Table 1.
Migration trends in five ASEAN countries
| Parameter | Description | Indonesia | Malaysia | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Sources of data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General trend | Depends on the percentage out- or in-migration of total population | Sending | Receiving | Sending | Receiving | Receiving | |
| Out-migration | Stock estimate of citizens overseas (most recent update available) Includes permanent, temporary, and irregular migrants; tourists not included |
2,992,550–6,000,000 in 2013 | Estimated at 1 million in 2010 | 10,489,628 as of December 2012 in 218 countries and territories | 192,300 in 2011 | 1,006,051 as of beginning of 2010 | Indonesia: (32) Malaysia: World Bank. Malaysia Economic Monitor: Brain Drain. Kuala Lumpur: World Bank Malaysia; April 2011. Available from: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2011/05/02/000356161_20110502023920/Rendered/PDF/614830WP0malay10Box358348B01PUBLIC1.pdf [cited 10 May 2014] Philippines: Commission on Filipinos Overseas. Stock Estimate of Overseas Filipinos (as of December 2012). Manila: CFO; 2012. Available from: http://www.cfo.gov.ph/images/stories/pdf/StockEstimate2012.pdf [cited 10 May 2014] Singapore: National Population and Talent Division of the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore Department of Statistics, Ministry of Home Affairs, and Immigration & Checkpoints Authority. Population in Brief 2011. Singapore: September 2011 Thailand: Huguet JW, Chamratrithirong A. Thailand Migration Report 2011 – Migration for development in Thailand: Overview and tools for policymakers. Bangkok: IOM Thailand; 2011 |
| As a percentage of total population | 1.24–2.49 | 3.54 | 11.23 | 3.79 | 1.52 | Total population data (2010 estimates) from the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2012). World population prospects: the 2012 revision. Available from: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Excel-Data/population.htm [cited 24 June 2014] | |
| Outward labor migration | Number of deployed workers or skilled migrants overseas in a given year (most recent estimate) | 512,168 deployed in 2013 | Approximately 330,000 skilled migrants in 2010 | 1,802,031 deployed in 2012 | No information | 147,623 deployed in 2011 | Indonesia: National Agency for the Protection and Placement of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI). Available from: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9zVxTquSWwdQnUwVFlreHI0Y0NaT29JSDBFVnpOS3l1ZkJZ/edit
Malaysia: World Bank. Malaysia Economic Monitor: Brain Drain. Kuala Lumpur: World Bank Malaysia; April 2011. Available from: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2011/05/02/000356161_20110502023920/Rendered/PDF/614830WP0malay10Box358348B01PUBLIC1.pdf [cited 10 May 2014] Philippines: (44) |
| Thailand: Ministry of Labor, Department of Employment, (2011) as cited in (45) | |||||||
| In-migration | International migrant stock at mid-year, 2013 Includes migrant workers, undocumented migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, students, and other groups of foreign nationals residing in the country (B) Foreign-born (C) Foreign citizens (R) includes refugees |
295,433 (C,R) | 2,469,173 (B,R) | 213,150 in 2013 (C,R) | 2,323,252 (B) | 3,721,735 (B,R) | (42) |