Countries by net migration
The United States had the highest net migration of 215 countries in 2014, at 1.67 million. Pakistan had the lowest, at -2.04 million. The median was -959 and the figure for the World was 0. Source: the World Bank.
Top 40 countries, 2014
Full ranking
| Rank | Countries | 2014 | Change on 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 1,672,598 | +0.5% |
| 2 | Türkiye | 1,033,384 | +135.6% |
| 3 | Jordan | 635,528 | +4.2% |
| 4 | Germany | 592,338 | +28.1% |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia | 469,144 | -3.4% |
| 6 | United Arab Emirates | 360,174 | +29% |
| 7 | South Korea | 308,037 | +2% |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 306,091 | +29% |
| 9 | Lebanon | 301,111 | -58.9% |
| 10 | South Africa | 272,697 | +17.4% |
| 11 | Russia | 264,698 | -8.7% |
| 12 | Afghanistan | 233,913 | +1,191% |
| 13 | Australia | 200,177 | -7.2% |
| 14 | Qatar | 194,712 | +45.8% |
| 15 | Canada | 192,884 | -19.6% |
| 16 | Malaysia | 159,791 | +6.8% |
| 17 | Ethiopia | 103,122 | +27.4% |
| 18 | Kuwait | 100,891 | -6.4% |
| 19 | Cameroon | 96,599 | +1,500% |
| 20 | Sudan | 92,504 | +147.7% |
| 21 | Angola | 84,535 | -32.1% |
| 22 | Switzerland | 78,122 | -6.8% |
| 23 | Sweden | 77,654 | +16.3% |
| 24 | Oman | 75,557 | -33.3% |
| 25 | Austria | 74,375 | +31.1% |
| 26 | Japan | 58,109 | -12.6% |
| 27 | New Zealand | 57,974 | +119.7% |
| 28 | Thailand | 55,358 | -17.9% |
| 29 | Chile | 52,702 | +44.3% |
| 30 | Italy | 52,679 | -66.7% |
| 31 | France | 52,342 | -55% |
| 32 | Bahrain | 40,815 | +14.7% |
| 33 | Singapore | 40,154 | -23% |
| 34 | Norway | 38,522 | -5.3% |
| 35 | Belgium | 37,472 | +33.5% |
| 36 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 36,966 | -69.5% |
| 37 | Netherlands | 36,591 | +83.2% |
| 38 | Senegal | 36,030 | +3.3% |
| 39 | Papua New Guinea | 32,840 | -6.9% |
| 40 | Denmark | 27,242 | +27.5% |
| 41 | Israel | 25,303 | +48.2% |
| 42 | Chad | 20,842 | -59.8% |
| 43 | Hong Kong | 20,454 | -14.2% |
| 44 | Equatorial Guinea | 18,058 | -0.3% |
| 45 | Zambia | 16,574 | +6.6% |
| 46 | Gabon | 16,565 | -15.4% |
| 47 | Finland | 15,915 | -12.4% |
| 48 | Yemen | 15,764 | +176.7% |
| 49 | Belarus | 14,979 | +42% |
| 50 | Cyprus | 11,599 | -2.6% |
| 51 | Hungary | 11,581 | +105.5% |
| 52 | Luxembourg | 11,217 | +6.5% |
| 53 | Namibia | 11,134 | +3.6% |
| 54 | Malta | 9,192 | +967.6% |
| 55 | Turkmenistan | 8,696 | +19.3% |
| 56 | Maldives | 7,700 | +10.6% |
| 57 | Panama | 7,105 | +19.9% |
| 58 | Macao | 6,837 | -4.4% |
| 59 | Czechia | 6,303 | +16.1% |
| 60 | Somalia | 6,065 | -70.7% |
| 61 | Argentina | 5,794 | +9.8% |
| 62 | Solomon Islands | 5,598 | -0.6% |
| 63 | Poland | 5,525 | -55.5% |
| 64 | Niger | 3,891 | +253% |
| 65 | Benin | 3,667 | +513.4% |
| 66 | Mongolia | 2,921 | +94.1% |
| 67 | Ecuador | 2,273 | +136.8% |
| 68 | Djibouti | 1,900 | -6.5% |
| 69 | Seychelles | 1,742 | +1.5% |
| 70 | Costa Rica | 1,589 | +0.6% |
| 71 | Belize | 1,456 | -3.3% |
| 72 | Iceland | 1,139 | -31.6% |
| 73 | Cayman Islands | 1,105 | +2.6% |
| 74 | Azerbaijan | 1,073 | -53.2% |
| 75 | Curaçao | 1,063 | -17.1% |
| 76 | Bahamas | 1,002 | 0% |
| 77 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 1,001 | -24.9% |
| 78 | Monaco | 916 | -1.1% |
| 79 | British Virgin Islands | 835 | -38.9% |
| 80 | New Caledonia | 631 | -71.3% |
| 81 | Sint Maarten | 530 | 0% |
| 82 | Sierra Leone | 485 | -82.5% |
| 83 | Bhutan | 452 | +46.3% |
| 84 | Ireland | 448 | +103.6% |
| 85 | Aruba | 333 | +5.7% |
| 86 | Brunei | 303 | +6.3% |
| 87 | Gibraltar | 189 | -9.6% |
| 88 | Liechtenstein | 103 | -42.8% |
| 89 | Antigua and Barbuda | 97 | -33.1% |
| 90 | Faroe Islands | 85 | +77.1% |
| 91 | San Marino | 74 | +29.8% |
| 92 | Palau | -7 | +75% |
| 93 | Barbados | -65 | 0% |
| 94 | Nauru | -69 | -30.2% |
| 95 | Slovenia | -70 | -111% |
| 96 | Saint Lucia | -90 | +21.1% |
| 97 | Bermuda | -99 | +20.8% |
| 98 | Tuvalu | -166 | -3.8% |
| 99 | Grenada | -181 | 0% |
| 100 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | -202 | 0% |
| 101 | Isle of Man | -314 | -7.9% |
| 102 | Dominica | -431 | -131.3% |
| 103 | Saint Martin | -661 | -21.3% |
| 104 | Estonia | -674 | +74.9% |
| 105 | Greenland | -702 | -7.5% |
| 106 | Trinidad and Tobago | -799 | -0.4% |
| 107 | Timor-Leste | -958 | +20.6% |
| 108 | Suriname | -959 | +0.9% |
| 109 | Kiribati | -1,128 | -2.5% |
| 110 | Slovakia | -1,158 | +1.9% |
| 111 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | -1,161 | +2.4% |
| 112 | U.S. Virgin Islands | -1,303 | +2.2% |
| 113 | Vanuatu | -1,320 | +1.7% |
| 114 | American Samoa | -1,367 | -1% |
| 115 | Guinea-Bissau | -1,393 | +0.1% |
| 116 | Micronesia | -1,480 | +5.1% |
| 117 | Northern Mariana Islands | -1,550 | -0.2% |
| 118 | Libya | -1,716 | -106.7% |
| 119 | Andorra | -1,734 | -5.6% |
| 120 | São Tomé and Príncipe | -1,801 | -0.8% |
| 121 | Marshall Islands | -1,906 | -4.4% |
| 122 | French Polynesia | -1,953 | -12% |
| 123 | Bulgaria | -2,180 | -64.7% |
| 124 | Madagascar | -2,522 | -3.1% |
| 125 | Tonga | -2,622 | +0.6% |
| 126 | Comoros | -2,667 | -12.8% |
| 127 | Gambia | -2,793 | -12.8% |
| 128 | Guam | -2,929 | -4.3% |
| 129 | Mauritania | -2,980 | +0.2% |
| 130 | North Korea | -3,042 | -3.7% |
| 131 | Samoa | -3,081 | +0.8% |
| 132 | Mauritius | -3,691 | -2% |
| 133 | Montenegro | -4,357 | -75.8% |
| 134 | Vietnam | -4,894 | +1.7% |
| 135 | Uruguay | -4,919 | +12.9% |
| 136 | Iraq | -5,033 | -101.1% |
| 137 | Honduras | -6,293 | -3.3% |
| 138 | Ghana | -6,312 | -165.5% |
| 139 | Cape Verde | -6,578 | +0.7% |
| 140 | Guyana | -6,710 | +2.9% |
| 141 | Burundi | -6,856 | -200% |
| 142 | Lesotho | -6,877 | -3.3% |
| 143 | Latvia | -8,799 | +38.8% |
| 144 | Botswana | -8,893 | -13.5% |
| 145 | Kyrgyzstan | -9,443 | +2.3% |
| 146 | Kazakhstan | -10,170 | -159.1% |
| 147 | Malawi | -10,317 | +20.2% |
| 148 | Jamaica | -10,335 | 0% |
| 149 | Fiji | -10,493 | +2% |
| 150 | Bolivia | -10,971 | +3.5% |
| 151 | Lithuania | -12,387 | +26.1% |
| 152 | Eswatini | -12,724 | -0.5% |
| 153 | Croatia | -13,127 | -110.2% |
| 154 | Tajikistan | -13,962 | +14.7% |
| 155 | Armenia | -15,745 | +3.2% |
| 156 | Georgia | -16,047 | +60% |
| 157 | Paraguay | -16,989 | +1.4% |
| 158 | Burkina Faso | -17,984 | +45.9% |
| 159 | Serbia | -18,846 | -5.5% |
| 160 | Nigeria | -19,376 | -148.2% |
| 161 | Rwanda | -19,505 | -16.2% |
| 162 | Uzbekistan | -20,381 | -0% |
| 163 | Tanzania | -21,083 | -1,798.9% |
| 164 | Republic of the Congo | -21,598 | +12.2% |
| 165 | Albania | -21,706 | -5% |
| 166 | North Macedonia | -22,132 | -9% |
| 167 | Guinea | -22,741 | +21.9% |
| 168 | Côte d’Ivoire | -23,011 | +90.8% |
| 169 | Nicaragua | -25,570 | +3.8% |
| 170 | Portugal | -26,447 | +27.2% |
| 171 | Tunisia | -26,586 | -56.2% |
| 172 | Liberia | -26,690 | -21.3% |
| 173 | Laos | -26,881 | +2.2% |
| 174 | Palestine | -27,077 | -0.4% |
| 175 | Indonesia | -27,988 | -1.7% |
| 176 | Algeria | -30,064 | -0% |
| 177 | Haiti | -31,390 | -3.5% |
| 178 | Sri Lanka | -33,672 | +10.8% |
| 179 | Romania | -35,448 | -1.5% |
| 180 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -35,683 | +3.6% |
| 181 | Dominican Republic | -36,543 | +0.4% |
| 182 | Cuba | -39,426 | -4.8% |
| 183 | Guatemala | -40,409 | -13.2% |
| 184 | Puerto Rico | -41,932 | +1.7% |
| 185 | Togo | -43,591 | -23.3% |
| 186 | Greece | -46,678 | +21.3% |
| 187 | El Salvador | -49,126 | -0.1% |
| 188 | Mali | -50,068 | -22.3% |
| 189 | Peru | -50,383 | +47.1% |
| 190 | Mozambique | -53,625 | +6% |
| 191 | Iran | -56,042 | -18.4% |
| 192 | Cambodia | -56,536 | -3.6% |
| 193 | Venezuela | -62,437 | -8% |
| 194 | Ukraine | -65,678 | -345.2% |
| 195 | Moldova | -67,175 | +13.4% |
| 196 | Colombia | -67,522 | -4.2% |
| 197 | Morocco | -72,065 | -7.4% |
| 198 | Kenya | -72,415 | -25.6% |
| 199 | Myanmar | -74,901 | -19.1% |
| 200 | Eritrea | -75,696 | -122.8% |
| 201 | Uganda | -92,273 | +47.7% |
| 202 | Egypt | -92,801 | -171.2% |
| 203 | Spain | -97,870 | +61% |
| 204 | Brazil | -145,732 | +7.3% |
| 205 | Central African Republic | -174,051 | -54.9% |
| 206 | Zimbabwe | -177,029 | -0% |
| 207 | Philippines | -196,524 | +10% |
| 208 | India | -227,263 | -50.1% |
| 209 | Mexico | -228,816 | -90.6% |
| 210 | Nepal | -310,156 | +16.9% |
| 211 | China | -371,108 | -96.4% |
| 212 | South Sudan | -471,523 | -821.7% |
| 213 | Bangladesh | -889,222 | -3% |
| 214 | Syria | -1,457,679 | +30% |
| 215 | Pakistan | -2,037,920 | -6.9% |
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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.
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Which country has the highest net migration?
The United States, with 1.67 million in 2014, according to the World Bank.
Which country has the lowest net migration?
Pakistan, with -2.04 million in 2014.
Where does this ranking come from?
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