World Net migration rate ranking 2026

Source: United Nations World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant.

China

China's detailed profile follows this site's original China dataset. World rankings use UN WPP 2024 figures for cross-country comparability.

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Showing 237 countries and areas for 2026.

Rank	Country or area	Net migration rate	Total population	Share of world population	Data type
1	Holy See	25.68 ‰	506 people	0.00%	Projection
2	Tokelau	16.07 ‰	2,691 people	0.00%	Projection
3	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	15.94 ‰	31,913 people	0.00%	Projection
4	Oman	14.06 ‰	5,671,458 people	0.07%	Projection
5	Saint Barthélemy	12.39 ‰	11,550 people	0.00%	Projection
6	Gibraltar	11.75 ‰	40,867 people	0.00%	Projection
7	Syrian Arab Republic	11.55 ‰	26,472,497 people	0.32%	Projection
8	Cayman Islands	11.51 ‰	77,196 people	0.00%	Projection
9	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.92 ‰	44,447 people	0.00%	Projection
10	Seychelles	10.13 ‰	134,959 people	0.00%	Projection
11	Andorra	8.97 ‰	83,753 people	0.00%	Projection
12	Bahrain	8.52 ‰	1,675,572 people	0.02%	Projection
13	Qatar	7.81 ‰	3,173,559 people	0.04%	Projection
14	Western Sahara	7.68 ‰	610,813 people	0.01%	Projection
15	United Arab Emirates	7.55 ‰	11,574,682 people	0.14%	Projection
16	Canada	7.20 ‰	40,467,728 people	0.49%	Projection
17	Luxembourg	7.18 ‰	687,448 people	0.01%	Projection
18	Kuwait	6.02 ‰	5,102,773 people	0.06%	Projection
19	Ireland	5.98 ‰	5,356,950 people	0.06%	Projection
20	Faroe Islands	5.51 ‰	56,526 people	0.00%	Projection
21	Jordan	5.24 ‰	11,589,532 people	0.14%	Projection
22	Cyprus	5.22 ‰	1,382,334 people	0.02%	Projection
23	United Kingdom	5.21 ‰	69,931,528 people	0.84%	Projection
24	Iceland	5.04 ‰	402,329 people	0.00%	Projection
25	Netherlands	4.85 ‰	18,448,775 people	0.22%	Projection
26	Australia	4.84 ‰	27,227,096 people	0.33%	Projection
27	Liechtenstein	4.78 ‰	40,368 people	0.00%	Projection
28	Sudan	4.73 ‰	53,282,719 people	0.64%	Projection
29	Malaysia	4.37 ‰	36,385,115 people	0.44%	Projection
30	Sweden	4.00 ‰	10,701,046 people	0.13%	Projection
31	Malta	3.93 ‰	549,011 people	0.01%	Projection
32	Jersey	3.86 ‰	104,106 people	0.00%	Projection
33	Switzerland	3.79 ‰	9,007,798 people	0.11%	Projection
34	San Marino	3.77 ‰	33,605 people	0.00%	Projection
35	United States of America	3.38 ‰	349,035,494 people	4.20%	Projection
36	Turks and Caicos Islands	3.21 ‰	47,148 people	0.00%	Projection
37	New Zealand	3.11 ‰	5,287,479 people	0.06%	Projection
38	Saudi Arabia	3.09 ‰	35,165,787 people	0.42%	Projection
39	Denmark	3.05 ‰	6,023,520 people	0.07%	Projection
40	Guernsey	3.04 ‰	64,610 people	0.00%	Projection
41	Monaco	2.79 ‰	38,087 people	0.00%	Projection
42	British Virgin Islands	2.63 ‰	39,936 people	0.00%	Projection
43	Belgium	2.51 ‰	11,774,642 people	0.14%	Projection
44	Curaçao	2.49 ‰	185,440 people	0.00%	Projection
45	Chile	2.41 ‰	19,945,850 people	0.24%	Projection
46	Russian Federation	2.27 ‰	143,394,458 people	1.73%	Projection
47	Singapore	2.27 ‰	5,905,748 people	0.07%	Projection
48	Anguilla	2.26 ‰	14,817 people	0.00%	Projection
49	Finland	2.25 ‰	5,621,739 people	0.07%	Projection
50	Bahamas	2.23 ‰	404,628 people	0.00%	Projection
51	Colombia	2.15 ‰	53,936,226 people	0.65%	Projection
52	Norway	2.13 ‰	5,652,989 people	0.07%	Projection
53	South Africa	2.01 ‰	65,453,084 people	0.79%	Projection
54	Germany	1.89 ‰	83,644,258 people	1.01%	Projection
55	Isle of Man	1.88 ‰	84,054 people	0.00%	Projection
56	Solomon Islands	1.83 ‰	858,288 people	0.01%	Projection
57	Spain	1.78 ‰	47,850,793 people	0.58%	Projection
58	Equatorial Guinea	1.78 ‰	1,984,468 people	0.02%	Projection
59	Portugal	1.63 ‰	10,395,362 people	0.13%	Projection
60	Turkmenistan	1.52 ‰	7,736,632 people	0.09%	Projection
61	Greece	1.48 ‰	9,897,116 people	0.12%	Projection
62	Austria	1.45 ‰	9,107,266 people	0.11%	Projection
63	Hungary	1.35 ‰	9,585,818 people	0.12%	Projection
64	Israel	1.35 ‰	9,647,689 people	0.12%	Projection
65	France	1.33 ‰	66,746,401 people	0.80%	Projection
66	Czechia	1.27 ‰	10,527,780 people	0.13%	Projection
67	Slovenia	1.23 ‰	2,114,574 people	0.03%	Projection
68	Panama	1.23 ‰	4,625,718 people	0.06%	Projection
69	Republic of Korea	1.21 ‰	51,600,388 people	0.62%	Projection
70	New Caledonia	1.17 ‰	297,892 people	0.00%	Projection
71	China, Macao SAR	1.14 ‰	723,188 people	0.01%	Projection
72	Japan	1.05 ‰	122,427,731 people	1.47%	Projection
73	Niue	1.01 ‰	1,822 people	0.00%	Projection
74	Italy	0.99 ‰	58,926,166 people	0.71%	Projection
75	Belize	0.91 ‰	428,644 people	0.01%	Projection
76	Bhutan	0.79 ‰	802,214 people	0.01%	Projection
77	Somalia	0.76 ‰	20,305,907 people	0.24%	Projection
78	Azerbaijan	0.74 ‰	10,454,855 people	0.13%	Projection
79	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	0.72 ‰	93,168,497 people	1.12%	Projection
80	Aruba	0.68 ‰	108,164 people	0.00%	Projection
81	South Sudan	0.64 ‰	12,436,037 people	0.15%	Projection
82	Gabon	0.44 ‰	2,647,400 people	0.03%	Projection
83	Thailand	0.41 ‰	71,559,614 people	0.86%	Projection
84	Libya	0.35 ‰	7,539,852 people	0.09%	Projection
85	Puerto Rico	0.33 ‰	3,222,688 people	0.04%	Projection
86	Georgia	0.32 ‰	3,804,642 people	0.05%	Projection
87	Zambia	0.31 ‰	22,521,915 people	0.27%	Projection
88	Djibouti	0.25 ‰	1,199,459 people	0.01%	Projection
89	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.23 ‰	46,992 people	0.00%	Projection
90	Ethiopia	0.20 ‰	138,902,185 people	1.67%	Projection
91	Côte d'Ivoire	0.20 ‰	33,494,346 people	0.40%	Projection
92	Peru	0.19 ‰	34,922,148 people	0.42%	Projection
93	Costa Rica	0.19 ‰	5,174,789 people	0.06%	Projection
94	Trinidad and Tobago	0.11 ‰	1,513,268 people	0.02%	Projection
95	Malawi	0.06 ‰	22,785,535 people	0.27%	Projection
96	Argentina	0.05 ‰	46,003,734 people	0.55%	Projection
97	Slovakia	0.02 ‰	5,451,342 people	0.07%	Projection
98	Brunei Darussalam	0.02 ‰	469,775 people	0.01%	Projection
99	Namibia	0.02 ‰	3,153,246 people	0.04%	Projection
100	Kyrgyzstan	0.01 ‰	7,400,464 people	0.09%	Projection
101	Mongolia	0.00 ‰	3,556,798 people	0.04%	Projection
102	Saint Helena	0.00 ‰	5,148 people	0.00%	Projection
103	Mayotte	-0.01 ‰	347,536 people	0.00%	Projection
104	Nigeria	-0.01 ‰	242,431,832 people	2.92%	Projection
105	Antigua and Barbuda	-0.02 ‰	94,626 people	0.00%	Projection
106	Papua New Guinea	-0.05 ‰	10,947,848 people	0.13%	Projection
107	Madagascar	-0.08 ‰	33,522,052 people	0.40%	Projection
108	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	-0.11 ‰	26,633,691 people	0.32%	Projection
109	Angola	-0.11 ‰	40,215,180 people	0.48%	Projection
110	Uzbekistan	-0.12 ‰	37,724,223 people	0.45%	Projection
111	Bermuda	-0.13 ‰	64,459 people	0.00%	Projection
112	Indonesia	-0.14 ‰	287,886,782 people	3.47%	Projection
113	Ukraine	-0.16 ‰	39,535,848 people	0.48%	Projection
114	China View China data	-0.16 ‰	1,412,914,089 people	17.02%	Projection
115	Liberia	-0.18 ‰	5,853,949 people	0.07%	Projection
116	Latvia	-0.20 ‰	1,835,935 people	0.02%	Projection
117	Poland	-0.21 ‰	37,843,188 people	0.46%	Projection
118	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	-0.25 ‰	12,749,291 people	0.15%	Projection
119	Democratic Republic of the Congo	-0.25 ‰	116,452,162 people	1.40%	Projection
120	Saint Lucia	-0.27 ‰	180,488 people	0.00%	Projection
121	Iraq	-0.27 ‰	48,007,437 people	0.58%	Projection
122	India	-0.30 ‰	1,476,625,576 people	17.79%	Projection
123	Vanuatu	-0.33 ‰	342,564 people	0.00%	Projection
124	Barbados	-0.35 ‰	282,724 people	0.00%	Projection
125	United Republic of Tanzania	-0.35 ‰	72,563,780 people	0.87%	Projection
126	Niger	-0.37 ‰	28,814,878 people	0.35%	Projection
127	Guatemala	-0.39 ‰	18,967,978 people	0.23%	Projection
128	Belarus	-0.40 ‰	8,937,018 people	0.11%	Projection
129	Honduras	-0.41 ‰	11,184,760 people	0.13%	Projection
130	Benin	-0.42 ‰	15,170,420 people	0.18%	Projection
131	Uruguay	-0.42 ‰	3,382,537 people	0.04%	Projection
132	Egypt	-0.44 ‰	120,101,175 people	1.45%	Projection
133	Rwanda	-0.47 ‰	14,889,693 people	0.18%	Projection
134	Congo	-0.50 ‰	6,637,786 people	0.08%	Projection
135	Viet Nam	-0.50 ‰	102,177,431 people	1.23%	Projection
136	Yemen	-0.52 ‰	42,961,653 people	0.52%	Projection
137	Estonia	-0.54 ‰	1,331,062 people	0.02%	Projection
138	Kenya	-0.59 ‰	58,636,412 people	0.71%	Projection
139	Algeria	-0.60 ‰	48,028,334 people	0.58%	Projection
140	Kazakhstan	-0.61 ‰	21,083,626 people	0.25%	Projection
141	Cameroon	-0.62 ‰	30,640,817 people	0.37%	Projection
142	Croatia	-0.65 ‰	3,822,345 people	0.05%	Projection
143	China, Taiwan Province of China	-0.65 ‰	23,011,292 people	0.28%	Projection
144	Ghana	-0.68 ‰	35,697,557 people	0.43%	Projection
145	Senegal	-0.69 ‰	19,366,548 people	0.23%	Projection
146	Myanmar	-0.74 ‰	55,184,819 people	0.66%	Projection
147	Ecuador	-0.75 ‰	18,444,506 people	0.22%	Projection
148	Guinea-Bissau	-0.82 ‰	2,297,808 people	0.03%	Projection
149	Mexico	-0.83 ‰	132,997,658 people	1.60%	Projection
150	Bulgaria	-0.86 ‰	6,667,660 people	0.08%	Projection
151	Serbia	-0.89 ‰	6,641,964 people	0.08%	Projection
152	Brazil	-0.96 ‰	213,562,666 people	2.57%	Projection
153	Gambia	-1.00 ‰	2,884,079 people	0.03%	Projection
154	Mauritania	-1.07 ‰	5,461,319 people	0.07%	Projection
155	Lebanon	-1.13 ‰	5,897,467 people	0.07%	Projection
156	Burkina Faso	-1.15 ‰	24,601,700 people	0.30%	Projection
157	Timor-Leste	-1.18 ‰	1,436,923 people	0.02%	Projection
158	Tunisia	-1.19 ‰	12,415,138 people	0.15%	Projection
159	Afghanistan	-1.20 ‰	45,047,068 people	0.54%	Projection
160	Nicaragua	-1.20 ‰	7,097,329 people	0.09%	Projection
161	Palau	-1.22 ‰	17,614 people	0.00%	Projection
162	Philippines	-1.23 ‰	117,724,472 people	1.42%	Projection
163	Togo	-1.27 ‰	9,930,918 people	0.12%	Projection
164	Guinea	-1.28 ‰	15,441,992 people	0.19%	Projection
165	Sri Lanka	-1.32 ‰	23,348,315 people	0.28%	Projection
166	Sierra Leone	-1.37 ‰	8,996,744 people	0.11%	Projection
167	Lao People's Democratic Republic	-1.40 ‰	7,974,018 people	0.10%	Projection
168	Suriname	-1.50 ‰	645,256 people	0.01%	Projection
169	Mozambique	-1.53 ‰	36,639,850 people	0.44%	Projection
170	Romania	-1.54 ‰	18,800,605 people	0.23%	Projection
171	Morocco	-1.57 ‰	38,762,441 people	0.47%	Projection
172	Botswana	-1.60 ‰	2,603,388 people	0.03%	Projection
173	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	-1.66 ‰	5,513 people	0.00%	Projection
174	Grenada	-1.69 ‰	117,362 people	0.00%	Projection
175	China, Hong Kong SAR	-1.70 ‰	7,378,602 people	0.09%	Projection
176	Paraguay	-1.73 ‰	7,095,279 people	0.09%	Projection
177	Lithuania	-1.73 ‰	2,797,338 people	0.03%	Projection
178	Tajikistan	-1.84 ‰	10,978,598 people	0.13%	Projection
179	Cambodia	-1.90 ‰	18,051,219 people	0.22%	Projection
180	Cuba	-2.03 ‰	10,892,659 people	0.13%	Projection
181	Mali	-2.03 ‰	25,932,275 people	0.31%	Projection
182	Lesotho	-2.04 ‰	2,389,336 people	0.03%	Projection
183	Eritrea	-2.04 ‰	3,682,669 people	0.04%	Projection
184	Bangladesh	-2.09 ‰	177,818,044 people	2.14%	Projection
185	Mauritius	-2.12 ‰	1,265,059 people	0.02%	Projection
186	Montserrat	-2.29 ‰	4,328 people	0.00%	Projection
187	Uganda	-2.31 ‰	52,761,470 people	0.64%	Projection
188	Réunion	-2.35 ‰	886,298 people	0.01%	Projection
189	Burundi	-2.38 ‰	14,729,157 people	0.18%	Projection
190	French Guiana	-2.40 ‰	318,872 people	0.00%	Projection
191	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-2.43 ‰	3,114,242 people	0.04%	Projection
192	Comoros	-2.48 ‰	899,010 people	0.01%	Projection
193	Türkiye	-2.48 ‰	87,926,082 people	1.06%	Projection
194	Cabo Verde	-2.53 ‰	529,630 people	0.01%	Projection
195	Haiti	-2.66 ‰	12,037,506 people	0.15%	Projection
196	Central African Republic	-2.74 ‰	5,698,984 people	0.07%	Projection
197	Guam	-2.77 ‰	170,185 people	0.00%	Projection
198	Sao Tome and Principe	-2.82 ‰	244,994 people	0.00%	Projection
199	Dominican Republic	-3.02 ‰	11,609,500 people	0.14%	Projection
200	Zimbabwe	-3.16 ‰	17,273,580 people	0.21%	Projection
201	North Macedonia	-3.18 ‰	1,804,062 people	0.02%	Projection
202	Kiribati	-3.18 ‰	138,445 people	0.00%	Projection
203	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	-3.24 ‰	28,633,711 people	0.34%	Projection
204	State of Palestine	-3.52 ‰	5,692,790 people	0.07%	Projection
205	Fiji	-3.61 ‰	937,282 people	0.01%	Projection
206	Dominica	-3.68 ‰	65,511 people	0.00%	Projection
207	El Salvador	-3.68 ‰	6,391,254 people	0.08%	Projection
208	Guadeloupe	-3.87 ‰	372,453 people	0.00%	Projection
209	Maldives	-3.91 ‰	531,517 people	0.01%	Projection
210	French Polynesia	-4.09 ‰	283,076 people	0.00%	Projection
211	Jamaica	-4.12 ‰	2,833,404 people	0.03%	Projection
212	United States Virgin Islands	-4.31 ‰	83,400 people	0.00%	Projection
213	Eswatini	-4.33 ‰	1,269,859 people	0.02%	Projection
214	Pakistan	-4.42 ‰	259,299,792 people	3.12%	Projection
215	Greenland	-4.48 ‰	55,629 people	0.00%	Projection
216	Montenegro	-4.51 ‰	626,233 people	0.01%	Projection
217	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	-4.56 ‰	3,465 people	0.00%	Projection
218	Chad	-5.21 ‰	21,560,380 people	0.26%	Projection
219	Republic of Moldova	-5.65 ‰	2,961,253 people	0.04%	Projection
220	Guyana	-5.69 ‰	840,890 people	0.01%	Projection
221	Martinique	-6.71 ‰	337,711 people	0.00%	Projection
222	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-6.76 ‰	99,244 people	0.00%	Projection
223	Wallis and Futuna Islands	-7.23 ‰	11,113 people	0.00%	Projection
224	Albania	-8.21 ‰	2,751,025 people	0.03%	Projection
225	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	-8.41 ‰	1,666,992 people	0.02%	Projection
226	Nauru	-9.16 ‰	12,101 people	0.00%	Projection
227	Armenia	-9.21 ‰	2,930,915 people	0.04%	Projection
228	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	-9.82 ‰	114,182 people	0.00%	Projection
229	Nepal	-9.86 ‰	29,629,410 people	0.36%	Projection
230	Samoa	-12.66 ‰	220,528 people	0.00%	Projection
231	Northern Mariana Islands	-18.41 ‰	42,914 people	0.00%	Projection
232	Tonga	-20.50 ‰	103,291 people	0.00%	Projection
233	American Samoa	-22.15 ‰	45,318 people	0.00%	Projection
234	Tuvalu	-23.98 ‰	9,362 people	0.00%	Projection
235	Cook Islands	-32.63 ‰	12,826 people	0.00%	Projection
236	Saint Martin (French part)	-43.26 ‰	23,898 people	0.00%	Projection
237	Marshall Islands	-44.91 ‰	35,075 people	0.00%	Projection

Estimates cover 1950–2023; 2024 and later are UN medium-variant projections. Rankings use the latest available value for the selected year. The world total is the sum of all countries and areas in the dataset.

China's detailed profile follows this site's original China dataset. World rankings use UN WPP 2024 figures for cross-country comparability.