Countries by net migration

The United States had the highest net migration of 215 countries in 2013, at 1.66 million. Syria had the lowest, at -2.08 million. The median was -968 and the figure for the World was 0. Source: the World Bank.

Highest1,663,885United States

Lowest-2,081,303Syria

Median-968215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2013

persons. Source: World Bank, Net migration (SM.POP.NETM). Retrieved 2026-10-11.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2013 persons	Change on 2012
1	United States	1,663,885	+2%
2	Lebanon	733,500	+489.5%
3	Jordan	609,631	+517%
4	Saudi Arabia	485,794	+1.4%
5	Iraq	474,379	-37.1%
6	Germany	462,384	+132.2%
7	Türkiye	438,618	+69.6%
8	South Korea	301,926	+7.1%
9	Russia	289,872	+1.4%
10	United Arab Emirates	279,269	+23.6%
11	Canada	239,813	-1.6%
12	United Kingdom	237,272	+37.9%
13	South Africa	232,230	-12.1%
14	Australia	215,823	-8.5%
15	Italy	158,090	-37.4%
16	Malaysia	149,637	+10.9%
17	Qatar	133,520	+73.2%
18	Egypt	130,305	+5,062.1%
19	Angola	124,478	-4.7%
20	Democratic Republic of the Congo	121,097	+125.6%
21	France	116,297	+12.6%
22	Oman	113,335	-64.9%
23	Kuwait	107,821	-15.6%
24	Switzerland	83,823	+23.6%
25	Ethiopia	80,955	-32.3%
26	Thailand	67,452	-8.9%
27	Sweden	66,760	+26.3%
28	Japan	66,449	-2.1%
29	South Sudan	65,337	-48.1%
30	Austria	56,726	+26%
31	Singapore	52,176	-33.5%
32	Chad	51,887	+445.4%
33	Norway	40,690	-15%
34	Nigeria	40,201	-43.5%
35	Chile	36,529	+18.3%
36	Bahrain	35,574	+177.9%
37	Papua New Guinea	35,280	-6.9%
38	Senegal	34,878	+181.2%
39	Belgium	28,066	-37.6%
40	Ukraine	26,781	-59.9%
41	New Zealand	26,385	+2,699.5%
42	Libya	25,755	+394.2%
43	Hong Kong	23,826	-33%
44	Denmark	21,359	+26.6%
45	Somalia	20,723	+140%
46	Netherlands	19,973	+34.4%
47	Gabon	19,587	-1.9%
48	Finland	18,164	+1.5%
49	Afghanistan	18,119	-73.6%
50	Equatorial Guinea	18,106	+1.4%
51	Israel	17,075	+3.2%
52	Zambia	15,542	+73.5%
53	Poland	12,402	+167.6%
54	Cyprus	11,914	-2.6%
55	Namibia	10,748	-1.9%
56	Belarus	10,550	-3.2%
57	Luxembourg	10,535	+2.6%
58	Turkmenistan	7,287	+2.3%
59	Macao	7,150	+4.8%
60	Maldives	6,963	+2.4%
61	Panama	5,926	+8.8%
62	Yemen	5,697	-74.5%
63	Hungary	5,635	-63.1%
64	Solomon Islands	5,631	+3.9%
65	Czechia	5,427	+1.5%
66	Argentina	5,275	+77.1%
67	Sierra Leone	2,773	+180.7%
68	Azerbaijan	2,291	+15.4%
69	New Caledonia	2,198	+6%
70	Djibouti	2,033	-3.4%
71	Seychelles	1,717	+11.6%
72	Iceland	1,666	+701.4%
73	Costa Rica	1,579	-0.5%
74	Belize	1,505	-1.2%
74	Mongolia	1,505	+328.8%
76	Dominica	1,376	+398.5%
77	British Virgin Islands	1,367	+25.6%
78	Turks and Caicos Islands	1,333	+6.1%
79	Curaçao	1,283	-12.7%
80	Tanzania	1,241	+102.5%
81	Cayman Islands	1,077	+1.6%
82	Bahamas	1,002	-4.3%
83	Monaco	926	+2.2%
84	Malta	861	-5.5%
85	Slovenia	639	-42.8%
86	Sint Maarten	530	+0.4%
87	Aruba	315	-0.6%
88	Bhutan	309	+1,445%
89	Brunei	285	-17.6%
90	Gibraltar	209	+34.8%
91	Liechtenstein	180	-22.1%
92	Antigua and Barbuda	145	-26%
93	San Marino	57	-60.1%
94	Faroe Islands	48	+500%
95	Palau	-28	+92.8%
96	Nauru	-53	-39.5%
97	Barbados	-65	-1.6%
98	Saint Lucia	-114	+15.6%
99	Bermuda	-125	+47.3%
100	Tuvalu	-160	-16,100%
101	Grenada	-181	+8.1%
102	Saint Kitts and Nevis	-202	0%
103	Isle of Man	-291	-5.1%
104	Saint Martin	-545	-16%
105	Greenland	-653	-18.1%
106	Trinidad and Tobago	-796	+9.5%
107	Benin	-887	-170.4%
108	Suriname	-968	+4.3%
109	Kiribati	-1,101	-0.7%
110	Slovakia	-1,181	-235.6%
111	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-1,190	+2.5%
112	Timor-Leste	-1,206	-98%
113	Bulgaria	-1,324	+95%
114	U.S. Virgin Islands	-1,332	+1%
115	Vanuatu	-1,343	+1.9%
116	American Samoa	-1,354	-1.7%
117	Guinea-Bissau	-1,395	+3.3%
118	Northern Mariana Islands	-1,547	-9.3%
119	Micronesia	-1,559	+4.4%
120	Andorra	-1,642	+25.4%
121	French Polynesia	-1,744	+20.1%
122	São Tomé and Príncipe	-1,787	-2.8%
123	Marshall Islands	-1,825	-3.8%
124	Burundi	-2,285	-110.1%
125	Comoros	-2,365	+38.3%
126	Ghana	-2,377	-336.5%
127	Madagascar	-2,445	-4.8%
128	Gambia	-2,476	-6.2%
129	Montenegro	-2,478	-56.5%
130	Niger	-2,543	-113.6%
131	Tonga	-2,637	-2.3%
132	Estonia	-2,688	+26.8%
133	Guam	-2,809	+6.2%
134	North Korea	-2,933	-0.5%
135	Mauritania	-2,987	-166.2%
136	Samoa	-3,107	-0.6%
137	Mauritius	-3,617	+1.3%
138	Kazakhstan	-3,925	+13%
139	Vietnam	-4,979	-2.6%
140	Uruguay	-5,647	+10.6%
141	Honduras	-6,091	-3.4%
142	Ecuador	-6,182	+21.6%
143	Croatia	-6,245	-30.3%
144	Cape Verde	-6,622	+2.3%
145	Lesotho	-6,659	-3.6%
146	Cameroon	-6,900	+8.3%
147	Guyana	-6,907	+3.4%
148	Botswana	-7,836	-18.1%
149	Kyrgyzstan	-9,667	+22.7%
150	Jamaica	-10,335	+1.6%
151	Fiji	-10,703	-5.8%
152	Bolivia	-11,369	+2.7%
153	Ireland	-12,309	+45.1%
154	Eswatini	-12,664	-3%
155	Malawi	-12,934	+4.6%
156	Latvia	-14,386	-20.7%
157	Armenia	-16,265	+3.1%
158	Tajikistan	-16,362	-34.9%
159	Lithuania	-16,769	+21.6%
160	Rwanda	-16,779	+33.6%
161	Tunisia	-17,020	+34.7%
162	Paraguay	-17,232	+3%
163	Serbia	-17,866	+3.5%
164	North Macedonia	-20,297	-6.4%
165	Uzbekistan	-20,380	0%
166	Albania	-20,681	-4.2%
167	Liberia	-22,010	+14.4%
168	Republic of the Congo	-24,605	+7.6%
169	Nicaragua	-26,587	+2.9%
170	Palestine	-26,979	-0.2%
171	Laos	-27,492	+4.8%
172	Indonesia	-27,507	+4.7%
173	Guinea	-29,136	+11.2%
174	Algeria	-30,052	-12.3%
175	Haiti	-30,323	-2.2%
176	Burkina Faso	-33,212	-58.7%
177	Eritrea	-33,974	+21.5%
178	Romania	-34,910	+7.1%
179	Togo	-35,346	-29.4%
180	Guatemala	-35,698	-9.4%
181	Portugal	-36,342	+2%
182	Dominican Republic	-36,673	+0.2%
183	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-37,002	+44.3%
184	Cuba	-37,619	-4.2%
185	Sri Lanka	-37,754	+10%
186	Georgia	-40,117	-2.1%
187	Mali	-40,951	+70.9%
188	Puerto Rico	-42,641	-3.7%
189	Iran	-47,322	+18.2%
190	El Salvador	-49,087	+2.9%
191	Cambodia	-54,554	-3.2%
192	Mozambique	-57,067	+9.6%
193	Kenya	-57,634	-34.3%
194	Venezuela	-57,818	-4.9%
195	Greece	-59,323	+9.2%
196	Myanmar	-62,863	-2.2%
197	Colombia	-64,789	-15.6%
198	Morocco	-67,096	-2.8%
199	Moldova	-77,571	+4.5%
200	Peru	-95,214	+19.9%
201	Central African Republic	-112,382	-0.6%
202	Mexico	-120,058	+6.6%
203	India	-151,372	+23.9%
204	Brazil	-157,228	+12.5%
205	Uganda	-176,579	-0.4%
206	Zimbabwe	-176,972	+0.1%
207	China	-188,951	-221%
208	Sudan	-194,001	+16.4%
209	Philippines	-218,439	-328.2%
210	Spain	-250,741	-63.4%
211	Côte d’Ivoire	-250,964	-7.8%
212	Nepal	-373,064	-0.4%
213	Bangladesh	-862,944	-4%
214	Pakistan	-1,906,319	-15.7%
215	Syria	-2,081,303	-108.3%

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About this ranking

Immigrants minus emigrants during the year, citizens and noncitizens together. A negative value means more people left than arrived.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

World Bank, World Development Indicators. Net migration (SM.POP.NETM). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.NETM. Retrieved 2026-10-11.

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Which country has the highest net migration?

The United States, with 1.66 million in 2013, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest net migration?

Syria, with -2.08 million in 2013.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Net migration (SM.POP.NETM). Retrieved 2026-10-11.

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