Overseas Filipinos

This article is about the Filipino diaspora in general. For Filipino migrant workers, see Overseas Filipino Worker.

Overseas Filipinos
Mga Pilipino sa Ibayong-dagat
Map of the Filipino diaspora in the world
Total population
15 million (2019)[1][2]
figures below are for various years, per individual supporting sources cited.
Regions with significant populations
 United States4,640,313 (2023) (Filipino ancestry and immigrants)[3]
 Canada957,355 (2021)[4]
 Saudi Arabia725,893 (2022) [5]
 United Arab Emirates919,819 (2013)[6]
 Japan332,293 (2024)[7]
 Australia408,836 (2021)[8]
 Kuwait276,000 (2018)[9]
 Malaysia245,000 (2009)[10]
 Qatar240,000 (2017)[11]
 Singapore203,243 (2013)[12]
 France150,000-200,000 (2020)[13][14]
 Spain200,000 (2018)[15]
 United Kingdom164,000 (2021 UK census)[16]
 Hong Kong186,869 (2016)[17]
 Italy158,926 (2023 Italian census)[18]
 Jordan40,538 (2020)[19]
 Lebanon33,424 (2020)[19]

An overseas Filipino (Filipino: Pilipino sa ibayong-dagat) is a person of full or partial Filipino origin who trace their ancestry back to the Philippines but are living and working outside of the country. They get jobs in countries, and they move to live in countries that they get jobs in, or if they want to migrate to somewhere else, This term generally applies to both people of Filipino ancestry and citizens abroad. As of 2019, there were over 15 million Filipinos overseas.[2]

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  2. ^ a b "Remittances from Filipinos abroad reach 2.9 bln USD in August 2019 - Xinhua | English.news.cn". www.xinhuanet.com. Archived from the original on October 15, 2019.
  3. ^ "American Community Survey 2023".
  4. ^ "Census Profile, 2021 Census - Canada [Country] and Canada [Country]" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Saudi Arabia 2022 Census" (PDF). General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 28, 2024. Retrieved April 28, 2024.
  6. ^ "Know Your Diaspora: United Arab Emirates". Positively Filipino | Online Magazine for Filipinos in the Diaspora. July 17, 2013.
  7. ^ 令和６年６月末現在における在留外国人数について
  8. ^ "Australia General Community Profile". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  9. ^ Michaelson, Ruth (July 23, 2018). "Kuwaiti star faces backlash over Filipino worker comments". The Guardian. United Kingdom. Retrieved February 12, 2019. The Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, asked the estimated 276,000 Filipino workers in Kuwait to return home, appealing to "their sense of patriotism" and offering free flights for the 10,000 estimated to have overstayed their visas.
  10. ^ "No foreign workers' layoffs in Malaysia - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos". February 9, 2009.
  11. ^ Rivera, Raynald C (October 17, 2017). "Contribution of over 240,000 Filipinos in Qatar praised". The Peninsula. Qatar. Retrieved February 12, 2019. Timbayan underlined the important contribution of more than 240,000 Filipinos in Qatar engaged in various sectors, being the fourth largest expatriate community in Qatar.
  12. ^ "Stock Estimate of Filipinos Overseas As of December 2013" (PDF). Philippine Overseas Employment Administration. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 23, 2019.
  13. ^ "Filipinos in France". September 22, 2020. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  14. ^ "Les nouveaux Misérables: the lives of Filipina workers in the playground of the rich". theguardian.com. October 12, 2020. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  15. ^ Masigan, Andrew J. (June 24, 2018). "Economic diplomacy is as important as OFW diplomacy". BusinessWorld. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
  16. ^ Gostoli, Ylenia. "Coronavirus: Filipino front-line workers pay ultimate price in UK". www.aljazeera.com.
  17. ^ A122: Population by Nationality, Year and Duration of Residence in Hong Kong Hong Kong Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
  18. ^ "Cittadini filippini in Italia la 2022". April 23, 2023.
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