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European CommissionOccasional Paper 60, Volume ITable 5.1. Stock of emigrants from AMCs, last available yearsCountry oforiginYearEuropeanCountriesCountry of residenceArabCountriesOtherCountriesTotalAlgeria 1995 991,796 66,398 14,052 1,072,246Egypt 2000 436,000 1,912,729 388,000 2,736,729Jordan 2004 n.a.. n.a. n.a. 29,397Lebanon 2001 157,030 123,966 325,604 606,600Morocco 2005 2,718,711 213,034 253,641 3,185,386Palestine 2002 295,075 4,180,673 231,723 4,707,471Syria - - - - -Tunisia 2005 779,200 128,900 25,800 3,520,000Notes: Syria does not provide statistics for its nationals abroad; “Europe” to read in the case of Palestiniansabroad as “all countries except the Arab countries and the US”.Source: CARIM (2007)Figure 5.1 builds on the previous table, and gives the share of migrants over resident population;though the incidence of emigration out of the Palestinian Territories is unmatched by any otherAMCs. This is high even in other countries such as Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia, where it isclose to 10 percent of the resident population.Figure 5.1. Share of emigrants from AMCs, last available yearsSource: Fargues (2005)124