Least Developed Countries, United Nations Classification Population (millions, 2009) Population growth (avg. annual %, 2000–09) Population density (people per km2, 2008) Labor force (millions, 2008) Unemployment rate (% of labor force, 2008) Urban population (% of pop., 2009) Surface area (1,000 km2, 2008) GNI (US$ billions, 2009) GNI per capita, Atlas method (US$, 2009) GDP growth (avg. annual %, 2005–09) Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty line (% of pop., 2005) Age dependency ratio (2009)
837.1 2.3 40.4 346.7 — 29.0 20,803 528 639 6.8 — 78.7
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Stock of emigrants: 27.5 million or 3.2 percent of population Top 10 emigration countries: Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, the Republic of Yemen, Mali, Haiti, Nepal, Sudan, Eritrea Destinations: high-income OECD countries (19.2 percent); high-income non-OECD countries (9.8 percent); developing countries, of which identified low-income countries (19.3 percent) and identified middle-income countries (44.0 percent); unidentified (7.6 percent) Top 10 migration corridors: Bangladesh–India, Afghanistan–the Islamic Republic of Iran, Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire, the Republic of Yemen–Saudi Arabia, Nepal–India, Haiti–the United States, Uganda–Kenya, Eritrea–Sudan, Mozambique–South Africa, Bangladesh–Saudi Arabia
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Emigration rate of tertiary-educated population (top 10 countries): Haiti (83.6 percent), Samoa (76.4 percent), The Gambia (63.3 percent), Sierra Leone (52.5 percent), Mozambique (45.1 percent), Liberia (45.0 percent), the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (37.4 percent), Uganda (35.6 percent), Eritrea (34.0 percent), Angola (33.0 percent) Emigration of physicians: 8,792 or 10 percent of physicians trained in the group
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Stock of immigrants: 11.5 million or 1.3 percent of population (compared to 215.8 million or 3.2 percent for the world) Females as percentage of immigrants: 47.4 percent (compared to 48.4 percent for the world) Refugees as percentage of immigrants: 18.6 percent (compared to 7.6 percent for the world) Top 10 immigration countries: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, the Republic of Yemen, Rwanda, Mozambique
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