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Table 27. Nonimmigrant Admissions (I-94 Only) by Region and Country of Residence: Fiscal Years 2014 to 2016

By Region of Residence

Region of Residence	2014 ¹	2015	2016
Total	74,930,606	76,638,236	76,786,751
Africa	694,587	732,388	622,472
Asia	12,769,145	13,282,782	12,262,112
Europe	15,977,022	14,776,496	14,439,611
North America	32,582,044	32,569,052	28,992,683
Oceania	1,783,958	1,675,390	1,648,230
South America	6,176,047	6,351,299	4,791,069
Unknown	4,947,803	7,250,829	14,030,574

By Country of Residence

Country of Residence ²	2014 ¹	2015	2016
Total	74,930,606	76,638,236	76,786,751
Afghanistan	4,143	4,283	4,427
Albania	7,623	10,615	12,351
Algeria	10,804	11,766	10,144
American Samoa	527	938	1,613
Andorra	1,848	1,593	1,716
Angola	14,715	13,213	8,353
Anguilla	1,280	893	1,171
Antigua and Barbuda	15,994	15,773	14,392
Argentina	807,515	844,518	790,546
Armenia	7,447	8,004	8,355
Aruba	19,927	14,300	12,605
Australia	1,444,405	1,344,247	1,318,901
Austria	227,191	199,500	198,201
Azerbaijan	7,426	7,862	6,589
Bahamas	252,578	260,134	217,824
Bahrain	10,010	10,714	8,534
Bangladesh	38,314	38,807	31,758
Barbados	63,706	63,630	54,934
Belarus	14,075	15,945	16,671
Belgium	329,268	296,438	273,037
Belize	26,767	28,082	23,855
Benin	2,749	3,006	2,489
Bermuda	88,880	92,243	79,463
Bhutan	937	1,068	863
Bolivia	54,389	64,647	59,518
Bonaire	358	301	348
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8,103	8,445	7,558
Botswana	2,516	2,920	2,504
Brazil	2,462,622	2,569,484	1,556,047
Brunei	2,148	1,951	1,610
Bulgaria	37,994	39,199	33,707
Burkina Faso	4,826	5,934	5,795
Burma	6,168	7,058	7,698
Burundi	1,927	2,015	1,596
Cabo Verde	5,076	4,740	4,867
Cambodia	4,734	3,819	4,894
Cameroon	9,006	10,678	10,225
Canada³	9,305,182	8,828,585	7,913,852
Cayman Islands	53,498	46,068	40,123
Central African Republic	573	767	602
Chad	1,112	1,139	948
Chile	289,163	358,800	346,831
China, People's Republic	2,311,007	2,688,752	2,262,926
Christmas Island	42	41	52
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	56	35	42
Colombia	960,672	972,478	746,499
Comoros	237	204	186
Congo, Democratic Republic	6,440	6,668	6,404
Congo, Republic	2,181	1,992	1,548
Cook Islands	114	77	65
Costa Rica	237,759	248,299	237,744
Cote d'Ivoire	6,928	7,878	7,414
Croatia	25,523	27,792	24,163
Cuba	54,286	60,117	54,418
Curacao	6,784	6,367	6,181
Cyprus	9,945	9,748	9,211
Czechia	107,278	99,602	105,091
Denmark	332,376	322,711	317,331
Djibouti	567	536	673
Dominica	7,631	7,599	6,159
Dominican Republic	298,698	332,404	310,802
Ecuador	339,959	387,146	345,018
Egypt	86,758	89,137	77,256
El Salvador	136,963	170,913	171,978
Equatorial Guinea	1,840	1,521	1,278
Eritrea	1,868	2,391	2,560
Estonia	23,065	21,151	22,885
Ethiopia	16,304	16,745	16,943
Falkland Islands	92	76	90
Faroe Islands	283	327	418
Fiji	12,963	11,605	9,578
Finland	162,433	149,605	151,121
France	1,961,928	1,755,139	1,595,646
French Guiana	1,512	1,483	1,051
French Polynesia	6,275	5,743	4,058
Gabon	3,122	3,241	2,690
Gambia	2,412	2,036	1,707
Georgia	9,181	11,020	8,443
Germany	2,273,054	2,010,524	1,972,638
Ghana	26,657	25,408	21,622
Gibraltar	1,472	1,454	1,445
Greece	77,719	72,911	74,900
Greenland	201	174	195
Grenada	10,290	11,824	9,216
Guadeloupe	3,897	5,954	6,277
Guam	2,923	2,634	2,780
Guatemala	253,527	256,829	243,793
Guernsey	7	56	58
Guinea	2,671	2,612	2,882
Guinea-Bissau	270	306	217
Guyana	40,085	53,012	53,795
Haiti	117,387	130,071	121,329
Holy See	252	264	226
Honduras	173,601	181,185	172,145
Hong Kong	134,863	137,834	140,506
Hungary	80,696	77,184	79,678
Iceland	54,708	50,441	53,067
India	1,551,246	1,721,136	1,547,194
Indonesia	125,291	131,267	104,648
Iran	27,121	28,750	23,264
Iraq	20,207	17,649	15,288
Ireland	456,504	435,243	437,525
Isle of Man	64	113	105
Israel	398,749	456,280	377,341
Italy	1,141,375	1,004,639	990,461
Jamaica	254,424	292,531	259,833
Japan	4,079,845	3,745,480	3,623,109
Jersey	9	75	57
Jordan	37,518	45,298	36,964
Kazakhstan	24,658	27,806	20,472
Kenya	25,879	27,541	25,617
Kiribati	790	963	734
Korea, North	396	457	710
Korea, South	1,705,540	1,831,790	1,961,237
Kosovo	4,393	4,707	4,561
Kuwait	66,622	76,456	59,469
Kyrgyzstan	3,808	3,292	2,903
Laos	2,594	2,355	1,862
Latvia	21,211	20,950	20,265
Lebanon	41,600	43,531	35,480
Lesotho	565	560	544
Liberia	4,962	5,245	3,624
Libya	3,733	2,499	1,619
Liechtenstein	2,606	2,268	2,104
Lithuania	25,897	25,725	28,230
Luxembourg	21,293	20,080	19,421
Macau	3,446	4,102	4,542
Macedonia	8,622	9,078	8,067
Madagascar	1,604	1,642	1,587
Malawi	2,093	2,682	2,326
Malaysia	96,827	94,222	76,303
Maldives	529	575	389
Mali	3,760	3,762	3,423
Malta	6,494	5,934	6,098
Marshall Islands	420	345	238
Martinique	6,207	7,277	7,113
Mauritania	1,801	1,800	1,369
Mauritius	6,103	5,924	5,183
Mayotte	95	55	81
Mexico	19,860,016	20,165,672	17,830,466
Micronesia, Federated States	1,732	1,377	1,513
Moldova	11,655	11,538	9,295
Monaco	4,230	3,697	4,028
Mongolia	13,359	14,135	11,885
Montserrat	343	301	312
Morocco	29,986	32,602	25,935
Mozambique	3,488	2,996	2,441
Namibia	2,705	2,752	2,284
Nauru	209	199	237
Nepal	20,392	26,484	28,267
Netherlands	725,031	649,631	630,280
Netherlands Antilles (former)	3,928	3,968	2,490
New Caledonia	989	784	715
New Zealand	303,021	297,495	299,098
Nicaragua	65,022	68,506	62,110
Niger	1,524	1,807	1,660
Nigeria	181,833	200,918	161,475
Niue	22	17	16
Norfolk Island	53	50	74
Northern Mariana Islands	164	182	279
Norway	340,341	313,012	274,340
Oman	12,010	12,748	9,888
Pakistan	84,207	98,152	92,898
Palau	2,400	583	368
Panama	178,153	184,440	154,357
Papua New Guinea	1,461	1,938	1,306
Paraguay	33,760	34,712	28,190
Peru	289,935	318,285	265,971
Philippines	363,269	379,364	345,351
Pitcairn Islands	96	46	50
Poland	187,679	199,311	169,179
Portugal	132,266	127,530	124,075
Puerto Rico	777	1,001	1,040
Qatar	32,233	35,799	31,671
Reunion	918	1,289	3,012
Romania	83,824	86,196	75,926
Russia	389,481	302,714	240,680
Rwanda	4,568	4,584	4,742
Saint Barthelemy	69	71	46
Saint Helena	48	47	53
Saint Kitts and Nevis	12,384	12,528	9,624
Saint Lucia	16,131	16,955	14,138
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	107	141	127
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11,154	11,404	8,792
Samoa	1,953	2,125	1,897
San Marino	734	830	656
Sao Tome and Principe	139	131	118
Saudi Arabia	294,760	312,728	203,723
Senegal	10,290	9,834	8,447
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	7,523	36,995	35,363
Seychelles	455	500	434
Sierra Leone	2,933	2,821	2,253
Singapore	175,836	166,585	158,265
Sint Maarten	2,059	1,931	2,054
Slovakia	48,581	46,302	47,471
Slovenia	23,578	23,393	22,897
Solomon Islands	473	419	496
Somalia	301	301	360
South Africa	141,644	148,557	124,705
South Sudan	392	461	381
Spain	899,989	880,438	860,571
Sri Lanka	22,188	23,404	20,771
Sudan	3,587	3,531	4,176
Suriname	14,246	15,352	11,853
Swaziland	2,265	2,164	1,812
Sweden	592,145	571,045	550,394
Switzerland	564,751	495,718	462,054
Syria	10,828	9,049	6,311
Taiwan	469,634	464,567	453,430
Tajikistan	1,710	1,900	1,848
Tanzania	8,142	9,147	7,215
Thailand	117,397	114,046	102,308
Timor-Leste	274	270	232
Togo	2,092	2,396	2,250
Tokelau	221	104	91
Tonga	2,048	2,867	3,419
Trinidad and Tobago	171,697	187,222	150,492
Tunisia	11,708	11,718	10,589
Turkey	205,105	215,974	185,200
Turkmenistan	1,677	1,605	1,264
Turks and Caicos Islands	11,073	11,246	11,465
Tuvalu	191	163	161
Uganda	9,643	10,647	9,220
Ukraine	93,338	110,255	95,886
United Arab Emirates	110,863	121,685	113,275
United Kingdom	4,456,512	4,228,183	4,377,714
United States⁴	825,906	807,701	752,430
Uruguay	91,197	89,973	78,438
Uzbekistan	9,320	11,386	9,941
Vanuatu	350	360	401
Venezuela	790,900	641,333	507,222
Vietnam	87,929	107,976	95,606
Virgin Islands, British	33,045	33,930	26,561
Virgin Islands, U.S.	355	482	429
Wallis and Futuna	60	53	48
Western Sahara	137	131	142
Yemen	3,834	3,559	2,989
Zambia	5,039	5,180	4,385
Zimbabwe	8,596	9,311	8,107
Unknown	4,947,803	7,250,829	14,030,574

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