According to Statistics Sweden, as of 2016, there 116,384 citizens of Syria (70,060 men, 46,324 women) residing in Sweden.[4] There are an estimated 18,000 of the latter immigrants living in Södertälje.[5] As of 2016, 5,459 Syrian citizens (2,803 men, 2,656 women) residing in Sweden are registered as asylum seekers.[6] In 2016, there were 39 registered emigrations from Sweden to Syria.[7]