"Top 10 Economies Hosting Migrants from Asia and COVID-19 Cases"
"Table 5.2"
,Number of Asian migrants (in millions),Share of total,,Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases*,Share of global total
United States,"13,177,721",14.4%,,"19,968,087",23.9%
Saudi Arabia,"9,167,287",10.0%,,"362,741",0.4%
Russian Federation,"6,806,668",7.5%,,"3,127,347",3.7%
United Arab Emirates,"6,517,803",7.1%,,"207,822",0.2%
India,"5,097,377",5.6%,,"10,266,674",12.3%
Australia,"3,713,494",4.1%,,"28,425",0.0%
Thailand,"3,617,946",4.0%,,"7,163",0.0%
Canada,"3,307,678",3.6%,,"584,409",0.7%
Malaysia,"3,186,689",3.5%,,"113,010",0.1%
Pakistan,"3,180,724",3.5%,,"482,178",0.6%
Top 10 total,"57,773,387",64.0%,,"35,147,856",42.1%
Note: *The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases are as of 31 December2020; the number of global cases totaled 83,427446.


"Source: ADB calculations using data from Roser et al. (2020); and United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. International Migrant Stock: The 2019 Revision. https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimates19.asp  (accessed May 2020)."

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