Countries by net migration
The United States had the highest net migration of 215 countries in 2019, at 1.77 million. Pakistan had the lowest, at -1.18 million. The median was -705 and the figure for the World was 0. Source: the World Bank.
Top 40 countries, 2019
Full ranking
| Rank | Countries | 2019 | Change on 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 1,774,500 | +0.5% |
| 2 | Syria | 500,985 | -2.6% |
| 3 | Spain | 464,783 | +37.7% |
| 4 | Colombia | 396,826 | -19.9% |
| 5 | Canada | 387,685 | -7.7% |
| 6 | Russia | 336,494 | -1% |
| 7 | South Africa | 331,124 | +4% |
| 8 | Germany | 319,082 | -21% |
| 9 | Japan | 318,190 | -0.8% |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 232,727 | -10.4% |
| 11 | Australia | 207,142 | -8.5% |
| 12 | Malaysia | 203,284 | -8.4% |
| 13 | Saudi Arabia | 191,582 | +119.4% |
| 14 | Nepal | 182,203 | +161.7% |
| 15 | Chile | 181,339 | -23.7% |
| 16 | South Korea | 128,622 | +8.8% |
| 17 | Netherlands | 109,003 | +25% |
| 18 | Uganda | 107,210 | +76.6% |
| 19 | Peru | 74,270 | -78.1% |
| 20 | Sweden | 72,619 | -17% |
| 21 | France | 71,972 | -45.9% |
| 22 | New Zealand | 69,770 | +18% |
| 23 | South Sudan | 65,198 | -58.6% |
| 24 | Portugal | 63,031 | +180.2% |
| 25 | Angola | 58,984 | -4.3% |
| 26 | Belgium | 58,469 | +15.5% |
| 27 | Ecuador | 54,921 | -42.5% |
| 28 | Somalia | 53,124 | +30.1% |
| 29 | Kyrgyzstan | 47,303 | +1,253.8% |
| 30 | Italy | 46,634 | -44.3% |
| 31 | Switzerland | 44,517 | +7.9% |
| 32 | Austria | 41,090 | +16.4% |
| 33 | Senegal | 38,386 | +14.4% |
| 34 | Greece | 36,762 | +104.9% |
| 35 | Hungary | 34,339 | +0.4% |
| 36 | Ireland | 29,663 | -11.2% |
| 37 | Norway | 25,707 | +39.2% |
| 38 | Papua New Guinea | 22,978 | -6.9% |
| 39 | Malta | 20,302 | +19.7% |
| 40 | Turkmenistan | 19,735 | +2.3% |
| 41 | Namibia | 19,676 | +9.8% |
| 42 | Zambia | 18,385 | -0.2% |
| 43 | Slovenia | 16,352 | +11.7% |
| 44 | Israel | 16,134 | +3.3% |
| 45 | Finland | 15,671 | +32.6% |
| 46 | Equatorial Guinea | 14,695 | -5.7% |
| 47 | Burundi | 14,253 | -79.1% |
| 48 | Lithuania | 10,665 | +408.3% |
| 49 | Panama | 10,623 | -4.6% |
| 49 | Puerto Rico | 10,623 | +3.1% |
| 51 | Qatar | 10,557 | -15.3% |
| 52 | Luxembourg | 10,503 | +3.5% |
| 53 | Cyprus | 9,983 | -3.2% |
| 54 | Maldives | 9,648 | +0.1% |
| 55 | Denmark | 9,488 | -49.8% |
| 56 | Afghanistan | 9,159 | +124.9% |
| 57 | Macao | 8,967 | +0.6% |
| 58 | Mongolia | 8,660 | +10.9% |
| 59 | Poland | 7,696 | +3,551.1% |
| 60 | Egypt | 7,050 | -66.1% |
| 61 | Czechia | 5,553 | -5.1% |
| 62 | Argentina | 5,397 | -6% |
| 63 | Estonia | 5,386 | -24% |
| 64 | Thailand | 5,221 | -52.5% |
| 65 | Iceland | 5,030 | -24.2% |
| 66 | Timor-Leste | 3,942 | +28.7% |
| 67 | Benin | 3,366 | -0.2% |
| 68 | Slovakia | 3,128 | -9.2% |
| 69 | Kazakhstan | 2,594 | +139% |
| 70 | Gabon | 2,233 | -22.6% |
| 71 | Yemen | 2,129 | +108.1% |
| 72 | Côte d’Ivoire | 2,043 | -62.1% |
| 73 | Seychelles | 1,770 | +2.1% |
| 74 | Costa Rica | 1,653 | -1.2% |
| 75 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 1,359 | -2.9% |
| 76 | Djibouti | 1,322 | -7.9% |
| 77 | Andorra | 1,245 | +8.9% |
| 78 | Bahamas | 1,002 | 0% |
| 79 | Singapore | 870 | -96% |
| 80 | Cayman Islands | 859 | -15% |
| 81 | Faroe Islands | 670 | -0.9% |
| 82 | Sint Maarten | 526 | -1.7% |
| 83 | Gibraltar | 475 | +7.5% |
| 84 | Brunei | 456 | +1.3% |
| 85 | Aruba | 420 | -2.6% |
| 86 | British Virgin Islands | 419 | -85.6% |
| 87 | Azerbaijan | 384 | +101% |
| 88 | Bhutan | 287 | 0% |
| 89 | Bermuda | 286 | -5.3% |
| 90 | Liechtenstein | 271 | +74.8% |
| 91 | Isle of Man | 237 | -10.9% |
| 92 | Suriname | 191 | +122.4% |
| 93 | San Marino | 187 | +8.7% |
| 94 | Kuwait | 181 | -99.9% |
| 95 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0 | |
| 95 | Saint Lucia | 0 | +100% |
| 97 | Palau | -46 | -31.4% |
| 98 | Barbados | -65 | 0% |
| 99 | Nauru | -171 | -30.5% |
| 100 | Grenada | -181 | 0% |
| 101 | Monaco | -198 | -119.8% |
| 102 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | -202 | 0% |
| 103 | Dominica | -228 | +1.3% |
| 104 | Greenland | -308 | +6.7% |
| 105 | Tuvalu | -343 | -4.3% |
| 106 | Belize | -606 | -424.1% |
| 107 | Vanuatu | -652 | -2.2% |
| 108 | Kiribati | -705 | +4.9% |
| 109 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | -982 | +4.3% |
| 110 | American Samoa | -1,212 | +3.5% |
| 111 | Libya | -1,352 | -123.1% |
| 112 | Micronesia | -1,360 | -6.2% |
| 113 | Guinea-Bissau | -1,395 | +0.1% |
| 114 | Northern Mariana Islands | -1,551 | -1.6% |
| 115 | São Tomé and Príncipe | -1,716 | +2.3% |
| 116 | Tonga | -1,778 | -3.2% |
| 117 | Malawi | -1,837 | +43.8% |
| 118 | Solomon Islands | -1,990 | -129.9% |
| 119 | Marshall Islands | -2,030 | +1.4% |
| 120 | Vietnam | -2,051 | -102.1% |
| 121 | Bulgaria | -2,156 | +44.3% |
| 122 | Sierra Leone | -2,238 | +18.4% |
| 123 | Samoa | -2,313 | +4.6% |
| 124 | New Caledonia | -2,335 | +11.9% |
| 125 | Saint Martin | -2,682 | -52% |
| 126 | U.S. Virgin Islands | -2,743 | 0% |
| 127 | French Polynesia | -2,816 | +25.9% |
| 128 | Uruguay | -2,899 | +2.2% |
| 129 | Comoros | -2,916 | 0% |
| 130 | Guam | -2,967 | +1.8% |
| 131 | Madagascar | -2,976 | -3.1% |
| 132 | Mauritania | -3,019 | -1.1% |
| 133 | North Korea | -3,142 | +2.6% |
| 134 | Guinea | -3,240 | +64.7% |
| 135 | Latvia | -3,416 | +31.3% |
| 136 | Cape Verde | -4,001 | +14.5% |
| 137 | Montenegro | -4,083 | +19.3% |
| 138 | Gambia | -4,186 | -6.1% |
| 139 | Mauritius | -5,202 | -2.3% |
| 140 | Georgia | -5,412 | -4.6% |
| 141 | Philippines | -6,208 | +96.2% |
| 142 | Republic of the Congo | -6,268 | +29.2% |
| 143 | Honduras | -6,546 | +3.2% |
| 144 | Lesotho | -6,896 | -0.1% |
| 145 | Ukraine | -6,908 | +78.6% |
| 146 | Hong Kong | -7,170 | -485.3% |
| 147 | Eswatini | -8,439 | +1.3% |
| 148 | Bolivia | -8,981 | +3.9% |
| 149 | Tajikistan | -9,041 | -47.9% |
| 150 | Uzbekistan | -9,341 | +18.9% |
| 151 | Curaçao | -9,595 | -137.5% |
| 152 | Laos | -10,305 | 0% |
| 153 | Jamaica | -10,335 | 0% |
| 154 | Ethiopia | -10,807 | -216.2% |
| 155 | Botswana | -11,770 | -1.3% |
| 156 | Fiji | -11,873 | -1.2% |
| 157 | Cameroon | -12,255 | -33.4% |
| 158 | Croatia | -13,239 | +47.1% |
| 159 | Armenia | -14,330 | -9.1% |
| 160 | Türkiye | -15,690 | -108.4% |
| 161 | Niger | -15,778 | -312% |
| 162 | Paraguay | -16,263 | +1.3% |
| 163 | Togo | -17,312 | +60.4% |
| 164 | Serbia | -18,891 | -0% |
| 165 | Trinidad and Tobago | -19,251 | -154.2% |
| 166 | Tunisia | -19,612 | +6.7% |
| 167 | Liberia | -19,678 | +15.2% |
| 168 | Nicaragua | -19,730 | +4.9% |
| 169 | Guyana | -20,603 | -168.2% |
| 170 | Ghana | -21,857 | -12.8% |
| 171 | Albania | -23,094 | -53.6% |
| 172 | Jordan | -23,156 | -172.2% |
| 173 | Cuba | -23,955 | -0.7% |
| 174 | North Macedonia | -24,204 | +2.7% |
| 175 | Rwanda | -24,492 | +3.3% |
| 176 | Palestine | -24,733 | +1.6% |
| 177 | Burkina Faso | -25,240 | -5.4% |
| 178 | Algeria | -27,786 | -2.4% |
| 179 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -27,841 | +4.5% |
| 180 | Romania | -27,909 | +15.5% |
| 181 | Sri Lanka | -28,426 | +0.6% |
| 182 | Chad | -29,451 | -163.1% |
| 183 | Eritrea | -29,818 | -39.3% |
| 184 | Indonesia | -30,421 | -1.7% |
| 185 | Bahrain | -31,967 | -23.1% |
| 186 | Iran | -32,794 | -17.3% |
| 187 | Belarus | -33,954 | -494.1% |
| 188 | Haiti | -34,612 | +1% |
| 189 | Dominican Republic | -35,797 | +0.4% |
| 190 | Central African Republic | -36,849 | +30.4% |
| 191 | Sudan | -39,491 | -131.5% |
| 192 | Moldova | -41,233 | -14.3% |
| 193 | Iraq | -43,919 | -378.4% |
| 194 | Mali | -44,373 | -9% |
| 195 | Mozambique | -49,080 | +2.3% |
| 196 | El Salvador | -55,144 | -1.8% |
| 197 | Cambodia | -57,268 | +33.9% |
| 198 | Guatemala | -57,746 | -2.2% |
| 199 | Kenya | -61,949 | +46.3% |
| 200 | Tanzania | -63,602 | -14.7% |
| 201 | Morocco | -91,217 | -3.5% |
| 202 | Nigeria | -99,722 | -30.2% |
| 203 | Myanmar | -100,783 | +12.1% |
| 204 | Zimbabwe | -103,107 | +12.4% |
| 205 | Oman | -117,480 | -123.2% |
| 206 | United Arab Emirates | -125,186 | -956.8% |
| 207 | Brazil | -129,216 | +43.9% |
| 208 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | -144,920 | -16.6% |
| 209 | Mexico | -169,628 | +3.3% |
| 210 | Lebanon | -266,992 | -2.8% |
| 211 | China | -656,091 | -231% |
| 212 | Venezuela | -975,534 | +28% |
| 213 | India | -978,969 | -66% |
| 214 | Bangladesh | -1,016,796 | +1.2% |
| 215 | Pakistan | -1,177,220 | +10.1% |
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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 1.77 million in 2019, according to the World Bank.
Which country has the lowest net migration?
Pakistan, with -1.18 million in 2019.
Where does this ranking come from?
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