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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Bangladeshi birth or descent who live outside of Bangladesh. First-generation migrants may have moved abroad from Bangladesh for various reasons including better living conditions, to escape poverty, to support their financial condition, or to send money back to families there. There is a large Bangladeshi population in Saudi Arabia. 50,000 Bangladeshi were working in there in 2011, a nation of only around 400,000 people, with a third having no valid documents or registration. Bangladeshis in the Middle East form the largest part of the worldwide Bangladeshi diaspora.
9 million live within the Middle East. More than two million are in Saudi Arabia. The United Arab Emirates is home to 706,000. The introduction of Islam to the Bengali people has generated a connection to the Arabian Peninsula, as Muslims are required to visit the land once in their lifetime to complete the Hajj pilgrimage.
There are around 3 Bangladeshi schools in Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. There are 706,000 Bangladeshis residing in the United Arab Emirates as of 2020. There is one Bangladeshi school in UAE called Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Bangladesh Islamia School in Abu Dhabi. The Bangladeshi population in Malaysia is 1,000,000 as of 2018.
In South Korea, there are more than 12,678 Bangladeshi foreign workers in the country as of 2013. A few of them include illegal immigrants. As of 2010, Japan’s Ministry of Justice recorded 10,175 Bangladeshi nationals among the total population of registered foreigners in Japan. The census in 2000 found up to 95,300 were born in Bangladesh. Census Bureau’s 2018 American Community Survey, there were 213,372 people of Bangladeshi origin living in the US. This section does not cite any sources. Bangladeshi Canadian refers to a person of Bangladeshi background born in Canada or a Bangladeshi that has migrated to Canada.