Arab expatriates contribute to the circulation of financial and human capital in the region and thus significantly promote regional development. In 2009 Arab countries received a total of US$35.1 billion in
remittance in-flows and remittances sent to
Jordan,
Egypt and
Lebanon from other Arab countries are 40 to 190 per cent higher than trade revenues between these and other Arab countries. Large numbers of Arabs migrated to
West Africa, particularly
Côte d'Ivoire,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
Liberia, and
Nigeria. Since the end of the civil war in 2002,
Lebanese traders have become re-established in Sierra Leone. According to
Saudi Aramco World, the largest concentration of Arabs outside the
Arab World is in
Brazil, which has 9 million
Brazilians of Arab ancestry. Of these 9 million Arabs, 6 million are of
Lebanese ancestry, making Brazil's population of Lebanese equivalent to that of
Lebanon itself. However, these figures are contradicted by the
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical information in Brazil. According to the 2010 Brazilian census conducted by IBGE, there were only 12,336 Lebanese nationals living in Brazil and other Arab nationalities were so small that they were not even listed. The Brazilian census does not ask about ancestry or family origin. There is a question about
nationality and, according to the Brazilian law, any person born in Brazil is a Brazilian national by birth and right for any purpose, nationally or internationally — not an Arab. The last Brazilian census to ask about family origin was conducted in 1940. At that time, 107,074 Brazilians said they had a Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi or Arab father. Native Arabs were 46,105 and naturalized Brazilians were 5,447. In 1940, Brazil had 41,169,321 inhabitants, hence Arabs and their children were 0.38% of Brazil's population in 1940.
Colombia,
Argentina,
Venezuela,
Mexico and
Chile.
Palestinians cluster in
Chile and
Central America, particularly
El Salvador, and
Honduras. The
Palestinian community in Chile is the fourth largest in the world after those in Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan.
Arab Haitians (a large number of whom live in the capital) are more often than not, concentrated in financial areas where the majority of them establish businesses. In the
United States, there are around 3.5 million people of Arab ancestry. In the 2010 Indonesian census, 118,886 people, amounting to 0.05% of the population of
Indonesia, identified themselves as being of Arab ethnicity. There is also a small community of Yemeni Arabs in
Hyderabad city of
Telangana state in India who were brought from
Hadhramaut region of Yemen to serve as army men during Nizam's rule. They are called the
Chaush community. There is also presence of a tiny Iraqi refugee/immigrant community in India. == See also ==