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Arab diaspora
الشتات العربي

Total population
50,000,000
Regions with significant populations
Brazil	10,000,000–12,000,000
France	5,500,000–7,000,000
Turkey	5,000,000
United States	3,700,000
Argentina	3,500,000
Colombia	3,200,000
Israel	1,890,000
Chad	1,800,000
Iran	1,600,000–4,000,000
Venezuela	1,600,000
Germany	1,401,950
Spain	1,350,000
Mexico	1,100,000
Chile	800,000
Canada	750,925
Italy	705,968
Sweden	543,350
United Kingdom	500,000
Australia	500,000
Netherlands	480,000–613,800
India	300,000
Ivory Coast	300,000
Honduras	280,000
Guatemala	200,000
Ecuador	170,000
Niger	150,000 (2006)
Denmark	121,000
Indonesia	118,866 (2010)
El Salvador	100,000
Eritrea	80,000 (2010)
Uruguay	75,000
Tanzania	70,000
Kenya	59,021 (2019)
Somalia	30,000
Belize	10,000
Languages
Arabic (mother tongue), French, Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Malay, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, German, Turkish, Persian, and other languages among others
Religion
Predominantly Islam in Europe and Asia, Christianity in the Americas, but also Druze, and irreligion
Related ethnic groups
Lebanese diaspora Iraqi diaspora Egyptian diaspora Yemeni diaspora Palestinian diaspora Syrian diaspora Moroccan diaspora

Arab diaspora is a term that refers to descendants of the Arab emigrants who, voluntarily or as forcibly, migrated from their native lands to non-Arab countries, primarily in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, and West Africa.

Immigrants from Arab countries, such as Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories, also form significant diasporas in other Arab states.

Overview

Arab expatriates contribute to the circulation of financial and human capital in the region and thus significantly promote regional development. In 2009 Arab countries received a total of US$35.1 billion in remittance in-flows and remittances sent to Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon from other Arab countries are 40 to 190 per cent higher than trade revenues between these and other Arab countries. Large numbers of Arabs migrated to West Africa, particularly Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria. Since the end of the civil war in 2002, Lebanese traders have become re-established in Sierra Leone.

According to Saudi Aramco World, the largest concentration of Arabs outside the Arab World is in Brazil, which has 9 million Brazilians of Arab ancestry. Of these 9 million Arabs, 6 million are of Lebanese ancestry, making Brazil's population of Lebanese equivalent to that of Lebanon itself. However, these figures are contradicted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical information in Brazil. According to the 2010 Brazilian census conducted by IBGE, there were only 12,336 Lebanese nationals living in Brazil and other Arab nationalities were so small that they were not even listed. The Brazilian census does not ask about ancestry or family origin. There is a question about nationality and, according to the Brazilian law, any person born in Brazil is a Brazilian national by birth and right for any purpose, nationally or internationally - not an Arab. The last Brazilian census to ask about family origin was conducted in 1940. At that time, 107,074 Brazilians said they had a Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi or Arab father. Native Arabs were 46,105 and naturalized Brazilians were 5,447. In 1940, Brazil had 41,169,321 inhabitants, hence Arabs and their children were 0.38% of Brazil's population in 1940.

Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico and Chile. Palestinians cluster in Chile and Central America, particularly El Salvador, and Honduras. The Palestinian community in Chile is the fourth largest in the world after those in Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan. Arab Haitians (a large number of whom live in the capital) are more often than not, concentrated in financial areas where the majority of them establish businesses. In the United States, there are around 3.5 million people of Arab ancestry.

In the 2010 Indonesian census, 118,886 people, amounting to 0.05% of the population of Indonesia, identified themselves as being of Arab ethnicity.

There is also a small community of Yemeni Arabs in Hyderabad city of Telangana state in India who were brought from Hadhramaut region of Yemen to serve as army men during Nizam's rule. They are called the Chaush community. There is also presence of a tiny Iraqi refugees/immigrant community in India.

See also

• Arabs in the Philippines
• Algerian British
• Arab Americans
• Arab Argentines
• Arab Australians
• Arab Brazilians
• Arab Canadians
• Arab Chileans
• Arab Colombians
• Arab Haitians
• Arab Indonesians
• Arab Malaysians
• Arab Mexicans
• Arab New Zealanders
• Arab Singaporeans
• Arab Venezuelans
• Arabs in Austria
• Arabs in Bulgaria
• Arabs in Europe
• Arabs in Finland
• Arabs in France
• Arabs in Germany
• Arabs in Greece
• Arabs in India
• Arabs in Italy
• Arabs in Japan
• Arabs in the Netherlands
• Arabs in Pakistan
• Arabs in Romania
• Arabs in Serbia
• Arabs in Spain
• Arabs in Sweden
• Arabs in Switzerland
• Arabs in Turkey
• Arma people (Saharan Arab and Spanish)
• British Arabs
• British Iraqis
• Chaush (Yemenis in South India)
• Egyptians in the United Kingdom
• Emirati diaspora
• Hadhrami diaspora
• History of Arabs in Afghanistan
• Iraqi Biradari (Iraqis residing in India and Pakistan)
• Iraqi diaspora
• Lebanese Americans
• Lebanese Colombians
• Lebanese Argentines
• Lebanese Australians
• Lebanese Brazilians
• Lebanese Canadians
• Lebanese diaspora
• Lebanese people in Ecuador
• List of Arab Americans
• Magyarab people (Egyptian Arab and Hungarian)
• Palestinian diaspora
• Refugees of Iraq
• Sri Lankan Moors
• Syrian Americans
• Yemeni Americans
• Yemenis in the United Kingdom
• Central Asian Arabic

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Notes

1. Including 1–2 million native Arabs and 3,763,565 registered Syrian refugees.

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Further reading

• Niger's Arabs to fight expulsion
• Out of the Hadhramaut
• Arab Immigrants in Latin American Politics
• Descendants of Arabs thriving in S. America
• The Arrival Of The Lebanese to Jamaica
• "Arab roots grow deep in Brazil's rich melting pot", The Washington Times.

External links

• Media related to Arab diaspora at Wikimedia Commons
• International Organization for Migration - Regional Office for the Middle East Archived 8 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine
• The Lebanese of South Africa
• The Arabs of Honduras
• The Arabs of Brazil
• Lebanese Social and Cultural Community in Ireland Archived 7 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine

v t e Arab diaspora
Africa	Ghana Ivory Coast Kenya Senegal Sierra Leone
Asia	Afghanistan Afghan Arabs India Indonesia Iran Khorasan Khuzestan Japan Malaysia Pakistan Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Turkey Caucasus
Europe	North Denmark Finland Sweden United Kingdom Southeast Bulgaria Dobruja Romania Serbia South Greece Italy Malta Spain West Austria Belgium France Beur Paris Germany Berlin Netherlands Switzerland
North America	Canada Cuba El Salvador Haiti Honduras Mexico United States Detroit
Oceania	Australia New Zealand
South America	Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador El Salvador Paraguay Uruguay Venezuela

v t e Emirati diaspora
By country	Ghana Côte d'Ivoire Pakistan United Kingdom United States
See also	Emirati passport Visa requirements for Emirati citizens

v t e Lebanese people and diaspora
Countries	Africa Egypt Syro-Lebanese Ghana Ivory Coast Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Americas Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Ecuador Haiti Jamaica Mexico Paraguay United States Detroit Uruguay Venezuela Asia Cyprus Iran Israel Jews Prisoners Kuwait Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria Turkey United Arab Emirates Europe Austria Belgium Bulgaria Denmark France Germany Greece Italy Netherlands Romania Serbia Spain Sweden United Kingdom Oceania Australia New Zealand
Personalities	Africa Egypt Ghana Liberia Nigeria Sierra Leone South Africa Americas Argentina Brazil Canada Caribbean Curaçao Dominican Republic Haiti Jamaica Puerto Rico Chile Colombia Cuba Ecuador Guatemala Mexico United States Uruguay Venezuela Western-Asia Cyprus Syria Saudi Arabia Turkey United Arab Emirates Europe Belgium Bulgaria Denmark France Germany Italy Monaco Netherlands Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Oceania Australia New Zealand

v t e Moroccan diaspora
Belgium Brazil/Peru Canada Denmark France (Paris) Germany Israel Italy Mali Netherlands Norway Spain Sweden United Kingdom United States Western Sahara

v t e Syrians and diaspora
Countries	Americas Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Haiti Mexico United States Jews Uruguay Venezuela French Guiana Middle East Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Saudi Arabia Turkey United Arab Emirates Asia China Japan Europe France Netherlands Denmark Finland Austria Germany Greece Norway Sweden United Kingdom Oceania Australia New Zealand Africa Ghana Ivory Coast Senegal

• Arab diaspora
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• North African diaspora
• West Asian diaspora