The Lebanese
emigrants in the world ***
|
Location
|
|
1986 |
|
|
|
|
North
America |
|
|
|
Canada |
|
270,000 |
|
United
states |
|
2,300,000 |
|
|
Latin
America |
|
|
|
Argentina
|
|
1,200,000 |
|
Belize
|
|
1,866 |
|
Bolivi a |
|
12,870
|
|
Brazil
|
|
5,800,000
|
|
British
Honduras |
|
------------ |
|
Caribbean
Islands |
|
510,754 |
|
Chile
|
|
27,000 |
|
Colombia
|
|
125,000 |
|
Costa Rica
|
|
30,173 |
|
Cuba
|
|
20,000 |
|
Ecuador |
|
97,500 |
|
El Salvador
|
|
27,465 |
|
Guatemala
|
|
25,570 |
|
Guadeloupe
|
|
------------ |
|
Haiti |
|
12,000 |
|
Honduras |
|
20,000 |
|
Mexico |
|
240,060 |
|
Nicaragua |
|
5,924 |
|
Panama
|
|
15,787 |
|
Paraguay |
|
15,489 |
|
Peru
|
|
2,385 |
|
Uruguay |
|
52,077 |
|
Venezuela
|
|
340,507 |
|
|
Arab world
|
|
|
|
Algeria |
|
---------- |
|
Bahrain
|
|
---------- |
|
Egypt
|
|
7,000 |
|
Iraq
|
|
1,500 |
|
Jordan |
|
1,000 |
|
Kuwait |
|
40,509 |
|
Libya
|
|
1,855 |
|
Morocco |
|
---------- |
|
Oman
|
|
---------- |
|
Palestine
(Pre-Israel) |
|
---------- |
|
Qatar
|
|
---------- |
|
Saudi Arabia
|
|
120,570 |
|
Sudan
|
|
---------- |
|
Syria
|
|
---------- |
|
Tunisia |
|
---------- |
|
United Arab
Emirates |
|
---------- |
|
Arab Gulf
|
|
103,510 |
|
North Africa
|
|
5,000 |
|
|
Non-Arab
Asia |
|
|
|
Cyprus
|
|
25,755 |
|
India and
Pakistan |
|
--------- |
|
Iran
|
|
115 |
|
Philippines
|
|
2,487 |
|
|
Non-Arab
Africa |
|
|
|
Cameroon
|
|
--------- |
|
Canary
Islands |
|
--------- |
|
Dahomey |
|
--------- |
|
Ethiopia
|
|
--------- |
|
Gambia |
|
4,000 |
|
Ghana |
|
5,970 |
|
Guinea |
|
----------- |
|
Kenya
|
|
----------- |
|
Ivory Coast
|
|
9,700 |
|
Liberia
|
|
10,790 |
|
Mali
|
|
--------- |
|
Niger
|
|
--------- |
|
Nigeria
|
|
10,060 |
|
Portuguese
Guinea |
|
2,000 |
|
Senegal |
|
15,730 |
|
Sierra Leone
|
|
10,645 |
|
South Africa
|
|
--------- |
|
Tanzania
|
|
--------- |
|
Togo
|
|
--------- |
|
Upper Volta
|
|
1,080 |
|
|
Nine listed
countries |
|
|
|
With under
500 each |
|
1,835 |
|
Other
unlisted |
|
1,000 |
|
|
Europe
|
|
|
|
Australia
|
|
---------- |
|
Belgium
|
|
15,500 |
|
Czechoslovakia |
|
--------- |
|
France
|
|
52,509 |
|
Great
Britain |
|
8,352 |
|
Greece |
|
27,455 |
|
Italy
|
|
1,300 |
|
Monaco |
|
----------
|
|
Portugal |
|
----------
|
|
Spain
|
|
11,820 |
|
Switzerland
|
|
3,845 |
|
West Germany |
|
2,351 |
|
Scandinavia
|
|
108,220 |
|
Other
unlisted |
|
1,350 |
|
|
Oceania |
|
|
|
Australia
|
|
390,000 |
|
New Zealand
|
|
45,300 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
13,307,905 |
*** The figures
for Lebanese emigration include emigrants and their descendants. Both sets
of figures were issued by the Lebanese World Cultural Union . The figures
for 1977 are cited in McKay ( 1980,p.16 ) and those for 1986 are from al-Minbar
(5,p.21). |
