 Egyptian emigration was liberalised in 1971, under President Sadat, reaching record numbers after the 1973 oil crisis.An estimated 2.7 million Egyptians live abroad.Approximately 70% of Egyptian migrants live in Arab countries (923,600 in Saudi Arabia, 332,600 in Libya, 226,850 in Jordan, 190,550 in Kuwait with the rest elsewhere in the region) and the remaining 30% reside mostly in Europe and North America (318,000 in the United States, 110,000 in Canada and 90,000 in Italy).