§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in descending order the estimates he has available of(a) the number of British citizens resident in each overseas country, (b) the number of such citizens registered to vote in United Kingdom elections and (c) the percentage which this is of (a), with overall totals. [40227]
§ Mr. HanleyThe estimated number of Britons resident abroad as at end December 1994 in descending order by country is below.
In 1994 18,552 overseas electors were registered to vote in United Kingdom elections, representing 0.017 per cent. of the total number of Britons resident abroad.
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Estimated number of Britons resident abroad as at end December 1994 Number Australia 3,400,000 Canada 3,000,000 265W
Estimated number of Britons resident abroad as at end December 1994 Number USA 1,448,000 South Africa 1,080,000 New Zealand 400,000 Spain 300,500 Irish Republic 200,000 Germany 152,088 Italy 91,000 France 65,901 Kenya 49,073 Netherlands 44,672 Greece 40,530 Israel 38,500 Saudi Arabia 32,500 India 30,110 Zimbabwe 30,000 Portugal 25,600 Belgium 25,000 Cyprus 20,000 Denmark 18,573 United Arab Emirates 18,500 Japan 17,000 Norway 14,000 Tanzania 12,000 Sweden 10,927 Zambia 10,000 Switzerland 9,079 Brazil 9,050 Malaysia 8,600 Nigeria 8,400 Antigua and Barbuda 7,676 Barbados 7,500 Philippines 7,500 Indonesia 7,000 Singapore 7,000 Austria 6,500 Oman 6,500 Bahrain 6,331 Bahamas 6,000 Botswana 6,000 Brunei 6,000 Chile 6,000 Swaziland 6,000 Argentina 5,800 Thailand 5,600 Malawi 5,500 Jerusalem 5,000 Poland 5,000 Trinidad and Tobago 5,000 Turkey 4,200 Egypt 4,000 Kuwait 4,000 Libya 4,000 Luxembourg 4,000 Malta 4,000 Mexico 4,000 Jamaica 3,600 Qatar 3,500 Lebanon 3,482 China 2,850 Colombia 2,500 Czech Republic 2,500 Romania 2,500 Russian Federation 2,500 Hungary 2,300 Ivory Coast 2,000 Venezuela 2,000 Peru 1,962 Ghana 1,700 Uganda 1,700 Finland 1,600
Estimated number of Britons resident abroad as at end December 1994 Number Pakistan 1,600 Mauritius 1,500 Papua New Guinea 1,500 Sri Lanka 1,500 Sierra Leone 1,350 Cuba 1,275 Jordan 1,200 Namibia 1,200 Uruguay 1,100 Morocco 1,054 Belize 1,000 Costa Rica 1,000 Grenada 1,000 Korea 1,000 Mozambique 1,000 Nepal 850 Yugoslavia 814 Ecuador 800 Guyana 800 Iceland 800 Ukraine 800 Vietnam 700 Zaire 700 Croatia 694 Seychelles 650 Bolivia 600 St. Lucia 600 Syria 600 Fiji 550 Gambia 550 Lesotho 550 Bangladesh 540 Sudan 500 Ethiopia 450 Tunisia 450 Yemen 425 Angola 400 Iran 400 Guatemala 390 Cambodia 338 Panama 334 Honduras 250 Algeria 247 Solomon Islands 230 Senegal 206 Cameroon 200 Madagascar 200 Paraguay 200 Slovakia 200 Slovenia 200 Vanuatu 200 Nicaragua 177 El Salvador 172 Bulgaria 150 Kazakhstan 150 Burma 123 Albania 120 Estonia 75 Lithuania 75 Tonga 74 Mongolia 70 Uzbekistan 56 Azerbaijan 50 Latvia 40 Macedonia 40 Belarus 30 Total 10,829,503