List of countries by net migration rate

This is a list of countries by net migration rate, the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year, per 1,000 persons (based on midyear population).

MethodEdit

An excess of persons entering the country is referred to as net immigration (e.g., 3.56 migrants/1,000 population); an excess of persons leaving the country as net emigration (e.g., -9.26 migrants/1,000 population). The net migration rate indicates the contribution of migration to the overall level of population change. The net migration rate does not distinguish between economic migrants, refugees, and other types of migrants nor does it distinguish between lawful migrants and unlawful migrants.^[1]

DataEdit

World Bank (2012)Edit

Countries and territoriesEdit

Country	Total population^[2]	Total net migration 5 year period (2007–2012)^[3]	Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants 5 year period (2007–2012)
Aruba	102,393	1,253	12.24
Argentina	43,847,430	-	-
Afghanistan	29,726,803	473,007	15.91
Angola	25,789,024	102,322	4.51
Albania	2,900,247	-91,750	-31.64
United Arab Emirates	8,952,542	405,000	45.24
Andorra	42,095,224	30,000	0.71
Armenia	2,978,339	-9,876	-3.32
American Samoa	55,227	-	-
Antigua and Barbuda	89,069	-56	-0.63
Australia	22,728,254	1,023,107	45.01
Austria	8,429,991	147,089	17.45
Azerbaijan	9,295,784	-16,125	-1.73
Burundi	10,124,572	40,000	3.95
Belgium	11,128,246	269,998	24.26
Benin	10,049,792	-10,000	-1.00
Burkina Faso	16,590,813	-125,000	-7.53
Bangladesh	155,257,387	-2,226,481	-14.34
Bulgaria	7,305,888	-50,000	-6.84
Bahrain	1,333,577	29,915	22.43
Bahamas	372,388	9,672	25.97
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,828,419	-2,506	-0.65
Belarus	9,464,000	120,535	12.74
Belize	336,707	7,594	22.55
Bermuda	64,798	-	-
Bolivia	10,238,762	-61,794	-6.04
Brazil	202,401,584	15,924	0.08
Barbados	281,580	2,180	7.74
Brunei	405,512	2,102	5.18
Bhutan	743,711	10,000	13.45
Botswana	2,132,822	20,000	9.38
Central African Republic	4,619,500	10,000	2.16
Canada	34,751,476	1,175,863	33.84
Switzerland	7,996,861	382,267	47.80
Chile	17,388,437	80,820	4.64
China	1,350,695,000	-1,800,000	-1.33
Cote d'Ivoire	21,102,641	50,000	2.37
Cameroon	21,659,488	-60,000	-2.77
Congo, Republic of the	4,286,188	-60,000	-14.00
Colombia	46,881,018	-144,998	-3.09
Comoros	733,661	-10,000	-13.63
Cabo Verde	500,870	-11,052	-22.07
Costa Rica	4,654,148	19,658	4.22
Cuba	11,342,631	-79,999	-7.05
Curaçao	152,088	5,710	37.54
Cayman Islands	57,522	-	-
Cyprus	1,129,303	35,000	30.99
Czech Republic	10,510,785	29,999	2.85
Germany	80,425,823	1,249,998	15.54
Djibouti	853,069	-15,996	-18.75
Dominican Republic	71,685	-	-
Denmark	5,591,572	96,839	17.32
Dominican Republic	10,155,036	-153,010	-15.07
Algeria	37,439,427	-143,268	-3.83
Ecuador	15,419,493	-38,001	-2.46
Egypt	85,660,902	-215,681	-2.52
Eritrea	-	-160,001	-
Spain	46,773,055	-593,069	-12.68
Estonia	1,322,696	-11,850	-8.96
Ethiopia	92,191,211	-60,001	-0.65
Finland	5,413,971	107,409	19.84
Fiji	874,158	-28,720	-32.85
France	65,659,790	331,555	5.05
Faroe Islands	48,393	-	-
Micronesia	103,516	-8,192	-79.14
Gabon	1,613,489	5,000	3.10
Georgia	3,825,000	-296,323	-77.47
Ghana	25,544,565	-49,999	-1.96
Gibraltar	31,402	-	-
Papua New Guinea	11,628,767	-10,000	-0.86
Gambia	1,807,108	-13,476	-7.46
Guinea-Bissau	1,714,620	-10,000	-5.83
Equatorial Guinea	773,729	20,000	25.85
Greece	11,045,011	-136,299	-12.34
Grenada	105,476	-4,274	-40.52
Greenland	56,810	-	-
Guatemala	15,368,759	-120,001	-7.81
Guam	162,807	0	0.00
Guyana	758,410	-27,278	-35.97
Hong Kong	7,154,600	150,000	20.97
Honduras	7,736,131	-80,000	-10.34
Croatia	4,267,558	-20,000	-4.69
Haiti	10,288,828	-150,000	-14.58
Hungary	9,920,362	29,999	3.02
Indonesia	248,037,853	-700,000	-2.82
Isle of Man	85,779	-	-
India	1,263,589,639	-2,598,218	-2.06
Ireland	4,586,897	-140,001	-30.52
Iran	76,156,975	-300,001	-3.94
Iraq	32,957,622	548,666	16.65
Iceland	320,716	-378	-1.18
Israel	7,910,500	19,497	2.46
Italy	59,539,717	528,269	8.87
Jamaica	2,707,805	-97,000	-35.82
Jordan	6,994,451	229,617	32.83
Japan	127,561,489	350,000	2.74
Kazakhstan	16,791,425	159,807	9.52
Kenya	42,542,978	-50,000	-1.18
Kyrgyzstan	5,607,200	-113,963	-20.32
Cambodia	14,832,255	-149,999	-10.11
Kiribati	106,620	-2,130	-19.98
Saint Kitts and Nevis	53,650	-	-
Korea, South	50,004,441	300,000	6.00
Kosovo	1,805,200	-	-
Kuwait	3,419,581	517,500	151.33
Laos	6,473,050	-117,700	-18.18
Lebanon	4,924,257	1,250,000	253.85
Liberia	4,190,155	-20,000	-4.77
Libya	6,283,403	-501,692	-79.84
Saint Lucia	180,890	40	0.22
Liechtenstein	36,791	-	-
Sri Lanka	20,424,000	-484,772	-23.74
Lesotho	2,057,331	-19,998	-9.72
Lithuania	2,987,773	-169,529	-56.74
Luxembourg	530,946	48,704	91.73
Latvia	2,034,319	-73,442	-36.10
Macau	557,763	35,000	62.75
Saint Martin	30,959	-	-
Morocco	32,984,190	-310,624	-9.42
Monaco	37,404	-	-
Moldova	3,559,519	-9,529	-2.68
Madagascar	22,293,720	-5,000	-0.22
Maldives	385,000	-53	-0.14
Mexico	122,070,963	-523,585	-4.29
Marshall Islands	52,663	-	-
Macedonia	2,069,270	-4,999	-2.42
Mali	16,112,333	-302,449	-18.77
Malta	419,455	6,252	14.91
Myanmar	52,543,841	-474,278	-9.03
Montenegro	620,601	-2,412	-3.89
Mongolia	2,808,339	-15,001	-5.34
Northern Mariana Islands (USA)	53,314	-	-
Mozambique	25,732,928	-25,000	-0.97
Mauritania	3,777,067	-20,000	-5.30
Mauritius	1,255,882	0	0.00
Malawi	15,700,436	-30,000	-1.91
Malaysia	29,021,940	450,000	15.51
Namibia	2,291,645	-1,371	-0.60
New Caledonia	259,000	5,660	21.85
Niger	17,635,782	-28,497	-1.62
Nigeria	168,240,403	-300,000	-1.78
Nicaragua	5,877,034	-135,000	-22.97
Netherlands	16,754,962	110,006	6.57
Norway	5,018,573	235,665	46.96
Nepal	27,500,515	-372,369	-13.54
Nauru	10,079	-	-
New Zealand	4,408,100	7,265	1.65
Oman	3,545,192	1,211,000	341.59
Pakistan	177,392,252	-1,081,918	-6.10
Panama	3,743,761	28,105	7.51
Peru	30,158,768	-240,000	-7.96
Philippines	96,017,322	-700,000	-7.29
Palau	20,756	-	-
Papua New Guinea	7,154,870	0	0.00
Poland	38,063,164	-73,809	-1.94
Puerto Rico	3,634,487	-103,537	-28.49
Korea, North	24,763,353	0	0.00
Portugal	10,514,844	-140,000	-13.31
Paraguay	6,379,162	-86,700	-13.59
French Polynesia	273,775	-500	-1.83
Qatar	2,015,624	363,500	180.34
Romania	20,058,035	-437,201	-21.80
Russia	143,201,676	1,117,884	7.81
Rwanda	10,817,350	-75,001	-6.93
Saudi Arabia	29,496,047	850,000	28.82
Sudan	37,712,420	-800,000	-21.21
Senegal	13,780,108	-99,996	-7.26
Singapore	5,312,437	397,936	74.91
Solomon Islands	549,162	-11,868	-21.61
Sierra Leone	6,043,157	-21,000	-3.48
El Salvador	6,072,233	-240,415	-39.59
San Marino	31,172	-	-
Somalia	10,033,630	-400,000	-39.87
Serbia	7,199,077	-99,999	-13.89
South Sudan	10,980,623	865,000	78.78
São Tomé and Príncipe	178,484	-5,599	-31.37
Suriname	528,535	-5,000	-9.46
Slovakia	5,407,579	1,199	0.22
Slovenia	2,057,159	4,324	2.10
Sweden	9,519,374	272,626	28.64
Swaziland	1,231,694	-6,000	-4.87
Sint Maarten	34,640	-	-
Seychelles	88,303	-1,551	-17.56
Syria	19,978,756	-4,029,996	-201.71
Turks and Caicos Islands	32,430	-	-
Chad	12,715,465	100,000	7.86
Togo	6,745,581	-9,994	-1.48
Thailand	67,164,130	100,000	1.49
Tajikistan	7,930,929	-117,382	-14.80
Turkmenistan	5,172,941	-25,001	-4.83
Timor-Leste	1,148,958	-50,004	-43.52
Tonga	104,769	-8,078	-77.10
Trinidad and Tobago	1,341,579	-5,000	-3.73
Tunisia	10,777,500	-32,941	-3.06
Turkey	74,849,187	2,000,003	26.72
Tuvalu	9,860	-	-
Tanzania	48,645,709	-199,999	-4.11
Uganda	35,400,620	-150,000	-4.24
Ukraine	45,593,300	195,000	4.28
Uruguay	3,396,753	-30,000	-8.83
United Kingdom	63,700,300	900,000	14.13
United States	314,102,623	5,007,887	15.94
Uzbekistan	29,774,500	-195,001	-6.55
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	109,334	-5,000	-45.73
Venezuela	29,854,238	-69,121	-2.32
British Virgin Islands	28,511	-	-
U.S. Virgin Islands	105,275	-3,604	-34.23
Vietnam	88,809,200	-200,002	-2.25
Vanuatu	247,498	603	2.44
West Bank and Gaza Strip	4,046,901	-43,750	-10.81
World	7,089,451,551	0	0.00
Samoa	188,901	-12,690	-67.18
Yemen	24,882,792	-50,000	-2.01
South Africa	52,356,381	600,000	11.46
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	70,291,160	-95,920	-1.36
Zambia	14,786,581	-34,490	-2.33
Zimbabwe	14,565,482	-219,922	-15.10

RegionsEdit

Region	Total Population^[2]	Total Net Migration^[3]	Net Migration per 1000 Inhabitants
Arab World	368,802,611	-1,168,750	-3.17
Central Europe and the Baltics	103,935,318	-770,310	-7.41
Channel Islands	161,336	3,654	22.65
Caribbean small states	6,937,108	-124,122	-17.89
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)	1,991,783,241	-3,728,059	-1.87
Early-demographic dividend	2,991,724,468	-12,621,653	-4.22
East Asia & Pacific	2,233,936,812	-1,457,489	-0.65
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)	403,830,537	2,121,162	5.25
Europe & Central Asia	895,050,287	5,547,385	6.20
Euro area	336,161,537	1,575,613	4.69
Fragile and conflict affected situations	452,946,224	-4,018,991	-8.87
European Union	505,098,575	2,324,066	4.60
High income	1,166,574,800	15,359,563	13.17
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	664,163,813	-2,672,487	-4.02
IBRD only	4,392,620,014	-3,001,551	-0.68
IDA & IBRD total	5,947,367,231	-15,156,043	-2.55
IDA total	1,554,747,217	-12,154,492	-7.82
IDA blend	551,030,216	-2,758,229	-5.01
IDA only	1,003,717,001	-9,396,263	-9.36
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)	585,536,615	-2,159,855	-3.69
Latin America & Caribbean	612,638,376	-2,081,948	-3.40
Least developed countries: UN classification	888,606,627	-4,741,314	-5.34
Low income	588,316,015	-1,115,618	-1.90
Lower middle income	2,801,879,869	-15,784,815	-5.63
Low & middle income	5,922,876,751	-15,350,665	-2.59
Late-demographic dividend	2,208,629,633	1,194,303	0.54
Middle East & North Africa	401,032,763	-213,002	-0.53
Middle income	5,334,560,736	-14,235,047	-2.67
Middle East & North Africa (excluding high income)	343,940,245	-3,615,666	-10.51
North America	348,918,897	6,183,750	17.72
OECD members	1,258,042,183	13,138,424	10.44
Other small states	27,109,032	332,029	12.25
Pre-demographic dividend	779,862,983	-891,831	-1.14
Pacific island small states	2,267,982	-71,075	-31.34
Post-demographic dividend	1,082,692,198	12,324,314	11.38
South Asia	1,675,019,307	-6,280,804	-3.75
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)	922,766,806	-1,687,443	-1.83
Sub-Saharan Africa	922,855,109	-1,688,994	-1.83
Small states	36,314,122	136,832	3.77
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries)	1,966,974,740	-3,728,059	-1.90
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries)	446,161,259	2,027,353	4.54
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries)	596,463,472	-1,913,623	-3.21
Middle East & North Africa (IDA & IBRD countries)	339,893,344	-3,571,916	-10.51
South Asia (IDA & IBRD countries)	1,675,019,307	-6,280,804	-3.75
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries)	922,855,109	-1,688,994	-1.83
Upper middle income	2,532,680,867	1,549,768	0.61

The World Factbook by CIAEdit

2017 estimates.

Rank	Country	Migrants per 1,000 population^[1]
1	British Virgin Islands	16.50
2	Luxembourg	15.50
3	Qatar	14.60
4	Cayman Islands	13.80
5	Singapore	13.10
6
7	Anguilla	11.70
8	South Sudan	10.60
9	United Arab Emirates	10.50
10	Turks and Caicos Islands	9.50
11	Aruba	8.70
12	Cyprus	8.70
13	Spain	7.80
14	San Marino	7.50
15	Sint Maarten	6.30
16	Isle of Man	6.00
17	Norway	5.90
18	Canada	5.70
19	Monaco	5.70
20	Djibouti	5.70
21	Australia	5.50
22	Belgium	5.40
23	Sweden	5.30
24	Liechtenstein	5.00
25	Austria	4.80
26	Switzerland	4.70
27	Ireland	4.00
28	Iceland	4.00
29	United States	3.90
30	New Caledonia	3.90
31	Italy	3.70
32	Macau	3.30
33	Jersey	3.20
34	Botswana	3.00
35	Finland	2.90
36	Korea, South	2.50
37	United Kingdom	2.50
38	Portugal	2.50
39	Brunei	2.40
40	Greece	2.30
41	Czechia	2.30
42	Antigua and Barbuda	2.20
43	Israel	2.20
44	New Zealand	2.20
45	Guernsey	2.20
46	Denmark	2.10
47	Malta	2.00
48	Libya	1.90
49	Netherlands	1.90
50	Bermuda	1.80
51	Hong Kong	1.70
52	Russia	1.70
53	Germany	1.50
54	Hungary	1.30
55	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.20
56	France	1.10
57	Seychelles	1.00
58	Taiwan	0.90
59	Palau	0.80
60	Costa Rica	0.80
61	Belarus	0.70
62	Suriname	0.60
63	Kazakhstan	0.40
64	Yemen	0.40
65	Slovenia	0.40
66	Chile	0.30
67	Angola	0.20
68	Rwanda	0.20
69	Slovakia	0.10
70	Andorra	0.00
71	Zambia	0.00
72	Bahamas, The	0.00
73	Belize	0.00
74	Benin	0.00
75	Bhutan	0.00
76	Burkina Faso	0.00
77	Burundi	0.00
78	Central African Republic	0.00
79	Cote d'Ivoire	0.00
80	Ecuador	0.00
81	Equatorial Guinea	0.00
82	Faroe Islands	0.00
83	Guinea	0.00
84	Guinea-Bissau	0.00
85	India	0.00
86	Japan	0.00
87	Jordan	0.00
88	Korea, North	0.00
89	Madagascar	0.00
90	Malawi	0.00
91	Mauritius	0.00
92	Montserrat	0.00
93	Namibia	0.00
94	Papua New Guinea	0.00
95	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	0.00
96	Serbia	0.00
97	Swaziland	0.00
98	Thailand	0.00
99	Togo	0.00
100	Ukraine	0.00
101	Azerbaijan	0.00
102	Argentina	-0.10
103	Cameroon	-0.10
104	Brazil	-0.10
105	Paraguay	-0.10
106	Nigeria	-0.20
107	Kenya	-0.20
108	Panama	-0.20
109	Romania	-0.20
110	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	-0.20
111	Iran	-0.20
112	Ethiopia	-0.20
113	Cambodia	-0.30
114	Bulgaria	-0.30
115	Vietnam	-0.30
116	Barbados	-0.30
117	Malaysia	-0.30
118	Poland	-0.40
119	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.40
120	Oman	-0.40
121	China	-0.40
122	Macedonia	-0.50
123	Egypt	-0.50
124	Tanzania	-0.50
125	Saudi Arabia	-0.50
126	Bolivia	-0.50
127	Niger	-0.50
128	Cabo Verde	-0.60
129	Colombia	-0.60
130	Uganda	-0.70
131	French Polynesia	-0.80
132	Mauritania	-0.80
133	Mongolia	-0.80
134	Afghanistan	-0.90
135	Algeria	-0.90
136	South Africa	-0.90
137	Uruguay	-0.90
138	Laos	-1.10
139	Indonesia	-1.10
140	Tajikistan	-1.10
141	Honduras	-1.10
142	Iraq	-1.20
143	Venezuela	-1.21
144	Pakistan	-1.30
145	Sri Lanka	-1.30
146	Curacao	-1.30
147	Vanuatu	-1.40
148	Burma	-1.50
149	Senegal	-1.50
150	Georgia	-1.60
151	Croatia	-1.70
152	Tunisia	-1.70
153	Solomon Islands	-1.70
154	Turkmenistan	-1.80
155	Ghana	-1.80
156	Mexico	-1.80
157	Guatemala	-1.90
158	Dominican Republic	-1.90
159	Gambia, The	-1.90
160	Mozambique	-1.90
161	Gabon	-2.00
162	Philippines	-2.00
163	Haiti	-2.00
164	Sierra Leone	-2.10
165	Uzbekistan	-2.20
166	Peru	-2.20
167	Nepal	-2.20
168	Kuwait	-2.40
169	Comoros	-2.40
170	Saint Lucia	-2.50
171	Nicaragua	-2.70
172	Kiribati	-2.90
173	Grenada	-2.90
174	Bangladesh	-3.10
175	Estonia	-3.20
176	Chad	-3.20
177	Morocco	-3.20
178	Albania	-3.30
179	Gibraltar	-3.30
180	Congo, Republic of the	-3.80
181	Mali	-3.90
182	Timor-Leste	-3.90
183	Sudan	-4.10
184	Jamaica	-4.30
185	Turkey	-4.50
186	West Bank	-4.50
187	Marshall Islands	-4.70
188	Wallis and Futuna	-4.70
189	Guyana	-4.80
190	Cuba	-4.90
191	Gaza Strip	-5.10
192	Kyrgyzstan	-5.10
193	Dominica	-5.40
194	Liberia	-5.70
195	Armenia	-5.70
196	Trinidad and Tobago	-5.90
197	Greenland	-6.00
198	Lithuania	-6.10
199	Latvia	-6.10
200	Fiji	-6.50
201	Somalia	-6.50
202	Tuvalu	-6.70
203	Lesotho	-6.80
204	U.S. Virgin Islands	-7.50
205	El Salvador	-8.00
206	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	-8.00
207	Sao Tome and Principe	-8.30
208	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-8.40
209	Zimbabwe	-8.50
210	Samoa	-9.10
211	Moldova	-9.40
212	Guam	-11.10
213	Maldives	-12.70
214	Nauru	-12.80
215	Eritrea	-13.90
216	Northern Mariana Islands	-15.20
217	Puerto Rico	-16.90
218	Tonga	-17.80
219	Lebanon	-20.30
220	Micronesia, Federated States of	-20.90
221	American Samoa	-26.70