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Countries with American Expatriates

Name the countries with the greatest number of U.S expatriates.
Includes permanent and temporary residents according to Wikipedia. Numbers are broad estimates
Includes military troops
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Last updated: August 13, 2017
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First submittedAugust 20, 2015
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Country
870,000
Mexico
660,000
Canada
410,000
Philippines
320,000
Germany
200,000
Israel
170,000
United Kingdom
140,000
South Korea
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Country
130,000
China
130,000
Costa Rica
100,000
France
70,000
Brazil
60,000
Colombia
60,000
India
56,000
Australia
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Level 90
Aug 20, 2015
Oooooh, I love the new progress bar and points metric at the end of the quiz. Snazzy!
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Level 69
Aug 22, 2015
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Level 40
Dec 11, 2017
i like the relatively new like feature
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Level 66
Mar 30, 2022
Here's a snapshot in time
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Level 40
Apr 15, 2022
Truly
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Level 81
Apr 4, 2023
Innit?
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Level 80
Aug 20, 2015
Really nice updates. Start button gives you time to read through the "rules" of the quiz without burning time, and the notification of # of points, both on the quiz and overall lets you know how you did (assuming a less than perfect score) without having to go find the Quiz again in the Stats. Great Job!!!!
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Level 76
Aug 23, 2015
Here's the same quiz for Russian and Chinese expatriates.
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Level 65
Sep 17, 2015
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Level 82
Oct 31, 2015
Here's one for Filipinos
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Level 71
Sep 17, 2015
I would think that many of these people originate from these countries and have managed to get some sort of regular payment from USA and now prefer to live back "Home'.
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Level 89
Jun 25, 2018
Yeah, not a lot of people heading to Colombia to stay without a reason.
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Level 70
Jul 13, 2016
Missed only Costa Rica.
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Level 69
Aug 17, 2016
Do the almost a million expatriates in Mexico stay there when Trump builds the wall?
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Level 38
Sep 21, 2019
They're not illegals so I would say yes.
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Level 85
Dec 14, 2021
Apparently, a fair number of them ARE illegals but the Mexican government's attitude is "Meh, they're not bothering anyone. We'll deal with the paperwork when we get to it."
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Level 68
Sep 6, 2016
Wow, surprised South Korea is higher than China!
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Level 60
Nov 18, 2016
South Korea has much closer historic links with the USA than China does.
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Level 82
Aug 13, 2017
Subtracting 28,500 troops, SK is lower
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Level 85
Dec 9, 2017
Troops stationed are different than expats. They don't count.
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Level 35
Dec 11, 2017
The quiz includes military troops.
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Level 67
Dec 9, 2017
Lots of soldiers there. But am very surprised Japan didn't make the list.
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Level 69
Feb 7, 2017
How could I miss Israel? Great quiz!
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Level ∞
Aug 13, 2017
For the latest update, I reduced the number of countries from 20 to 14. The Wikipedia article has incomplete data, so I'm a little less confident of its accuracy below the top few countries.
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Level 80
Aug 14, 2017
Mexico needs to build a wall.
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Level 37
Aug 14, 2017
Tell me about it. Then our leader can get his "good old boys" to wait on his customers/tenants at all of this properties.
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Level 56
Dec 9, 2017
The Great Wall of Mexico is already in the works. Just like the Great Wall of China, it'll protect Mexico from northern invaders.
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Level 35
Dec 9, 2017
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Level 38
Sep 21, 2019
Americans aren't coming illegally.
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Level 85
Dec 14, 2021
Many of them are.
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Level 22
Nov 5, 2017
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/262199/17-countries-where-expats-live-the-happiest-lives
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Level 71
Dec 9, 2017
It would be interesting to know how many of the 870,000 USA expatriates living in Mexico are Mexican born.
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Level 82
Dec 9, 2017
Or American born with Mexican parents
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Level 37
Dec 9, 2017
An expatriate is someone who has left the country of his birth to live in another.
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Level 82
Dec 9, 2017
Close. Wikipedia: "An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of their citizenship."

So an American expat in Mexico could be, as I said, born in the USA to Mexican parents, meaning that they have US citizenship but then emigrated to the country of their parents' birth. They could also be what Malbaby said, assuming that they were born in Mexico, emigrated to the USA, were naturalized there to gain citizenship, and then returned to Mexico. Which happens. Though I think what I said is more common and more likely.

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Level 30
Dec 9, 2017
According to Wikipedia, there are close to 100,000 military personnel alone in Japan. That alone should put it on the list
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Level 30
Dec 9, 2017
Sorry, personnel plus family members
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Level 37
Dec 10, 2017
Why go with a simple answer when a convoluted one will do.
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Level 82
Dec 12, 2017
Why make a relevant comment that people might gain something from reading when you could passive aggressively snipe at someone you have a silly gripe with by implying something that's not even accurate?

Also, why use a question mark at the end of an interrogative sentence when you could save pixels and use a period.

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Level 37
Apr 7, 2019
Kalbahamut: Quit being so defensive; not every comment I make is directed at you.
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Level 82
May 17, 2019
you admitted in the comments section of another quiz that you were going to make it your mission on this site to follow me around and pester me on every quiz that you could as often as you could until some of your harrassment got through moderation. Why don't you tell us who else you were directing the above comment at, then? (lie) There are no plausible alternatives.
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Level 62
Dec 20, 2019
I guess he didn’t want to waste pixels.
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Level 69
Dec 15, 2017
Here's an interesting question: Does the data you used take dual citizenship into account? (It seems like it could definitely skew the data in a country like Canada, where there are a ton of dual citizens.) To wit: if the data is just counting American citizens abroad, it would count me as an expat in Canada if I was living there. But if I had dual citizenship, I'd really just be hanging out in the country of my citizenship, i.e., I'm not actually an Ametican "expat". (I assume though, that it *does* take into account U.S. citizenship renunciation.)
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Level 74
Sep 14, 2018
I expected Panama to be here.
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Level 52
Dec 2, 2018
Mexican Trump: When America sends its people...

Couldn't help it. I'm sorry.

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Level 82
Nov 1, 2020
I wish that's how immigration actually worked. I can think of several people that America would do well to send somewhere else, who commit more crimes (including those that Mexicans were accused of) and steal more resources from the government than any Mexican ever has. One of them is orange. If only we could find some other country that was willing to take him.
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Level 56
Nov 4, 2021
How about North Korea? I'm sure he'd fit in well there.
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Level 41
Jul 2, 2019
Always forget the Phillipines.
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Level 49
Apr 21, 2020
Saudi Arabia has 80,000, so it should be in the list

US Ambassador to Saudi said that recently regarding coronavirus outbreak:

https://twitter.com/CICSaudi/status/1246126656663756800

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Level 47
Sep 21, 2020
*Emigrants
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Level 28
May 18, 2021
Remember, you're an im/emigrant if you're a person of colour and an expat if you're white...

(For clarity, I don't agree with this distinction, but that's how it's mostly postulated)

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Level 85
Dec 14, 2021
When my great grandmother (white) came over from Ireland, she was an immigrant. When James Baldwin (black) went to live in France, he was an expat.

The issue isn't color, it's class and status. Who has money and who needs a job? Does the country where you settle view your journey as a favor to them or a favor to you?

This is still a type of bigotry, of course. It just doesn't happen to be racially based.

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Level 74
Jun 9, 2022
No, you're an immigrant if it is a permanent move, an expat is usually someone who is working overseas temporarily - may also include retirees who maintain their citizenship for whatever reason
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Level 28
May 18, 2021
I have never heard that there were so many Americans living in the Philippines! Are they mostly people of Filipino ancestry?
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Level 92
Aug 16, 2021
The US held the Philippines essentially as an occupying nation from the late 1800's until 1946 when we finally recognized them as a sovereign nation.

After that, the US continued to house multiple military bases in the Philippines up to the present day.

There have been a lot of US servicemen over the last 100 years that spent many years there and decided to retire there.

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Level 71
Jul 8, 2023
I think the figure for American expats in Israel may be skewed. That number must include people with dual citizenship, in which case, they are not expats as they live here in Israel permanently as Israelis.