Up to a tenth of the population emigrated.
About a fifth of Guinea's population emigrated, many to escape Mr. Tour?
After the civil war's brutal end in 1949, more than a third of the rural population emigrated to Australia, Germany and America.
It suffered during the Wars of Religion (late 16th century), and more than half its population emigrated after 1685, when the revocation of the Edict of Nantes deprived French Protestants of their civil and religious liberties.
The probable result would be a massive depopulation of the EU-13, as the best and brightest of the working-age population emigrated to the EU-15.
Nearly one million Israelis, representing 13percentt of the population, emigrated from Israel in the past 20 years.
Tutsis, once 14percentt of the population, emigrated until they were just 8.2percentt of Rwandan residents.
A portion of the population emigrates to other Australian states and cities.
Between 1949 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, an estimated 3.5 million East Germans – a sixth of the entire population – emigrated to the West, most via Berlin.
