61,320 5.0 51.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Central America Belize 23,210 12.5 40.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Costa Rica 177,414 5.9 61.0 ------------------------------------------------------------ El Salvador 50,442 1.0 50.4 ------------------------------------------------------------ Guatemala 43,510 0.5 51.4 ------------------------------------------------------------ Honduras 33,572 0.7 49.9 ------------------------------------------------------------ Mexico 339,243 0.4 49.8 ------------------------------------------------------------ Nicaragua 74,599 2.1 50.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Panama 60,844 2.6 47.2 ------------------------------------------------------------ South America Argentina 1,661,413 5.1 52.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Bolivia 65,483 1.0 47.5 ------------------------------------------------------------ Brazil 1,010,867 0.7 47.0 ------------------------------------------------------------ Chile 105,634 0.8 36.2 ------------------------------------------------------------ Colombia 100,773 0.3 49.7 ------------------------------------------------------------ Ecuador 77,855 0.8 49.6 ------------------------------------------------------------ Guyana 3,274 0.4 45.7 ------------------------------------------------------------ Paraguay 184,657 4.3 47.5 ------------------------------------------------------------ Peru 66,683 0.3 49.6 ------------------------------------------------------------ Suriname 8,467 2.1 48.0 ------------------------------------------------------------ Uruguay 93,282 3.0 54.3 ------------------------------------------------------------ Venezuela 1,027,721 5.3 48.5 ------------------------------------------------------------ Definitions: ----------- Migrant stock, 1990 refers to o the estimated total number of international migrants who lived in the country on 1 January 1990 o international migrants as a percentage of the total population in the country o females as a percentage of all international migrants Notes: ----- Two dots (..) indicate that data are not readily available. Sources: ------- International Migration Policies (United Nations publication, forthcoming) Global Population Policy Database, 1993 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.9) World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.16) United Nations Demographic Yearbook (various issues) Databases of the Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis of the United Nations Secretariat, such as Trends in Total Migrant Stock, Diskette Documentation, 1995 (POP/1B/DB/95/1) and the Population Policy Data Bank, both maintained by the Population Division, and the MEDS database maintained by the Macroeconomic and Social Policy Analysis Division Information Paper, 1994 (Geneva, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, 1994) Population of Concern to UNHCR: A Statistical Overview, 1993 (Geneva, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, 1994) United Nations publication, (ST/ESA/SER.A/154), Sales No. E.96.XIII.7 Copyright (C) United Nations 1996