Countries by net migration

The United States had the highest net migration of 215 countries in 2015, at 1.72 million. Pakistan had the lowest, at -2.17 million. The median was -1,324 and the figure for the World was 0. Source: the World Bank.

Highest1,722,127United States

Lowest-2,172,162Pakistan

Median-1,324215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2015

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2015 persons	Change on 2014
1	United States	1,722,127	+3%
2	Germany	1,175,283	+98.4%
3	Türkiye	1,063,140	+2.9%
4	South Africa	641,150	+135.1%
5	Jordan	490,844	-22.8%
6	Saudi Arabia	465,292	-0.8%
7	Russia	384,756	+45.4%
8	United Kingdom	347,839	+13.6%
9	United Arab Emirates	342,468	-4.9%
10	South Korea	276,427	-10.3%
11	Canada	224,332	+16.3%
12	Australia	212,350	+6.1%
13	Tanzania	201,495	+1,055.7%
14	Malaysia	187,663	+17.4%
15	Qatar	177,467	-8.9%
16	Japan	168,896	+190.7%
17	Oman	133,842	+77.1%
18	Kuwait	129,695	+28.5%
19	Austria	115,175	+54.9%
20	Sweden	80,534	+3.7%
21	Angola	74,171	-12.3%
22	Switzerland	71,876	-8%
23	New Zealand	70,870	+22.2%
24	Sudan	66,476	-28.1%
25	Belgium	63,536	+69.6%
26	Ethiopia	62,785	-39.1%
27	Chile	55,689	+5.7%
28	Netherlands	55,585	+51.9%
29	Denmark	42,284	+55.2%
30	Cameroon	42,008	-56.5%
31	Singapore	41,852	+4.2%
32	Italy	39,389	-25.2%
33	Bahrain	36,809	-9.8%
34	Senegal	34,387	-4.6%
35	Thailand	32,500	-41.3%
36	Papua New Guinea	30,580	-6.9%
37	Norway	30,242	-21.5%
38	Israel	29,735	+17.5%
39	Belarus	18,088	+20.8%
40	Equatorial Guinea	17,697	-2%
41	Niger	17,051	+338.2%
42	Zambia	16,261	-1.9%
43	Ecuador	14,724	+547.8%
44	Hungary	13,856	+19.6%
45	Ireland	13,376	+2,885.7%
46	Namibia	12,755	+14.6%
47	Finland	12,655	-20.5%
48	Gabon	12,041	-27.3%
49	Luxembourg	11,377	+1.4%
50	Cyprus	11,277	-2.8%
51	Hong Kong	10,547	-48.4%
52	Turkmenistan	9,936	+14.3%
53	Malta	9,588	+4.3%
54	Maldives	9,324	+21.1%
55	Panama	8,648	+21.7%
56	Macao	7,533	+10.2%
57	Solomon Islands	5,853	+4.6%
58	Argentina	5,464	-5.7%
59	Czechia	5,037	-20.1%
60	Mongolia	4,307	+47.4%
61	Estonia	4,261	+732.2%
62	Poland	3,887	-29.6%
63	Benin	3,369	-8.1%
64	Slovakia	2,549	+320.1%
65	Peru	2,421	+104.8%
66	British Virgin Islands	1,904	+128%
67	Djibouti	1,723	-9.3%
68	Seychelles	1,719	-1.3%
69	Turks and Caicos Islands	1,658	+65.6%
70	Costa Rica	1,617	+1.8%
71	Belize	1,596	+9.6%
72	Iceland	1,499	+31.6%
73	Cayman Islands	1,107	+0.2%
74	Azerbaijan	1,073	0%
75	Bahamas	1,002	0%
76	Monaco	939	+2.5%
77	Curaçao	842	-20.8%
78	Slovenia	712	+1,117.1%
79	Sint Maarten	536	+1.1%
80	Côte d’Ivoire	522	+102.3%
81	Faroe Islands	499	+487.1%
82	Bhutan	450	-0.4%
83	Aruba	373	+12%
84	Brunei	356	+17.5%
85	San Marino	273	+268.9%
86	Gibraltar	171	-9.5%
87	Liechtenstein	163	+58.3%
88	Dominica	92	+121.3%
89	Antigua and Barbuda	44	-54.6%
90	Palau	-11	-57.1%
91	Timor-Leste	-20	+97.9%
92	Barbados	-65	0%
93	Saint Lucia	-69	+23.3%
94	Nauru	-86	-24.6%
95	Bermuda	-117	-18.2%
96	Tuvalu	-179	-7.8%
97	Grenada	-181	0%
98	Saint Kitts and Nevis	-202	0%
99	Greenland	-315	+55.1%
99	Isle of Man	-315	-0.3%
101	France	-345	-100.7%
102	Sierra Leone	-356	-173.4%
103	Trinidad and Tobago	-575	+28%
104	Saint Martin	-731	-10.6%
105	Suriname	-967	-0.8%
106	Kiribati	-1,022	+9.4%
107	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-1,124	+3.2%
108	Vanuatu	-1,324	-0.3%
109	American Samoa	-1,366	+0.1%
110	Guinea-Bissau	-1,393	0%
111	Micronesia	-1,413	+4.5%
112	Northern Mariana Islands	-1,530	+1.3%
113	São Tomé and Príncipe	-1,809	-0.4%
114	Andorra	-1,873	-8%
115	French Polynesia	-1,899	+2.8%
116	Marshall Islands	-1,964	-3%
117	Spain	-1,979	+98%
118	Kazakhstan	-2,011	+80.2%
119	U.S. Virgin Islands	-2,432	-86.6%
120	New Caledonia	-2,530	-501%
121	Madagascar	-2,594	-2.9%
122	Tonga	-2,610	+0.5%
123	Comoros	-2,815	-5.5%
124	Guam	-2,937	-0.3%
125	Mauritania	-3,019	-1.3%
126	Samoa	-3,074	+0.2%
127	North Korea	-3,208	-5.5%
128	Portugal	-3,209	+87.9%
129	Gambia	-3,224	-15.4%
130	Mauritius	-3,645	+1.2%
131	Uruguay	-4,157	+15.5%
132	Bulgaria	-4,227	-93.9%
133	Montenegro	-4,863	-11.6%
134	Vietnam	-4,888	+0.1%
135	Kyrgyzstan	-5,071	+46.3%
136	Cape Verde	-6,226	+5.4%
137	Malawi	-6,471	+37.3%
138	Honduras	-6,509	-3.4%
139	Guyana	-6,527	+2.7%
140	Lesotho	-7,087	-3.1%
141	Libya	-7,660	-346.4%
141	Tajikistan	-7,660	+45.1%
143	Botswana	-9,599	-7.9%
144	Yemen	-9,883	-162.7%
145	Jamaica	-10,335	0%
146	Fiji	-10,401	+0.9%
147	Bolivia	-10,525	+4.1%
148	Latvia	-10,826	-23%
149	Eswatini	-12,582	+1.1%
150	Laos	-12,991	+51.7%
151	Ghana	-13,306	-110.8%
152	Georgia	-13,321	+17%
153	Guinea	-15,117	+33.5%
154	Liberia	-15,182	+43.1%
155	Armenia	-15,225	+3.3%
156	Uzbekistan	-16,545	+18.8%
157	Paraguay	-16,834	+0.9%
158	Somalia	-17,178	-383.2%
159	Democratic Republic of the Congo	-17,711	-147.9%
160	Republic of the Congo	-18,207	+15.7%
161	Serbia	-18,789	+0.3%
162	Burkina Faso	-19,726	-9.7%
163	Albania	-20,500	+5.6%
164	Rwanda	-21,862	-12.1%
165	Ukraine	-21,992	+66.5%
166	Iraq	-22,338	-343.8%
167	Lithuania	-22,560	-82.1%
168	Palestine	-22,903	+15.4%
169	North Macedonia	-23,010	-4%
170	Nicaragua	-24,353	+4.8%
171	Cuba	-24,910	+36.8%
172	Tunisia	-25,229	+5.1%
173	Croatia	-27,501	-109.5%
174	Algeria	-27,638	+8.1%
175	Indonesia	-28,487	-1.8%
176	Sri Lanka	-29,797	+11.5%
177	Haiti	-32,669	-4.1%
178	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-33,948	+4.9%
179	Romania	-35,751	-0.9%
180	Dominican Republic	-36,375	+0.5%
181	Colombia	-41,123	+39.1%
182	Puerto Rico	-42,912	-2.3%
183	Greece	-43,462	+6.9%
184	Iran	-46,239	+17.5%
185	Guatemala	-48,179	-19.2%
186	Mali	-48,872	+2.4%
187	Chad	-48,918	-334.7%
188	El Salvador	-51,278	-4.4%
189	Togo	-51,459	-18%
190	Mozambique	-52,374	+2.3%
191	Eritrea	-52,965	+30%
192	Cambodia	-58,101	-2.8%
193	Moldova	-59,399	+11.6%
194	Uganda	-62,366	+32.4%
195	Central African Republic	-63,045	+63.8%
196	Venezuela	-77,417	-24%
197	Morocco	-81,248	-12.7%
198	Myanmar	-94,108	-25.6%
199	Kenya	-95,977	-32.5%
200	Nigeria	-116,162	-499.5%
201	South Sudan	-159,822	+66.1%
202	Zimbabwe	-162,220	+8.4%
203	Brazil	-173,611	-19.1%
204	Egypt	-193,298	-108.3%
205	Nepal	-221,062	+28.7%
206	Burundi	-236,207	-3,345.3%
207	Lebanon	-239,829	-179.6%
208	Afghanistan	-286,314	-222.4%
209	Mexico	-291,044	-27.2%
210	Philippines	-390,702	-98.8%
211	China	-646,941	-74.3%
212	India	-655,085	-188.2%
213	Syria	-827,496	+43.2%
214	Bangladesh	-909,223	-2.2%
215	Pakistan	-2,172,162	-6.6%

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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 1.72 million in 2015, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest net migration?

Pakistan, with -2.17 million in 2015.

Where does this ranking come from?

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