Countries by net migration

The United States had the highest net migration of 215 countries in 2018, at 1.76 million. Venezuela had the lowest, at -1.36 million. The median was -202 and the figure for the World was 0. Source: the World Bank.

Highest1,764,961United States

Lowest-1,355,602Venezuela

Median-202215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2018

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2018 persons	Change on 2017
1	United States	1,764,961	-5.4%
2	Syria	514,102	+278.8%
3	Colombia	495,524	+15%
4	Canada	420,224	+12.8%
5	Germany	403,908	-10.8%
6	Russia	339,972	-14.3%
7	Peru	339,067	+196.4%
8	Spain	337,467	+67.8%
9	Japan	320,601	-0.6%
10	South Africa	318,260	-7.3%
11	United Kingdom	259,744	-4.6%
12	Chile	237,807	+7.8%
13	Australia	226,412	-11.2%
14	Malaysia	221,965	-2.5%
15	Türkiye	187,570	-71.6%
16	South Sudan	157,408	+123.5%
17	Kuwait	145,973	+57.4%
18	France	132,925	+29.1%
19	Sudan	125,499	-71.6%
20	South Korea	118,220	+13.6%
21	Vietnam	96,650	-30.6%
22	Ecuador	95,482	+77.8%
23	Sweden	87,517	-14.8%
24	Netherlands	87,197	+1%
25	Italy	83,686	-12%
26	Burundi	68,141	+199.7%
27	Angola	61,632	-20.7%
28	Uganda	60,724	-34.6%
29	New Zealand	59,139	-13.5%
30	Belgium	50,604	+33.2%
31	Chad	46,661	+175.8%
32	Switzerland	41,253	-9.6%
33	Somalia	40,844	+7.3%
34	Trinidad and Tobago	35,502	+2,356.9%
35	Austria	35,296	-22.4%
36	Hungary	34,190	+69.3%
37	Senegal	33,567	+13.4%
38	Ireland	33,387	+15.6%
39	Jordan	32,062	+149.1%
40	Guyana	30,213	+594.7%
41	Curaçao	25,592	+4,665.7%
42	Papua New Guinea	24,684	-6.9%
43	Portugal	22,495	+60.9%
44	Singapore	21,820	+345.7%
45	Egypt	20,788	+126%
46	Turkmenistan	19,293	+15.7%
47	Denmark	18,919	-23%
48	Norway	18,473	-14.7%
49	Zambia	18,431	-28.5%
50	Greece	17,938	+71.1%
51	Namibia	17,920	+11.4%
52	Malta	16,961	+18%
53	Iraq	15,775	+171.7%
54	Israel	15,615	+7.6%
55	Equatorial Guinea	15,581	-5%
56	Slovenia	14,640	+977.3%
57	United Arab Emirates	14,611	-57.2%
58	Qatar	12,465	-73.3%
59	Finland	11,822	-11.5%
60	Panama	11,130	+0.6%
61	Thailand	10,984	-83.6%
62	Cyprus	10,311	-3%
63	Puerto Rico	10,304	+106.9%
64	Luxembourg	10,145	+5.2%
65	Maldives	9,637	+0.9%
66	Ethiopia	9,302	-87%
67	Macao	8,917	+5.8%
68	Belarus	8,615	+158.2%
69	Mongolia	7,811	+14.3%
70	Estonia	7,089	+36.3%
71	Solomon Islands	6,653	+2.1%
72	Iceland	6,638	-20.5%
73	Czechia	5,849	+1.8%
74	Libya	5,841	-36.6%
75	Argentina	5,742	+16.4%
76	Côte d’Ivoire	5,395	+777.8%
77	Kyrgyzstan	3,494	-53.7%
78	Slovakia	3,446	+5.1%
79	Benin	3,372	-9.3%
80	Timor-Leste	3,062	+83.8%
81	British Virgin Islands	2,913	+226.9%
82	Gabon	2,886	-28.1%
83	Seychelles	1,733	+2.4%
84	Costa Rica	1,673	+0.1%
85	Djibouti	1,435	-6.5%
86	Turks and Caicos Islands	1,400	-1.5%
87	Andorra	1,143	-15.8%
88	Cayman Islands	1,011	-5.1%
89	Bahamas	1,002	0%
90	Monaco	999	+25.2%
91	Faroe Islands	676	+6.6%
92	Sint Maarten	535	-1.8%
93	Brunei	450	+2.3%
94	Gibraltar	442	+5%
95	Aruba	431	-0.7%
96	Bermuda	302	+36.7%
97	Bhutan	287	0%
98	Isle of Man	266	-6.3%
99	Belize	187	-89%
100	San Marino	172	-26.5%
101	Liechtenstein	155	-24.8%
102	Antigua and Barbuda	0	n/a
103	Saint Lucia	-18	+52.6%
104	Palau	-35	-6.1%
105	Barbados	-65	0%
106	Nauru	-131	-13.9%
107	Grenada	-181	0%
108	Saint Kitts and Nevis	-202	0%
109	Poland	-223	+99%
110	Dominica	-231	+1.3%
111	Tuvalu	-329	-33.7%
112	Greenland	-330	+5.7%
113	Vanuatu	-638	-4.6%
114	Kiribati	-741	+1.2%
115	Suriname	-851	+9%
116	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-1,026	+2.9%
117	Hong Kong	-1,225	-115.4%
118	American Samoa	-1,256	+3.8%
119	Micronesia	-1,281	0%
120	Guinea-Bissau	-1,396	+0.1%
121	Northern Mariana Islands	-1,527	-0.7%
122	Tonga	-1,723	-4.9%
123	São Tomé and Príncipe	-1,757	+1.2%
124	Saint Martin	-1,764	-85.5%
125	Marshall Islands	-2,058	-0.9%
126	Samoa	-2,425	+4.5%
127	New Caledonia	-2,650	-1.4%
128	Sierra Leone	-2,741	-322.1%
129	U.S. Virgin Islands	-2,743	-1.9%
130	Madagascar	-2,887	-3.7%
131	Comoros	-2,917	+0.1%
132	Uruguay	-2,963	+4.1%
133	Mauritania	-2,987	+0.5%
134	Guam	-3,021	+3.2%
135	North Korea	-3,225	-0%
136	Malawi	-3,267	-432.7%
137	Lithuania	-3,459	+87.7%
138	French Polynesia	-3,802	-74.2%
139	Niger	-3,830	+43.9%
140	Bulgaria	-3,873	+36.6%
141	Gambia	-3,944	-6.7%
142	Cape Verde	-4,679	+15.7%
143	Latvia	-4,972	+36.8%
144	Montenegro	-5,058	-2.2%
145	Mauritius	-5,084	+4.5%
146	Georgia	-5,176	+34.4%
147	Tajikistan	-6,111	-49.3%
148	Kazakhstan	-6,644	-131.3%
149	Honduras	-6,764	+0.2%
150	Lesotho	-6,892	-0.6%
151	Eswatini	-8,546	+1.3%
152	Republic of the Congo	-8,856	+23.7%
153	Cameroon	-9,184	+75.8%
154	Guinea	-9,187	+33%
155	Bolivia	-9,344	+3.4%
156	Laos	-10,305	+0.9%
157	Jamaica	-10,335	0%
158	Uzbekistan	-11,516	+13.8%
159	Botswana	-11,623	-6.5%
160	Fiji	-11,738	-1.1%
161	Armenia	-13,129	+7.4%
162	Albania	-15,032	-0.9%
163	Paraguay	-16,472	+1%
164	Serbia	-18,883	-1.2%
165	Ghana	-19,375	-294.4%
166	Nicaragua	-20,742	+5.1%
167	Tunisia	-21,012	+6%
168	Eritrea	-21,403	+44.5%
169	Liberia	-23,199	+6.5%
170	Cuba	-23,779	-1.6%
171	Burkina Faso	-23,938	-62%
172	North Macedonia	-24,878	-2.7%
173	Croatia	-25,016	+43.9%
174	Palestine	-25,141	+1.2%
175	Rwanda	-25,323	+1.2%
176	Bahrain	-25,978	-218.3%
177	Yemen	-26,335	-117.9%
178	Algeria	-27,146	-88.5%
179	Iran	-27,946	-180.2%
180	Sri Lanka	-28,607	-28.1%
181	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-29,147	+4.9%
182	Indonesia	-29,911	-1.5%
183	Ukraine	-32,220	+10.9%
184	Romania	-33,018	+0.2%
185	Haiti	-34,976	-0.7%
186	Dominican Republic	-35,934	+0.4%
187	Moldova	-36,085	+17.7%
188	Afghanistan	-36,753	+48.6%
189	Azerbaijan	-37,559	-231.7%
190	Mali	-40,710	-19.9%
191	Togo	-43,718	+37.1%
192	Mozambique	-50,224	-100.6%
193	Oman	-52,630	-547.9%
194	Central African Republic	-52,954	+9.6%
195	El Salvador	-54,163	-7%
196	Tanzania	-55,444	-146.5%
197	Guatemala	-56,487	-32%
198	Nigeria	-76,565	-197.3%
199	Cambodia	-86,702	-16.6%
200	Morocco	-88,159	-45.8%
201	Myanmar	-114,598	-8.7%
202	Kenya	-115,436	-68%
203	Zimbabwe	-117,758	+8.2%
204	Democratic Republic of the Congo	-124,246	-170.5%
205	Philippines	-163,602	+37.9%
206	Mexico	-175,356	+22.9%
207	China	-198,206	-109.5%
208	Brazil	-230,334	-47.4%
209	Lebanon	-259,700	-2.4%
210	Nepal	-295,151	+20%
211	India	-589,794	-134.4%
212	Saudi Arabia	-988,751	-7.4%
213	Bangladesh	-1,029,069	+0.8%
214	Pakistan	-1,309,611	+16.8%
215	Venezuela	-1,355,602	-65.8%

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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 1.76 million in 2018, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest net migration?

Venezuela, with -1.36 million in 2018.

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