compatriots.net finds 14,729,273 people from abroad holding company roles, research posts or other documented positions in United States, from 244 countries of origin; 357,821 of them are recorded by an official register.
The largest groups come from India, United Kingdom, Canada.
| Country of origin | People |
|---|---|
| India | 2,704,034 |
| United Kingdom | 2,046,894 |
| Canada | 1,051,185 |
| France | 611,090 |
| China | 590,726 |
| Brazil | 552,068 |
| Australia | 529,869 |
| Mexico | 420,744 |
| Philippines | 385,189 |
| Germany | 332,743 |
| Spain | 323,407 |
| Italy | 319,665 |
| Netherlands | 316,535 |
| Türkiye | 190,530 |
| Russian Federation | 189,883 |
| Poland | 186,719 |
| Ireland | 184,684 |
| South Africa | 181,079 |
| Pakistan | 173,572 |
| Argentina | 171,234 |
| Colombia | 150,430 |
| Egypt | 138,292 |
| Israel | 137,936 |
| Belgium | 137,763 |
| Singapore | 124,354 |
| Sweden | 118,206 |
| Romania | 115,791 |
| Japan | 111,946 |
| Ukraine | 107,113 |
| Indonesia | 106,980 |
| New Zealand | 105,018 |
| Nigeria | 104,458 |
| Chile | 99,860 |
| South Korea | 99,754 |
| Taiwan | 99,731 |
| Switzerland | 92,005 |
| Malaysia | 90,720 |
| Denmark | 90,328 |
| Venezuela | 88,924 |
| Puerto Rico | 80,438 |
| Other | 1,816,137 |
| Industry (ISIC section) | People |
|---|---|
| Other services | 16,267 |
| Health and social work | 11,650 |
| Education | 10,019 |
| Arts and recreation | 9,520 |
| Professional and scientific | 4,528 |
| Finance and insurance | 3,737 |
| Wholesale and retail trade | 3,178 |
| Administrative and support | 3,159 |
| Information and communication | 2,588 |
| Manufacturing | 2,221 |
| Real estate | 1,667 |
| Public administration | 1,288 |
| Other | 3,274 |
Where the names in United States's company register come from, estimated by a name-origin model and adjusted to United States's own mix. These are expected counts, not people with a documented move, and no individual is labelled by them.
| Name origin | Expected people |
|---|---|
| Canada | 140,000 |
| United Kingdom | 78,000 |
| Australia | 77,000 |
| Philippines | 65,000 |
| China | 53,000 |
| Cuba | 52,000 |
| Israel | 50,000 |
| Germany | 48,000 |
| France | 42,000 |
| Poland | 41,000 |
| Japan | 40,000 |
| Haiti | 37,000 |
| Other | 880,000 |
Based on 1,920,666 names whose origin the model can place; 35,756,434 names common to many countries are counted but not assigned. How this is estimated.
Read with care. In United States, about 83% of the estimated name origins point to other countries. Where a population was built by immigration, much of that is simply what its names' ancestry is: it is not a count of migrants. The estimate is also adjusted toward the nationalities United States's register records, and registers that record nationality mainly for foreigners pull it further abroad.
Abroad, 7,188,155 people from United States are documented in 245 other countries.
| Host country | People |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2,168,383 |
| Canada | 853,827 |
| Germany | 538,999 |
| France | 511,096 |
| Switzerland | 434,758 |
| Netherlands | 409,386 |
| Australia | 397,907 |
| Spain | 329,796 |
| India | 285,474 |
| Ireland | 245,339 |
| Italy | 160,876 |
| Japan | 157,272 |
| Sweden | 155,312 |
| China | 137,035 |
| Belgium | 113,028 |
| Denmark | 99,063 |
| South Africa | 91,608 |
| Brazil | 88,288 |
| Singapore | 83,598 |
| Finland | 76,199 |
| United Arab Emirates | 75,869 |
| Hong Kong | 68,979 |
| New Zealand | 61,557 |
| Israel | 61,273 |
| Mexico | 57,167 |
| Norway | 55,587 |
| Saudi Arabia | 49,590 |
| Austria | 45,366 |
| Philippines | 35,243 |
| Taiwan | 33,268 |
| South Korea | 32,923 |
| Pakistan | 32,045 |
| Türkiye | 27,800 |
| Bermuda | 27,606 |
| Hungary | 26,884 |
| Argentina | 26,432 |
| Thailand | 26,224 |
| Colombia | 24,985 |
| Poland | 24,803 |
| Russian Federation | 24,440 |
| Other | 590,703 |
United States's company register lists 88,167,782 officer rows, 17,006 with a stated nationality (self-stamp rate 0.62; above 0.98 the field is ignored as it only repeats the register's own country).
Some company details from this register are incomplete in the current build; the people counts are not affected.
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 United States. 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 |
|---|---|
| Canada † | 9,800 |
| Switzerland | 1,300 |
| Belgium | 1,200 |
| New Zealand † | 1,000 |
| South Africa | 1,000 |
| Spain † | 920 |
| Austria | 390 |
| Colombia | 340 |
| China | 270 |
| Hungary | 200 |
| Ireland | 150 |
| Mauritius | 140 |
| Peru | 140 |
| Israel | 100 |
| Bermuda † | 80 |
| Tanzania | 70 |
| Chile | 70 |
| Croatia | 70 |
| Nigeria | 50 |
| Iceland | 40 |
| Honduras | 30 |
| Japan | 30 |
| Greece | 30 |
| Vietnam | 20 |
| Cambodia | 20 |
| Ukraine | 20 |
| Georgia | 10 |
| Indonesia | 10 |
| Isle of Man † | 10 |
| Samoa † | 10 |
| Panama † | 10 |
| Jordan † | 9 |
| Albania | 9 |
| Malaysia | 8 |
| Montenegro | 7 |
| Kuwait | 6 |
| Ghana | 5 |
| Other | 9 |
Registers where the estimate fails, or cannot take, a check against recorded nationality are left out, among them United Kingdom, France, Brazil, Australia, Germany, Netherlands. † marks a host where most names point abroad; read its figure as ancestry, not migration. How this is estimated.
Aggregate statistics from official company registers, ORCID, VIAF and Wikidata, compiled by compatriots.net · data build v3_20261103. No individual is named on this page. See methodology & privacy.
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