Countries by net migration
The United States had the highest net migration of 215 countries in 2017, at 1.86 million. Pakistan had the lowest, at -1.57 million. The median was -181 and the figure for the World was 0. Source: the World Bank.
Top 40 countries, 2017
Full ranking
| Rank | Countries | 2017 | Change on 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 1,864,738 | -1.3% |
| 2 | Türkiye | 659,846 | +87.4% |
| 3 | Germany | 452,988 | -12.5% |
| 4 | Sudan | 441,623 | +421.2% |
| 5 | Colombia | 431,072 | +313% |
| 6 | Russia | 396,619 | -11.4% |
| 7 | Canada | 372,685 | +13.1% |
| 8 | South Africa | 343,146 | +139% |
| 9 | Japan | 322,564 | +2.5% |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 272,311 | -16.1% |
| 11 | Australia | 255,023 | +0.1% |
| 12 | Malaysia | 227,677 | +2.5% |
| 13 | Chile | 220,621 | +62.4% |
| 14 | Spain | 201,135 | +88.9% |
| 15 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 176,290 | -60% |
| 16 | Vietnam | 139,245 | -16.9% |
| 17 | Tanzania | 119,142 | -21.7% |
| 18 | Peru | 114,382 | +18.2% |
| 19 | South Korea | 104,029 | +13.6% |
| 20 | France | 102,984 | +562.4% |
| 21 | Sweden | 102,671 | -13.9% |
| 22 | Italy | 95,147 | +12.5% |
| 23 | Uganda | 92,879 | -24.7% |
| 24 | Kuwait | 92,717 | -12.4% |
| 25 | Netherlands | 86,332 | -2.7% |
| 26 | Nigeria | 78,685 | +4.5% |
| 27 | Angola | 77,731 | -15.2% |
| 28 | Ethiopia | 71,766 | -38% |
| 29 | New Zealand | 68,349 | -9.5% |
| 30 | Thailand | 66,805 | -40.9% |
| 31 | Ecuador | 53,707 | +51.5% |
| 32 | Qatar | 46,719 | -61% |
| 33 | Switzerland | 45,658 | -35.7% |
| 34 | Austria | 45,478 | -31.1% |
| 35 | Somalia | 38,067 | -69.3% |
| 36 | Belgium | 37,981 | +35.2% |
| 37 | Iran | 34,849 | -47.7% |
| 38 | United Arab Emirates | 34,155 | -82.5% |
| 39 | Senegal | 29,605 | +0.4% |
| 40 | Ireland | 28,883 | +52.3% |
| 41 | Papua New Guinea | 26,513 | -6.9% |
| 42 | Zambia | 25,789 | -0.3% |
| 43 | Denmark | 24,561 | -26.4% |
| 44 | Bahrain | 21,958 | -53.1% |
| 45 | Norway | 21,657 | -18% |
| 46 | Kazakhstan | 21,248 | +124.2% |
| 47 | Hungary | 20,200 | +29,605.9% |
| 48 | Chad | 16,916 | -21.5% |
| 49 | Turkmenistan | 16,678 | +24.8% |
| 50 | Equatorial Guinea | 16,399 | -4.1% |
| 51 | Namibia | 16,080 | +14.8% |
| 52 | Israel | 14,518 | -40.3% |
| 53 | Malta | 14,372 | +66.7% |
| 54 | Portugal | 13,979 | +1,903.7% |
| 55 | Finland | 13,356 | -22.9% |
| 56 | Jordan | 12,873 | -58.5% |
| 57 | Oman | 11,751 | -90% |
| 58 | Panama | 11,059 | +9.4% |
| 59 | Cyprus | 10,632 | -2.9% |
| 60 | Greece | 10,483 | -0% |
| 61 | Luxembourg | 9,643 | -24.4% |
| 62 | Maldives | 9,555 | +1.4% |
| 63 | Libya | 9,208 | +281.2% |
| 64 | Macao | 8,427 | +9.8% |
| 65 | Iceland | 8,348 | +102.2% |
| 66 | Hong Kong | 7,963 | -22.4% |
| 67 | Kyrgyzstan | 7,553 | +536.3% |
| 68 | Mongolia | 6,831 | +21.3% |
| 69 | Solomon Islands | 6,513 | +6% |
| 70 | Czechia | 5,747 | +5.2% |
| 71 | Estonia | 5,202 | +381.2% |
| 72 | Argentina | 4,931 | -5.4% |
| 73 | Gabon | 4,013 | -45.8% |
| 74 | Benin | 3,716 | -3.2% |
| 75 | Belarus | 3,337 | -59.7% |
| 76 | Slovakia | 3,279 | -6% |
| 77 | Belize | 1,705 | -48.5% |
| 78 | Seychelles | 1,693 | +0.7% |
| 79 | Costa Rica | 1,671 | +1.3% |
| 80 | Timor-Leste | 1,666 | +701% |
| 81 | Djibouti | 1,535 | -5.4% |
| 82 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1,445 | +1,780.2% |
| 83 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 1,421 | +8.6% |
| 84 | Slovenia | 1,359 | +13.7% |
| 85 | Andorra | 1,357 | -4.1% |
| 86 | Sierra Leone | 1,234 | -73.5% |
| 87 | Cayman Islands | 1,065 | -2.7% |
| 88 | Bahamas | 1,002 | 0% |
| 89 | Malawi | 982 | -72% |
| 90 | British Virgin Islands | 891 | +126% |
| 91 | Monaco | 798 | 0% |
| 92 | Faroe Islands | 634 | +17.2% |
| 93 | Sint Maarten | 545 | 0% |
| 94 | Curaçao | 537 | -16.7% |
| 95 | Brunei | 440 | +6% |
| 96 | Aruba | 434 | +7.2% |
| 97 | Gibraltar | 421 | +5% |
| 98 | Bhutan | 287 | -74.3% |
| 99 | Isle of Man | 284 | +151.3% |
| 100 | San Marino | 234 | -19.6% |
| 101 | Bermuda | 221 | |
| 102 | Liechtenstein | 206 | +227% |
| 103 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0 | |
| 104 | Palau | -33 | +5.7% |
| 105 | Saint Lucia | -38 | +33.3% |
| 106 | Barbados | -65 | 0% |
| 107 | Nauru | -115 | -9.5% |
| 108 | Grenada | -181 | 0% |
| 109 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | -202 | 0% |
| 110 | Dominica | -234 | +88.5% |
| 111 | Tuvalu | -246 | -23% |
| 112 | Greenland | -350 | -2.3% |
| 113 | Vanuatu | -610 | +50.6% |
| 114 | Kiribati | -750 | +0.8% |
| 115 | Côte d’Ivoire | -796 | -104.3% |
| 116 | Suriname | -935 | -3.2% |
| 117 | Saint Martin | -951 | -15.3% |
| 118 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | -1,057 | +2.9% |
| 119 | Micronesia | -1,281 | +4.8% |
| 120 | American Samoa | -1,305 | +3.3% |
| 121 | Guinea-Bissau | -1,398 | -0.4% |
| 122 | Northern Mariana Islands | -1,517 | 0% |
| 123 | Tonga | -1,642 | +36.6% |
| 124 | São Tomé and Príncipe | -1,779 | +0.8% |
| 125 | Marshall Islands | -2,040 | -1.8% |
| 126 | French Polynesia | -2,183 | -21.1% |
| 127 | Samoa | -2,539 | +15.6% |
| 128 | New Caledonia | -2,614 | -0.3% |
| 129 | U.S. Virgin Islands | -2,691 | -3.9% |
| 130 | Madagascar | -2,784 | -3.6% |
| 131 | Comoros | -2,920 | +0.6% |
| 132 | Mauritania | -3,001 | +0.2% |
| 133 | Uruguay | -3,091 | +11.8% |
| 134 | Guam | -3,121 | +2.8% |
| 135 | North Korea | -3,224 | -0.1% |
| 136 | Gambia | -3,696 | -6% |
| 137 | Tajikistan | -4,093 | +50.1% |
| 138 | Ghana | -4,913 | -170.1% |
| 139 | Montenegro | -4,948 | +6.2% |
| 140 | Mauritius | -5,322 | -18.7% |
| 141 | Cape Verde | -5,550 | +7.6% |
| 142 | Guyana | -6,107 | +3.2% |
| 143 | Bulgaria | -6,109 | +35.6% |
| 144 | Honduras | -6,778 | -1.5% |
| 145 | Niger | -6,830 | -146% |
| 146 | Lesotho | -6,850 | -1.2% |
| 147 | Latvia | -7,867 | +36.2% |
| 148 | Georgia | -7,889 | +25.5% |
| 149 | Eswatini | -8,658 | +30.6% |
| 150 | Singapore | -8,880 | -164.6% |
| 151 | Bolivia | -9,669 | +4% |
| 152 | Jamaica | -10,335 | 0% |
| 153 | Laos | -10,400 | +8.8% |
| 154 | Botswana | -10,916 | -6.1% |
| 155 | Azerbaijan | -11,324 | -342.4% |
| 156 | Republic of the Congo | -11,601 | +21.5% |
| 157 | Fiji | -11,607 | -11.2% |
| 158 | Yemen | -12,086 | -86.2% |
| 159 | Uzbekistan | -13,352 | +10% |
| 160 | Guinea | -13,718 | +3.3% |
| 161 | Armenia | -14,180 | +3.5% |
| 162 | Algeria | -14,403 | -123.7% |
| 163 | Burkina Faso | -14,780 | -94.5% |
| 164 | Albania | -14,901 | -59.4% |
| 165 | Paraguay | -16,630 | +0.6% |
| 166 | Serbia | -18,651 | -1.8% |
| 167 | Poland | -21,535 | -279.5% |
| 168 | Nicaragua | -21,849 | +5.3% |
| 169 | Iraq | -21,998 | +80.7% |
| 170 | Sri Lanka | -22,324 | -21.4% |
| 171 | Tunisia | -22,365 | +6.1% |
| 172 | Cuba | -23,394 | +3.1% |
| 173 | North Macedonia | -24,227 | -0.3% |
| 174 | Liberia | -24,807 | +7.4% |
| 175 | Mozambique | -25,043 | +42.3% |
| 176 | Palestine | -25,452 | -11.8% |
| 177 | Rwanda | -25,634 | -4.7% |
| 178 | Lithuania | -28,027 | +8.4% |
| 179 | Indonesia | -29,467 | -1.6% |
| 180 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -30,650 | +4.7% |
| 181 | Romania | -33,081 | -0% |
| 182 | Mali | -33,942 | -12.2% |
| 183 | Haiti | -34,742 | -2.5% |
| 184 | Dominican Republic | -36,069 | +0.4% |
| 185 | Ukraine | -36,155 | -15.4% |
| 186 | Cameroon | -37,912 | -386% |
| 187 | Eritrea | -38,579 | +30.4% |
| 188 | Guatemala | -42,779 | -38.1% |
| 189 | Moldova | -43,871 | +15% |
| 190 | Croatia | -44,557 | -38.6% |
| 191 | El Salvador | -50,608 | -6.6% |
| 192 | Central African Republic | -58,584 | -11.4% |
| 193 | Morocco | -60,472 | -53.9% |
| 194 | Burundi | -68,349 | +37.5% |
| 195 | Kenya | -68,702 | -131.1% |
| 196 | Togo | -69,512 | -16.1% |
| 197 | Afghanistan | -71,491 | +50% |
| 198 | Cambodia | -74,362 | -44.9% |
| 199 | Egypt | -80,000 | -11.7% |
| 200 | China | -94,625 | +38.2% |
| 201 | Myanmar | -105,415 | -19.9% |
| 202 | Zimbabwe | -128,241 | +8.5% |
| 203 | Puerto Rico | -149,999 | -263.7% |
| 204 | Brazil | -156,296 | -68.1% |
| 205 | Mexico | -227,499 | +25.3% |
| 206 | India | -251,642 | -409.7% |
| 207 | Lebanon | -253,664 | -2.3% |
| 208 | Philippines | -263,593 | +14.8% |
| 209 | Syria | -287,501 | -131.7% |
| 210 | Nepal | -368,787 | -7.9% |
| 211 | South Sudan | -670,477 | -2.5% |
| 212 | Venezuela | -817,376 | -188.6% |
| 213 | Saudi Arabia | -920,812 | -3,310.8% |
| 214 | Bangladesh | -1,037,176 | -12.9% |
| 215 | Pakistan | -1,574,585 | +31.3% |
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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.
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World Bank, World Development Indicators. Net migration (SM.POP.NETM). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.NETM. Retrieved 2026-10-11.Use this data in your AI agent
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Which country has the highest net migration?
The United States, with 1.86 million in 2017, according to the World Bank.
Which country has the lowest net migration?
Pakistan, with -1.57 million in 2017.
Where does this ranking come from?
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