NationMaster - Guinean Immigration statistics

immigrant population > Immigrants as percentage of state population	4.318	[88th of 195]
immigrant population > Number of immigrants	406,000	[68th of 195]
immigrant population > Percentage of total number of immigrants in the world	>0.5%
International migration stock > % of population	4.32 %	[98th of 205]
International migration stock, total	405,772	[71st of 205]
Net migration	-299,219	[154th of 180]
Net migration rate	-1.63 migrant(s)/1,000 populati	[129th of 225]
Net migration rate > A note as a result of civil war in neighboring countries, Guinea is host to approximately 150,000 Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees (2002 est.)
Refugee population by country or territory of asylum	63,525	[30th of 151]
Refugee population by country or territory of origin	5,820	[61st of 77]
Refugees	413,700	[11th of 110]
Refugees > Convention on refugees	28 Dec 1965 d
Refugees > Outflow	2,000	[56th of 76]
Refugees and internally displaced persons > IDPs	19,000	[26th of 40]
Refugees and internally displaced persons > Refugees (country of origin) 21,856 (Liberia); 5,259 (Sierra Leone); 3,900 (Cote d'Ivoire)
US visa lottery winners	22 US visa lottery winners	[118th of 178]

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SOURCES: Wikipedia: List of countries by immigrant population ; World Development Indicators database; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; United Nations Treaty Collection; UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). 2002. Correspondence on refugees and internally displaced persons. February. Geneva.; US Department of State: Bureau of Consular Affairs

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Guinea, Republic of Guinea, Republique de Guinee, Guinee

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