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	2021	2021

Afghanistan	-47	382	2,712.9	66.9	300	225
Albania	-10	58	19.8	0.1	1,718	140
Algeria	-36	242	6.0	97.9	1,791	81
American Samoa	-2	23	..	..	..	..
Andorra	1	42	..	..	47	84
Angola	78	107	11.4	26.0	13	445
Antigua and Barbuda	0	28	0.1	..	45	53
Argentina	5	2,086	0.1	4.1	912	589
Armenia	-26	191	12.3	34.7	1,557	353
Aruba	0	36	..	..	36	111
Australia	245	6,764	0.0	55.6	936	3,812
Austria	46	1,492	0.0	152.5	3,224	7,147
Azerbaijan	1	264	39.5	1.7	1,527	813
Bahamas, The	1	59	0.7	0.0	..	246
Bahrain	29	704	0.4	0.3	..	..
Bangladesh	-176	1,423	22.7	918.9	22,206	100
Barbados	0	34	0.3	..	0	..
Belarus	16	1,083	4.6	2.7	1,150	240
Belgium	56	1,388	0.0	74.1	13,709	7,108
Belize	1	54	0.1	0.1	135	42
Benin	4	245	0.7	1.7	231	100
Bermuda	0	19	..	..	1,719	159
Bhutan	0	51	6.7	..	73	27
Bolivia	-10	143	0.5	1.1	1,417	294
Bosnia and Herzegovina	-31	35	18.2	0.2	2,374	106
Botswana	4	161	0.1	0.7	58	237
Brazil	56	714	2.0	62.0	4,102	1,755
Brunei Darussalam	-1	103	..	..	1	10
Bulgaria	-14	102	0.5	22.8	1,978	157
Burkina Faso	-15	705	20.2	25.0	571	203
Burundi	-68	287	323.6	81.5	48	..
Cabo Verde	-1	15	0.0	..	315	35
Cambodia	-46	74	12.1	0.0	1,153	266
Cameroon	-38	382	125.5	457.3	430	40
Canada	361	7,836	0.1	130.1	832	8,078
Cayman Islands	1	24	0.0	0.1	14	481
Central African Republic	-59	82	737.7	9.3	0	..
Chad	17	517	11.8	555.8	0	..
Channel Islands	1	82	..	..	..	..
Chile	215	469	1.0	2.1	70	762
China	-181	978	170.2	303.4	22,483	22,903
Hong Kong SAR, China	0	2,839	0.1	0.3	453	905
Macao SAR, China	8	343	..	..	74	2,049
Colombia	416	133	115.8	1.5	8,608	386
Comoros	-3	13	1.7	0.0	288	3
Congo, Dem. Rep.	4	546	908.4	524.1	1,348	731
Congo, Rep.	-12	393	14.3	40.8	13	49
Costa Rica	4	422	0.2	10.2	594	541
Cote d'Ivoire	-19	2,175	39.9	4.3	440	1,012
Croatia	-14	577	18.1	1.0	5,026	632
Cuba	-14	13	11.5	0.2	..	..
Curacao	1	38	0.0	0.1	142	118
Cyprus	5	196	0.0	16.3	627	960
Czechia	3	405	0.8	1.9	4,387	4,069
Denmark	23	573	0.0	36.0	1,492	3,647
Djibouti	2	112	2.6	23.2	79	1
Dominica	0	7	0.1	..	65	20
Dominican Republic	-30	416	0.6	0.2	10,743	872
Ecuador	49	388	1.8	56.6	4,367	604
Egypt, Arab Rep.	-23	492	27.5	280.7	31,487	442
El Salvador	-51	42	52.0	0.1	7,488	262
Equatorial Guinea	16	11	0.2	..	0	..
Eritrea	-39	16	511.9	0.1	0	..
Estonia	5	202	0.3	0.3	580	258
Eswatini	-10	32	0.2	0.9	132	41
Ethiopia	72	1,073	149.1	821.3	448	14
Faroe Islands	1	6	..	..	0	..
Fiji	-12	14	0.4	0.0	394	12
Finland	13	316	0.0	24.1	667	984
France	13	7,784	0.0	499.9	32,077	16,115
French Polynesia	-1	30	..	..	0	..
Gabon	4	268	0.6	0.3	14	..
Gambia, The	-4	193	11.0	4.4	547	27
Georgia	-8	169	9.8	1.8	2,644	106
Germany	431	12,006	0.1	1,255.7	20,412	17,326
Ghana	-5	399	14.3	11.9	4,168	813
Greece	-25	1,243	0.1	119.7	689	2,938
Greenland	0	6	..	..	..	..
Grenada	0	7	0.1	..	74	53
Guam	-2	76	..	..	..	..
Guatemala	-48	76	26.9	0.5	15,408	20
Guinea	-14	228	34.4	5.7	344	44
Guinea-Bissau	-1	22	2.0	1.8	206	89
Guyana	-6	15	0.3	0.0	548	197
Haiti	-35	40	29.5	..	4,196	678
Honduras	-7	28	51.7	0.1	7,203	344
Hungary	18	450	4.7	5.7	3,611	1,332
Iceland	8	38	0.0	1.8	191	341
India	-220	5,241	14.2	212.4	89,375	8,181
Indonesia	-39	329	14.0	10.0	9,402	4,343
Iran, Islamic Rep.	8	2,726	143.0	798.3	..	..
Iraq	-10	354	343.9	280.1	840	852
Ireland	29	746	0.0	9.6	180	544
Isle of Man	0	45	..	..	..	..
Israel	15	2,012	0.5	1.2	1,231	6,809
Italy	70	5,789	0.1	144.9	10,257	12,273
Jamaica	-11	23	2.4	0.0	3,707	347
Japan	164	2,044	0.0	1.1	5,291	6,133
Jordan	42	3,112	3.0	3,047.6	5,162	624
Kazakhstan	-16	3,547	3.2	0.4	310	2,577
Kenya	-69	1,084	7.5	481.0	3,770	9
Kiribati	-1	3	..	..	13	1
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	-3	48	0.5	..	..	..
Korea, Rep.	113	1,327	0.1	3.6	7,742	10,339
Kosovo	-33	..	..	..	1,695	53
Kuwait	141	2,866	1.7	0.7	807	18,468
Kyrgyz Republic	-28	204	3.0	0.3	2,792	585
Lao PDR	-10	22	6.8	..	221	127
Latvia	-9	263	0.1	0.7	1,317	398
Lebanon	-231	1,998	6.1	1,328.5	6,354	2,095
Lesotho	-3	7	0.0	0.3	499	..
Liberia	-25	114	5.4	8.2	338	251
Libya	9	771	19.1	3.1	0	924
Liechtenstein	0	23	0.0	0.1	..	..
Lithuania	-16	136	0.1	1.9	778	403
Luxembourg	10	249	0.0	6.0	2,298	16,955
North Macedonia	-1	131	1.8	0.3	490	26
Madagascar	0	32	0.4	0.2	440	54
Malawi	-5	215	0.5	21.5	259	36
Malaysia	78	2,514	1.2	132.1	1,565	8,624
Maldives	12	94	0.1	..	5	496
Mali	-34	363	183.4	50.0	1,131	235
Malta	11	41	0.0	9.3	259	465
Marshall Islands	-2	3	0.0	..	34	14
Mauritania	-3	138	39.3	101.9	13	22
Mauritius	-2	29	0.2	0.0	272	720
Mexico	-12	1,193	16.4	73.4	54,130	1,057
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	-1	3	..	..	0	..
Moldova	-44	143	2.2	0.3	2,119	293
Monaco	0	21	0.0	0.0	..	..
Mongolia	11	18	2.5	..	471	144
Montenegro	-2	83	0.6	0.2	792	104
Morocco	-72	89	5.4	7.3	10,705	175
Mozambique	15	223	0.1	4.8	454	221
Myanmar	-105	73	1,177.0	..	2,000	179
Namibia	-9	94	0.4	3.7	46	90
Nepal	-78	518	7.0	19.6	8,226	44
Netherlands	61	1,979	0.1	99.6	2,389	15,785
New Caledonia	-2	64	..	..	0	..
New Zealand	49	1,040	0.0	1.8	661	895
Nicaragua	-22	40	11.0	0.3	2,151	1
Niger	-7	189	21.9	249.9	353	195
Nigeria	15	1,199	383.7	77.1	19,483	83
Northern Mariana Islands	-1	22	..	..	..	..
Norway	22	742	0.0	46.0	672	3,990
Oman	6	1,845	0.1	0.3	39	8,118
Pakistan	-1,575	3,629	132.8	1,491.1	31,312	231
Palau	0	6	..	..	3	16
Panama	11	185	0.1	2.5	568	554
Papua New Guinea	27	26	0.5	11.8	12	153
Paraguay	-17	156	0.1	4.5	585	65
Peru	104	91	3.5	5.8	3,592	173
Philippines	36	212	0.5	0.8	36,685	256
Poland	-2	619	0.9	4.9	7,132	9,419
Portugal	5	837	0.0	2.7	777	322
Puerto Rico	-62	275	..	..	..	..
Qatar	47	1,688	0.0	0.2	859	10,966
Romania	-59	227	1.4	4.2	9,116	642
Russian Federation	350	11,643	68.5	10.9	9,647	16,820
Rwanda	-5	442	248.2	121.9	391	73
Samoa	-3	5	0.0	..	248	26
San Marino	0	5	..	..	..	216
Sao Tome and Principe	-2	2	0.0	..	11	6
Saudi Arabia	283	10,186	2.2	0.3	295	40,735
Senegal	-21	263	15.1	14.5	2,658	..
Serbia	4	807	31.7	25.6	4,598	471
Seychelles	0	13	0.0	..	10	49
Sierra Leone	1	91	6.6	0.3	232	9
Singapore	35	2,544	0.0	..	0	..
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	0	27	..	0.0	46	88
Slovak Republic	4	177	1.4	1.0	2,429	441
Slovenia	7	236	0.0	0.8	747	351
Solomon Islands	-2	3	0.0	..	51	55
Somalia	38	25	776.7	13.8	1,735	..
South Africa	-11	3,143	0.6	75.5	927	1,066
South Sudan	-673	824	2,362.8	333.7	135	10
Spain	167	5,853	0.1	122.5	3,955	261
Sri Lanka	-99	39	151.1	0.9	5,522	1,042
St. Kitts and Nevis	0	7	0.0	0.0	37	20
St. Lucia	0	13	0.5	..	63	14
St. Martin (French part)	-1	..	..	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	-1	5	0.5	..	70	8
Sudan	189	503	825.3	1,103.9	1,119	176
Suriname	-1	47	0.0	0.0	148	105
Sweden	81	1,640	0.0	240.9	3,454	3,264
Switzerland	45	2,439	0.0	118.8	2,737	31,593
Syrian Arab Republic	-294	875	6,848.8	589.5	0	..
Tajikistan	-13	275	2.4	10.7	2,922	167
Tanzania	101	261	0.8	207.1	569	87
Thailand	44	3,913	0.2	100.5	9,065	7,584
Timor-Leste	-5	11	0.0	..	175	319
Togo	-2	277	8.0	10.7	674	101
Tonga	-2	6	0.0	..	217	31
Trinidad and Tobago	1	50	0.3	3.6	233	161
Tunisia	-22	57	2.2	3.2	3,084	27
Turkiye	-252	2,965	105.0	3,759.8	724	631
Turkmenistan	-10	196	0.6	0.0	1	..
Turks and Caicos Islands	1	12	0.0	0.0	0	..
Tuvalu	0	0	..	..	3	1
Uganda	93	749	7.9	1,529.9	1,083	213
Ukraine	-50	4,835	27.6	2.4	18,060	1,083
United Arab Emirates	-13	8,095	0.2	1.4	..	..
United Kingdom	239	8,543	0.1	137.1	3,460	10,274
United States	1,378	46,627	0.4	339.2	6,899	72,669
Uruguay	-3	72	0.0	0.9	126	118
Uzbekistan	-49	1,171	3.0	13.0	9,198	437
Vanuatu	0	3	..	..	208	10
Venezuela, RB	-818	1,404	199.2	39.3	0	..
Vietnam	-4	73	317.7	..	18,060	..
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	0	57	..	..	..	..
West Bank and Gaza	-25	256	103.6	2,400.2	3,393	9
Yemen, Rep.	-40	344	37.6	89.5	0	..
Zambia	20	128	0.3	75.2	240	122
Zimbabwe	-60	399	8.1	9.5	1,982	22
World	0	243,193	27,119.8	27,119.8	735,211	461,915
East Asia & Pacific	415	25,557	1,704.0	622.0	117,623	69,029
Europe & Central Asia	1,026	85,289	382.6	7,018.8	204,686	195,149
Latin America & Caribbean	-282	8,946	529.5	269.2	131,624	10,659
Middle East & North Africa	-175	38,865	7,553.8	8,962.9	66,384	89,869
North America	1,739	54,482	0.5	469.3	9,450	80,906
South Asia	-2,182	11,377	3,047.5	2,709.8	157,019	9,081
Sub-Saharan Africa	-544	18,677	7,822.2	7,067.8	48,424	7,222
Low income	-668	9,366	9,925.3	5,644.0	21,520	3,133
Lower middle income	-3,002	29,803	3,005.2	9,067.5	372,738	23,576
Upper middle income	400	45,118	1,041.5	8,027.9	182,262	73,009
High income	4,300	157,500	36.8	3,686.1	167,815	362,880

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