Country profile · Libya
compatriots.net finds 4,093 people from abroad holding company roles, research posts or other documented positions in Libya, from 130 countries of origin; 78 of them are recorded by an official register.
The largest groups come from United Kingdom, Egypt, United States.
| Country of origin | People |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 571 |
| Egypt | 438 |
| United States | 430 |
| India | 314 |
| Iran | 233 |
| Türkiye | 230 |
| Philippines | 228 |
| Canada | 151 |
| Lebanon | 125 |
| France | 111 |
| Italy | 102 |
| Iraq | 100 |
| Pakistan | 97 |
| Malaysia | 96 |
| Tunisia | 72 |
| Germany | 69 |
| Jordan | 68 |
| Romania | 65 |
| Syria | 48 |
| Malta | 46 |
| Algeria | 39 |
| Serbia | 38 |
| Poland | 38 |
| Australia | 36 |
| Sudan | 30 |
| Spain | 28 |
| Indonesia | 27 |
| Venezuela | 24 |
| United Arab Emirates | 24 |
| Saudi Arabia | 22 |
| Ethiopia | 21 |
| South Africa | 20 |
| Palestine, State of | 19 |
| Afghanistan | 19 |
| Ireland | 18 |
| China | 17 |
| Morocco | 17 |
| Sweden | 16 |
| Ukraine | 16 |
| Russian Federation | 15 |
| Other | 380 |
Industry comes from company registers and is not available here.
Abroad, 12,479 people from Libya are documented in 134 other countries.
| Host country | People |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4,692 |
| United States | 2,432 |
| Malta | 2,186 |
| United Arab Emirates | 511 |
| Canada | 481 |
| France | 420 |
| Italy | 386 |
| Spain | 357 |
| Lebanon | 315 |
| Germany | 303 |
| Switzerland | 241 |
| Bahrain | 218 |
| Saudi Arabia | 211 |
| Egypt | 208 |
| Türkiye | 206 |
| Netherlands | 196 |
| Australia | 187 |
| China | 181 |
| Bulgaria | 177 |
| Qatar | 125 |
| Malaysia | 119 |
| Ireland | 114 |
| India | 101 |
| Sweden | 93 |
| Slovakia | 88 |
| Denmark | 82 |
| Czechia | 81 |
| Jordan | 79 |
| Belgium | 75 |
| South Africa | 68 |
| Finland | 63 |
| Poland | 58 |
| Pakistan | 56 |
| Kuwait | 55 |
| Tunisia | 50 |
| Brazil | 48 |
| Virgin Islands, British | 47 |
| Austria | 47 |
| Norway | 44 |
| Greece | 40 |
| Other | 732 |
There is no company register for Libya in the current build. Arrivals here come from dated study-then-work moves and from research and reference records (ORCID, VIAF, Wikidata), so company roles are undercounted.
Counts are people with a documented cross-border move: an official register's nationality or birthplace, ORCID/VIAF/Wikidata records, or a dated study-then-work transition. Name-based estimates and heritage (ancestral) readings are not included in these counts. Groups under 5 people are folded into "Other".
How many company officers abroad carry names that a name-origin model places in Libya. This includes people whose families left generations ago, which the documented counts above cannot see. These are expected counts, not people, and no individual is labelled by them.
| Host country | Expected people |
|---|---|
| United States † | 1,400 |
| Canada † | 340 |
| Spain † | 100 |
| South Africa | 70 |
| Switzerland | 60 |
| Mauritius | 20 |
| Montenegro | 10 |
| Austria | 10 |
| Hungary | 8 |
| Tanzania | 6 |
| Jordan † | 6 |
| Greece | 5 |
| Belgium | 5 |
| Ireland | 5 |
| Other | 20 |
Registers where the estimate fails, or cannot take, a check against recorded nationality are left out, among them United Kingdom, Malta, France, Germany, Cyprus, Slovakia. † marks a host where most names point abroad; read its figure as ancestry, not migration. How this is estimated.