Countries by net migration

The United States had the highest net migration of 215 countries in 2021, at 674,787. Bangladesh had the lowest, at -994,722. The median was -368 and the figure for the World was 0. Source: the World Bank.

Highest674,787United States

Lowest-994,722Bangladesh

Median-368215 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2021

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2021 persons	Change on 2020
1	United States	674,787	+104.6%
2	United Kingdom	462,967	+221%
3	South Africa	458,246	+23.9%
4	United Arab Emirates	421,663	+355.6%
5	Iran	334,967	+285.4%
6	Russia	314,112	-6%
7	Germany	310,264	+52.5%
8	Syria	211,220	-21.5%
9	Colombia	199,070	-12.4%
10	Canada	198,867	-22.5%
11	Malaysia	188,506	+85%
12	Italy	157,327	+84.5%
13	Spain	144,385	-39%
14	France	131,465	-9.7%
15	Nepal	130,001	-19.8%
16	Australia	116,768	+162.7%
17	Netherlands	106,416	+57.4%
18	Chad	74,509	+103.5%
19	Portugal	69,606	+28.7%
20	Chile	65,480	+151.4%
21	Austria	52,150	+31.7%
22	Sweden	51,947	+39.3%
23	Switzerland	50,665	-8.7%
24	Kyrgyzstan	46,208	-15.5%
25	Uganda	43,464	0%
26	Peru	41,868	-24.4%
27	Somalia	35,506	-54%
28	Sudan	31,664	+148%
29	Namibia	31,327	+15.8%
30	Angola	29,094	+285%
31	Ireland	27,419	+74.1%
32	Denmark	26,887	+147.8%
33	Senegal	25,519	-24.6%
34	Qatar	24,501	+148.6%
35	Belgium	24,017	-45.1%
36	Finland	22,484	+28.5%
37	Hungary	20,372	+122.7%
38	Türkiye	20,283	-46.5%
39	Norway	19,804	+75.6%
40	Kuwait	19,678	+111.7%
41	Lithuania	19,657	-1.1%
42	Turkmenistan	17,617	-11.5%
43	Iraq	17,474	-41.5%
44	Israel	16,859	+1.7%
45	Bahrain	11,882	+335.4%
46	Bulgaria	11,756	-61%
47	Papua New Guinea	10,703	0%
48	Maldives	9,412	-2.4%
49	Cyprus	9,341	-3.2%
50	Luxembourg	8,724	+25.2%
51	Macao	8,572	-3.1%
52	Zambia	8,143	-0.2%
53	Estonia	7,043	+90.7%
54	Jordan	6,573	-2.6%
55	Equatorial Guinea	6,493	n/a
56	Egypt	6,161	+2.4%
57	Trinidad and Tobago	5,749	+1,246.4%
58	Panama	5,473	0%
59	Iceland	4,911	+96.6%
60	Malta	4,638	-32.8%
61	Czechia	4,111	-5.2%
62	Timor-Leste	3,111	-18%
63	Slovenia	2,477	-91.3%
64	Poland	2,251	-42.6%
65	Seychelles	2,086	+20.9%
66	Benin	1,729	0%
67	Andorra	1,514	+164.7%
68	Gabon	1,503	-0.2%
69	Solomon Islands	1,499	-3.7%
70	Côte d’Ivoire	1,322	+110.7%
71	Djibouti	1,300	0%
72	Azerbaijan	1,073	0%
73	Costa Rica	1,018	-1.1%
74	Monaco	999	0%
75	Cayman Islands	965	+19.1%
76	Turks and Caicos Islands	682	0%
77	Faroe Islands	662	+20.8%
78	Gibraltar	561	+9.1%
79	Aruba	503	n/a
79	Curaçao	503	-49.3%
81	Sint Maarten	498	-4%
82	Bahamas	481	n/a
83	British Virgin Islands	326	-63.3%
84	Argentina	314	+7.5%
85	Bhutan	287	0%
86	Bermuda	286	0%
87	Isle of Man	192	-12.3%
88	Liechtenstein	187	-30.5%
89	Antigua and Barbuda	0	n/a
89	Brunei	0	-100%
89	Cape Verde	0	+100%
89	Mongolia	0	n/a
89	Saint Lucia	0	n/a
94	Palau	-21	n/a
95	Barbados	-28	n/a
96	Grenada	-69	n/a
97	Saint Kitts and Nevis	-92	+54.5%
98	Nauru	-137	+36%
99	Belize	-173	-370.3%
100	Vanuatu	-201	0%
101	U.S. Virgin Islands	-214	n/a
102	Dominica	-224	+0.4%
103	Guam	-244	0%
104	Latvia	-280	+91.1%
105	Greenland	-324	+1.2%
106	Kiribati	-348	n/a
107	Tuvalu	-366	-3.1%
108	San Marino	-368	-249%
109	Suriname	-486	-64.2%
110	Guyana	-689	+60.5%
111	Libya	-694	0%
112	São Tomé and Príncipe	-782	n/a
113	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-851	-72.6%
114	Ukraine	-1,129	+72.9%
115	New Caledonia	-1,181	0%
116	Micronesia	-1,190	-75%
117	Saint Martin	-1,209	+57.6%
118	American Samoa	-1,333	-104.1%
119	French Polynesia	-1,348	+6.6%
120	Northern Mariana Islands	-1,373	-81.9%
121	Ethiopia	-1,377	-103.5%
122	Guinea-Bissau	-1,395	-0.1%
123	Madagascar	-1,480	0%
124	Uruguay	-1,482	0%
125	Mauritania	-1,483	0%
126	Sierra Leone	-1,544	-219.5%
127	North Korea	-1,585	0%
128	Comoros	-1,766	0%
129	Gambia	-1,949	0%
130	Marshall Islands	-2,016	-0.6%
131	Thailand	-2,093	-106.5%
132	Tonga	-2,220	-22.9%
133	Montenegro	-2,344	+29.2%
134	Malawi	-2,666	-0.4%
135	Georgia	-2,738	0%
136	Samoa	-2,860	-24.4%
137	Hong Kong	-3,427	-90.4%
138	Lesotho	-3,449	0%
139	Tajikistan	-3,564	0%
140	Botswana	-4,083	+64%
141	Eswatini	-4,242	0%
142	Mauritius	-4,324	+26.6%
143	Guinea	-4,373	-0.2%
144	Niger	-4,405	-0.1%
145	Republic of the Congo	-4,476	-0.1%
146	Croatia	-4,517	+47.2%
147	Bolivia	-4,663	0%
148	Jamaica	-4,665	n/a
149	Vietnam	-5,418	+16.1%
150	North Macedonia	-5,483	+76.6%
151	Honduras	-5,777	+6.8%
152	Fiji	-6,008	0%
153	Puerto Rico	-7,410	0%
154	Tanzania	-7,704	+58.6%
155	Slovakia	-8,172	-287.9%
156	Paraguay	-8,226	0%
157	Serbia	-8,974	+12.2%
158	Tunisia	-9,190	+52.1%
159	Uzbekistan	-9,205	0%
160	Kazakhstan	-9,804	-12.5%
161	Cameroon	-9,888	0%
162	Laos	-10,305	0%
163	Nicaragua	-10,383	0%
164	Algeria	-10,803	-0%
165	Indonesia	-11,248	+40%
166	Ghana	-11,259	-3,769.1%
167	Liberia	-11,852	-17.3%
168	Cuba	-11,976	0%
169	Palestine	-12,369	0%
170	Burkina Faso	-13,079	-131%
171	Burundi	-14,415	-41.5%
172	New Zealand	-14,944	-135.5%
173	Eritrea	-14,966	0%
174	Oman	-16,726	+90.3%
175	South Korea	-16,778	-114.9%
176	Romania	-17,731	-34.3%
177	Dominican Republic	-17,957	0%
178	Armenia	-19,457	-49.1%
179	Rwanda	-21,492	+3.4%
180	Mali	-22,210	-48.4%
181	Mozambique	-23,103	+10.7%
182	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-25,865	+3.6%
183	Cambodia	-27,025	n/a
184	Lebanon	-27,290	+42.9%
185	El Salvador	-27,343	-8.4%
186	Ecuador	-28,503	-176.2%
187	Sri Lanka	-29,586	+1%
188	Guatemala	-29,908	-25%
189	Albania	-32,848	-96.9%
190	Haiti	-32,952	+2.7%
191	Moldova	-33,405	0%
192	Belarus	-33,954	0%
193	Japan	-34,996	-183.3%
194	Myanmar	-35,370	+46.6%
195	Singapore	-44,030	+69.8%
196	Morocco	-47,902	-35%
197	Kenya	-52,552	-207.1%
198	Togo	-56,991	-78.7%
199	Democratic Republic of the Congo	-64,639	-3,858.3%
200	Zimbabwe	-74,623	+16.6%
201	Yemen	-81,248	+17.1%
202	Philippines	-85,185	-81.2%
203	Central African Republic	-85,646	-246.1%
204	Nigeria	-86,115	-494%
205	Saudi Arabia	-106,287	-42.2%
206	Mexico	-122,791	+16.7%
207	South Sudan	-154,359	-345.3%
208	Greece	-160,277	-2,622.9%
209	Brazil	-208,581	-165.9%
210	Venezuela	-332,936	+36.5%
211	India	-348,916	-372.7%
212	China	-379,749	-314.7%
213	Afghanistan	-548,784	-482.1%
214	Pakistan	-565,673	-1.1%
215	Bangladesh	-994,722	+0.8%

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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 674,787 in 2021, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest net migration?

Bangladesh, with -994,722 in 2021.

Where does this ranking come from?

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