World Development Indicators

Movement of people across borders
Net migration	International migrant stock	Refugees		Personal remittances
		By country of origin	By country of asylum	Received	Paid
thousands	thousands	thousands	thousands	$ millions	$ millions
2017	2015	2021	2021	2020	2020

Afghanistan	-315	382	2,712.9	66.9	789	225
Albania	-70	58	19.8	0.1	1,466	125
Algeria	-50	242	6.0	97.9	1,700	149
American Samoa	..	23	..	..	..	..
Andorra	..	42	..	..	..	84
Angola	32	107	11.4	26.0	8	576
Antigua and Barbuda	0	28	0.1	..	36	45
Argentina	24	2,086	0.1	4.1	631	545
Armenia	-25	191	12.3	34.7	1,327	304
Aruba	1	36	..	..	35	102
Australia	791	6,764	0.0	55.6	1,187	4,359
Austria	325	1,492	0.0	152.5	3,000	6,204
Azerbaijan	6	264	39.5	1.7	1,403	732
Bahamas, The	5	59	0.7	0.0	..	235
Bahrain	239	704	0.4	0.3	..	3,269
Bangladesh	-1,848	1,423	22.7	918.9	21,752	95
Barbados	0	34	0.3	..	108	..
Belarus	44	1,083	4.6	2.7	1,014	245
Belgium	240	1,388	0.0	74.1	12,694	6,223
Belize	6	54	0.1	0.1	121	42
Benin	-10	245	0.7	1.7	205	92
Bermuda	..	19	..	..	1,574	183
Bhutan	2	51	6.7	..	83	48
Bolivia	-48	143	0.5	1.1	1,127	216
Bosnia and Herzegovina	-108	35	18.2	0.2	1,858	97
Botswana	15	161	0.1	0.7	36	164
Brazil	106	714	2.0	62.0	3,566	1,608
Brunei Darussalam	0	103	..	..	1	10
Bulgaria	-24	102	0.5	22.8	955	189
Burkina Faso	-125	705	20.2	25.0	525	202
Burundi	10	287	323.6	81.5	46	19
Cabo Verde	-7	15	0.0	..	246	37
Cambodia	-150	74	12.1	0.0	1,272	226
Cameroon	-24	382	125.5	457.3	334	102
Canada	1,210	7,836	0.1	130.1	822	6,785
Cayman Islands	..	24	0.0	0.1	9	481
Central African Republic	-200	82	737.7	9.3	0	..
Chad	10	517	11.8	555.8	0	..
Channel Islands	7	82	..	..	..	..
Chile	559	469	1.0	2.1	71	774
China	-1,742	978	170.2	303.4	18,876	18,296
Hong Kong SAR, China	147	2,839	0.1	0.3	427	909
Macao SAR, China	25	343	..	..	19	2,134
Colombia	1,024	133	115.8	1.5	6,929	259
Comoros	-10	13	1.7	0.0	227	3
Congo, Dem. Rep.	119	546	908.4	524.1	1,109	695
Congo, Rep.	-20	393	14.3	40.8	..	..
Costa Rica	21	422	0.2	10.2	525	496
Cote d'Ivoire	-40	2,175	39.9	4.3	329	936
Croatia	-40	577	18.1	1.0	4,203	570
Cuba	-72	13	11.5	0.2	..	..
Curacao	3	38	0.0	0.1	131	118
Cyprus	25	196	0.0	16.3	534	827
Czech Republic	110	405	0.8	1.9	4,186	3,252
Denmark	76	573	0.0	36.0	1,488	3,387
Djibouti	5	112	2.6	23.2	64	2
Dominica	..	7	0.1	..	68	22
Dominican Republic	-150	416	0.6	0.2	8,332	837
Ecuador	182	388	1.8	56.6	3,344	518
Egypt, Arab Rep.	-190	492	27.5	280.7	29,603	445
El Salvador	-203	42	52.0	0.1	5,931	187
Equatorial Guinea	80	11	0.2	..	0	..
Eritrea	-199	16	511.9	0.1	0	..
Estonia	20	202	0.3	0.3	507	204
Eswatini	-42	32	0.2	0.9	112	24
Ethiopia	150	1,073	149.1	821.3	404	17
Faroe Islands	..	6	..	..	0	..
Fiji	-31	14	0.4	0.0	355	7
Finland	70	316	0.0	24.1	813	977
France	183	7,784	0.0	499.9	25,142	14,633
French Polynesia	-5	30	..	..	582	..
Gabon	16	268	0.6	0.3	18	..
Gambia, The	-15	193	11.0	4.4	416	18
Georgia	-50	169	9.8	1.8	2,110	77
Germany	2,719	12,006	0.1	1,255.7	19,359	15,680
Ghana	-50	399	14.3	11.9	4,292	727
Greece	-80	1,243	0.1	119.7	611	2,725
Greenland	..	6	..	..	..	..
Grenada	-1	7	0.1	..	70	50
Guam	-3	76	..	..	..	..
Guatemala	-46	76	26.9	0.5	11,405	19
Guinea	-20	228	34.4	5.7	23	23
Guinea-Bissau	-7	22	2.0	1.8	175	79
Guyana	-30	15	0.3	0.0	438	130
Haiti	-175	40	29.5	..	3,455	549
Honduras	-34	28	51.7	0.1	5,589	292
Hungary	30	450	4.7	5.7	3,820	1,353
Iceland	2	38	0.0	1.8	165	291
India	-2,663	5,241	14.2	212.4	83,149	7,011
Indonesia	-495	329	14.0	10.0	9,651	4,547
Iran, Islamic Rep.	-275	2,726	143.0	798.3	1,330	..
Iraq	39	354	343.9	280.1	644	581
Ireland	118	746	0.0	9.6	276	612
Isle of Man	..	45	..	..	..	..
Israel	50	2,012	0.5	1.2	1,138	5,776
Italy	745	5,789	0.1	144.9	9,760	10,197
Jamaica	-57	23	2.4	0.0	3,067	306
Japan	358	2,044	0.0	1.1	4,888	8,245
Jordan	51	3,112	3.0	3,047.6	3,902	393
Kazakhstan	-90	3,547	3.2	0.4	374	2,081
Kenya	-50	1,084	7.5	481.0	3,108	8
Kiribati	-4	3	..	..	15	1
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	-27	48	0.5	..	..	..
Korea, Rep.	59	1,327	0.1	3.6	7,435	9,684
Kosovo	..	..	..	..	1,436	50
Kuwait	198	2,866	1.7	0.7	23	17,357
Kyrgyz Republic	-20	204	3.0	0.3	2,423	506
Lao PDR	-74	22	6.8	..	232	96
Latvia	-74	263	0.1	0.7	1,088	175
Lebanon	-150	1,998	6.1	1,328.5	6,633	2,946
Lesotho	-50	7	0.0	0.3	471	..
Liberia	-25	114	5.4	8.2	333	251
Libya	-10	771	19.1	3.1	0	763
Liechtenstein	..	23	0.0	0.1	..	..
Lithuania	-164	136	0.1	1.9	791	366
Luxembourg	49	249	0.0	6.0	2,191	14,325
North Macedonia	-5	131	1.8	0.3	413	27
Madagascar	-8	32	0.4	0.2	495	50
Malawi	-80	215	0.5	21.5	215	37
Malaysia	250	2,514	1.2	132.1	1,432	9,090
Maldives	57	94	0.1	..	5	397
Mali	-200	363	183.4	50.0	997	205
Malta	5	41	0.0	9.3	280	543
Marshall Islands	..	3	0.0	..	31	24
Mauritania	25	138	39.3	101.9	169	39
Mauritius	0	29	0.2	0.0	285	691
Mexico	-300	1,193	16.4	73.4	42,878	899
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	-3	3	..	..	23	..
Moldova	-7	143	2.2	0.3	1,877	207
Monaco	..	21	0.0	0.0	..	..
Mongolia	-4	18	2.5	..	549	146
Montenegro	-2	83	0.6	0.2	601	98
Morocco	-257	89	5.4	7.3	7,414	152
Mozambique	-25	223	0.1	4.8	349	211
Myanmar	-817	73	1,177.0	..	2,250	179
Namibia	-24	94	0.4	3.7	64	105
Nepal	209	518	7.0	19.6	8,108	44
Netherlands	80	1,979	0.1	99.6	2,359	13,561
New Caledonia	3	64	..	..	621	..
New Zealand	74	1,040	0.0	1.8	148	875
Nicaragua	-106	40	11.0	0.3	1,855	2
Niger	20	189	21.9	249.9	521	396
Nigeria	-300	1,199	383.7	77.1	17,208	92
Northern Mariana Islands	..	22	..	..	..	..
Norway	140	742	0.0	46.0	593	3,871
Oman	437	1,845	0.1	0.3	39	8,772
Pakistan	-1,167	3,629	132.8	1,491.1	26,089	187
Palau	..	6	..	..	2	..
Panama	56	185	0.1	2.5	456	512
Papua New Guinea	-4	26	0.5	11.8	2	92
Paraguay	-83	156	0.1	4.5	584	..
Peru	495	91	3.5	5.8	2,939	165
Philippines	-336	212	0.5	0.8	34,883	211
Poland	-147	619	0.9	4.9	6,727	7,915
Portugal	-30	837	0.0	2.7	723	256
Puerto Rico	-490	275	..	..	..	..
Qatar	200	1,688	0.0	0.2	652	10,112
Romania	-370	227	1.4	4.2	7,626	537
Russian Federation	912	11,643	68.5	10.9	9,915	16,872
Rwanda	-45	442	248.2	121.9	280	56
Samoa	-14	5	0.0	..	204	21
San Marino	..	5	..	..	..	..
Sao Tome and Principe	-8	2	0.0	..	9	2
Saudi Arabia	675	10,186	2.2	0.3	302	34,596
Senegal	-100	263	15.1	14.5	2,562	592
Serbia	20	807	31.7	25.6	3,869	390
Seychelles	-1	13	0.0	..	10	45
Sierra Leone	-21	91	6.6	0.3	177	8
Singapore	135	2,544	0.0	..	0	..
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	..	27	..	0.0	36	75
Slovak Republic	7	177	1.4	1.0	2,464	411
Slovenia	10	236	0.0	0.8	642	281
Solomon Islands	-8	3	0.0	..	28	66
Somalia	-200	25	776.7	13.8	1,735	..
South Africa	727	3,143	0.6	75.5	811	921
South Sudan	-871	824	2,362.8	333.7	87	308
Spain	200	5,853	0.1	122.5	2,996	349
Sri Lanka	-490	39	151.1	0.9	7,140	1,042
St. Kitts and Nevis	..	7	0.0	0.0	32	22
St. Lucia	0	13	0.5	..	60	21
St. Martin (French part)	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	-1	5	0.5	..	61	9
Sudan	-250	503	825.3	1,103.9	495	200
Suriname	-5	47	0.0	0.0	124	77
Sweden	200	1,640	0.0	240.9	3,091	1,766
Switzerland	260	2,439	0.0	118.8	2,941	29,400
Syrian Arab Republic	-2,137	875	6,848.8	589.5	..	..
Tajikistan	-100	275	2.4	10.7	2,187	108
Tanzania	-200	261	0.8	207.1	326	87
Thailand	97	3,913	0.2	100.5	8,257	7,879
Timor-Leste	-27	11	0.0	..	155	398
Togo	-10	277	8.0	10.7	650	101
Tonga	-4	6	0.0	..	191	29
Trinidad and Tobago	-4	50	0.3	3.6	194	137
Tunisia	-20	57	2.2	3.2	2,367	23
Turkiye	1,420	2,965	105.0	3,759.8	795	1,344
Turkmenistan	-25	196	0.6	0.0	1	..
Turks and Caicos Islands	..	12	0.0	0.0	7	129
Tuvalu	..	0	..	..	0	0
Uganda	843	749	7.9	1,529.9	1,062	195
Ukraine	50	4,835	27.6	2.4	15,213	843
United Arab Emirates	200	8,095	0.2	1.4	..	..
United Kingdom	1,303	8,543	0.1	137.1	3,248	9,382
United States	4,774	46,627	0.4	339.2	6,498	69,918
Uruguay	-15	72	0.0	0.9	111	106
Uzbekistan	-44	1,171	3.0	13.0	6,980	337
Vanuatu	1	3	..	..	98	28
Venezuela, RB	-3,266	1,404	199.2	39.3	279	..
Vietnam	-400	73	317.7	..	17,200	..
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	-2	57	..	..	..	..
West Bank and Gaza	-53	256	103.6	2,400.2	2,560	22
Yemen, Rep.	-150	344	37.6	89.5	..	..
Zambia	-40	128	0.3	75.2	135	89
Zimbabwe	-584	399	8.1	9.5	1,832	22
World	0	243,193	27,119.8	27,119.8	653,418	426,927
East Asia & Pacific	-2,057	25,557	1,704.0	622.0	111,012	67,256
Europe & Central Asia	7,894	85,289	382.6	7,018.8	180,252	174,448
Latin America & Caribbean	-2,606	8,946	529.5	269.2	104,603	9,858
Middle East & North Africa	-1,194	38,865	7,553.8	8,962.9	58,652	81,869
North America	5,984	54,482	0.5	469.3	8,894	76,886
South Asia	-6,215	11,377	3,047.5	2,709.8	147,115	9,049
Sub-Saharan Africa	-1,814	18,677	7,822.2	7,067.8	42,890	7,561
Low income	-3,817	9,366	16,757.2	6,223.9	11,018	3,113
Lower middle income	-11,401	29,803	2,999.5	7,814.2	340,751	23,693
Upper middle income	2,631	45,118	1,049.0	9,363.0	149,462	67,395
High income	15,845	157,500	35.2	3,679.4	151,908	332,726

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