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Indians abroad tops 17 million

A United Nations report has shown the Indian diaspora is the largest in the world. (Photo by: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

By: Eastern Eye Staff

by LAUREN CODLING INDIA’S diaspora is the largest in the world, a United Nations (UN) report revealed on Monday (18). It is estimated there are 17 million Indians living abroad, with the report also showing that the umber of migrants from the south Asian country has doubled from 7.98 million in 2000. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) attracts the largest number of Indian migrants, with around 3.5 million living there. This is followed by the US, which has two million Indian migrants, up from 1.04 million, the report revealed. In the UK, an estimated 0.7 million people are Indian migrants.…

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