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*In the 2006 census, around 359,540 foreign nationals were resident in Libya out of a population of over 5.5 million (6.35% of the population). Almost half of these were '''Egyptians, followed by Sudanese and Palestinian immigrants'''. | *In the 2006 census, around 359,540 foreign nationals were resident in Libya out of a population of over 5.5 million (6.35% of the population). Almost half of these were '''Egyptians, followed by Sudanese and Palestinian immigrants'''. | ||
*If consular records prior to the revolution are used to estimate the immigrant population, as many as 2 million '''Egyptian migrants''' were recorded by the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli in 2009, followed by 87,200 '''Tunisians''', and 68,200 '''Moroccans''' by their respective embassies. | *If consular records prior to the revolution are used to estimate the immigrant population, as many as 2 million '''Egyptian migrants''' were recorded by the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli in 2009, followed by 87,200 '''Tunisians''', and 68,200 '''Moroccans''' by their respective embassies. | ||
*The number of Asian migrants before the revolution were just over 100,000 '''(60,000 Bangladeshis, 20,000 Filipinos, 18,000 Indians, 10,000 Pakistanis, as well as Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai and other workers)'''.<ref>"Libya", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya, accessed August 2021.</ref> | *The number of Asian migrants before the revolution were just over 100,000 '''(60,000 Bangladeshis, 20,000 Filipinos, 18,000 Indians, 10,000 Pakistanis, as well as Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai and other workers)'''.<ref name="lib">"Libya", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya, accessed August 2021.</ref> | ||
==Emigration From Libya== | ==Emigration From Libya== | ||