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	2019	2019	2019	2019

Afghanistan	-315	382	2,728.9	72.2	829	217
Albania	-70	58	15.0	0.1	1,473	120
Algeria	-50	242	4.5	98.6	1,786	82
American Samoa	..	23	..	..	..	..
Andorra	..	42	..	..	..	..
Angola	32	107	8.2	25.8	3	549
Antigua and Barbuda	0	28	0.1	..	25	57
Argentina	24	2,086	0.1	3.9	528	647
Armenia	-25	191	11.0	18.0	1,528	363
Aruba	1	36	..	..	34	113
Australia	791	6,764	0.0	76.8	1,754	7,441
Austria	325	1,492	0.0	136.0	3,045	5,874
Azerbaijan	6	264	11.6	1.1	1,275	622
Bahamas, The	5	59	0.5	0.0	..	200
Bahrain	239	704	0.6	0.3	..	3,269
Bangladesh	-1,848	1,423	22.9	854.8	18,364	83
Barbados	0	34	0.2	..	108	..
Belarus	44	1,083	3.4	2.7	1,419	186
Belgium	240	1,388	0.0	61.7	12,157	5,319
Belize	6	54	0.1	0.0	97	42
Benin	-10	245	0.7	1.2	205	94
Bermuda	..	19	..	..	1,547	199
Bhutan	2	51	7.0	..	57	69
Bolivia	-48	143	0.5	0.9	1,332	295
Bosnia and Herzegovina	-108	35	16.6	5.2	2,261	84
Botswana	15	161	0.2	1.1	54	69
Brazil	106	714	1.4	32.8	3,214	2,232
Brunei Darussalam	0	103	..	..	..	..
Bulgaria	-24	102	0.6	20.4	2,342	187
Burkina Faso	-125	705	11.7	25.9	476	209
Burundi	10	287	381.5	78.5	48	19
Cabo Verde	-7	15	0.0	..	236	38
Cambodia	-150	74	12.0	0.1	1,525	279
Cameroon	-24	382	66.3	406.3	356	86
Canada	1,210	7,836	0.1	101.8	1,312	8,391
Cayman Islands	..	24	0.0	0.0	16	396
Central African Republic	-200	82	610.2	7.2	..	..
Chad	10	517	11.2	442.7	..	..
Channel Islands	7	82	..	..	..	..
Chile	559	469	0.5	2.0	70	683
China	-1,742	978	212.9	303.4	18,294	15,135
Hong Kong SAR, China	147	2,839	0.0	0.1	451	1,007
Macao SAR, China	25	343	..	..	22	2,303
Colombia	1,024	133	189.4	0.6	6,762	348
Comoros	-10	13	0.7	..	169	5
Congo, Dem. Rep.	119	546	807.4	523.7	2,076	1,004
Congo, Rep.	-20	393	13.5	25.7	0	..
Costa Rica	21	422	0.2	6.2	553	530
Cote d'Ivoire	-40	2,175	39.4	2.0	338	919
Croatia	-40	577	23.8	0.9	4,033	531
Cuba	-72	13	6.6	0.2	..	..
Curacao	3	38	0.0	0.0	176	131
Cyprus	25	196	0.0	12.3	439	835
Czech Republic	110	405	1.2	2.1	3,860	3,447
Denmark	76	573	0.0	37.5	1,336	3,312
Djibouti	5	112	2.4	19.6	79	..
Dominica	..	7	0.1	..	49	10
Dominican Republic	-150	416	0.5	0.2	7,421	854
Ecuador	182	388	1.7	104.6	3,243	655
Egypt, Arab Rep.	-190	492	27.5	258.4	26,781	472
El Salvador	-203	42	41.9	0.0	5,656	232
Equatorial Guinea	80	11	0.2	..	..	..
Eritrea	-199	16	505.1	0.2	..	..
Estonia	20	202	0.3	0.3	543	249
Eswatini	-42	32	0.2	0.9	119	27
Ethiopia	150	1,073	95.7	733.1	531	9
Faroe Islands	..	6	..	..	..	..
Fiji	-31	14	0.6	0.0	287	11
Finland	70	316	0.0	23.5	797	958
France	183	7,784	0.1	407.9	26,838	15,088
French Polynesia	-5	30	..	..	582	..
Gabon	16	268	0.4	0.5	18	..
Gambia, The	-15	193	17.8	4.3	275	18
Georgia	-50	169	7.5	1.4	2,258	170
Germany	2,719	12,006	0.1	1,146.7	16,474	24,062
Ghana	-50	399	18.4	11.9	4,054	667
Greece	-80	1,243	0.1	80.5	676	2,666
Greenland	..	6	..	..	..	..
Grenada	-1	7	0.1	..	48	55
Guam	-3	76	..	..	..	..
Guatemala	-46	76	22.8	0.4	10,656	18
Guinea	-20	228	26.9	5.0	158	83
Guinea-Bissau	-7	22	2.1	1.8	131	57
Guyana	-30	15	0.3	0.0	380	149
Haiti	-175	40	26.7	0.0	3,327	284
Honduras	-34	28	26.4	0.1	5,401	330
Hungary	30	450	4.0	5.8	4,710	1,406
Iceland	2	38	0.0	0.9	182	367
India	-2,663	5,241	12.0	195.1	83,332	7,532
Indonesia	-495	329	12.1	10.3	11,666	5,071
Iran, Islamic Rep.	-275	2,726	129.7	979.4	1,330	..
Iraq	39	354	344.5	274.0	859	664
Ireland	118	746	..	7.8	587	754
Isle of Man	..	45	..	..	..	..
Israel	50	2,012	0.5	16.1	952	6,243
Italy	745	5,789	0.1	207.6	10,459	9,577
Jamaica	-57	23	2.5	0.0	2,574	309
Japan	358	2,044	0.0	1.5	4,374	6,813
Jordan	51	3,112	2.4	2,966.1	4,389	575
Kazakhstan	-90	3,547	2.8	0.5	506	2,660
Kenya	-50	1,084	8.0	438.9	2,838	3
Kiribati	-4	3	..	..	20	1
Korea, Dem. People’s Rep.	-27	48	0.8	..	..	..
Korea, Rep.	59	1,327	0.2	3.2	7,374	10,731
Kosovo	..	..	..	..	1,249	42
Kuwait	198	2,866	1.3	0.7	26	15,299
Kyrgyz Republic	-20	204	3.0	0.3	2,411	574
Lao PDR	-74	22	6.8	..	297	106
Latvia	-74	263	0.1	0.7	1,143	241
Lebanon	-150	1,998	5.8	1,392.2	7,410	4,333
Lesotho	-50	7	0.0	0.1	495	0
Liberia	-25	114	5.4	8.2	346	251
Libya	-10	771	16.0	4.7	..	744
Liechtenstein	..	23	..	0.1	..	..
Lithuania	-164	136	0.1	1.8	1,304	602
Luxembourg	49	249	0.0	2.5	2,006	13,736
North Macedonia	-5	131	1.8	0.4	317	22
Madagascar	-8	32	0.3	0.1	408	63
Malawi	-80	215	0.6	14.1	217	29
Malaysia	250	2,514	1.2	129.1	1,638	11,377
Maldives	57	94	0.1	..	4	596
Mali	-200	363	164.5	26.7	1,034	207
Malta	5	41	0.0	8.9	263	493
Marshall Islands	..	3	0.0	..	31	24
Mauritania	25	138	37.4	84.9	64	10
Mauritius	0	29	0.2	0.0	319	798
Mexico	-300	1,193	14.6	28.5	39,022	981
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	-3	3	..	..	23	..
Moldova	-7	143	2.4	0.4	1,910	179
Monaco	..	21	0.0	0.0	..	..
Mongolia	-4	18	2.4	0.0	561	233
Montenegro	-2	83	0.7	0.7	584	123
Morocco	-257	89	4.6	6.6	6,735	133
Mozambique	-25	223	0.1	4.7	300	202
Myanmar	-817	73	1,078.3	..	2,421	179
Namibia	-24	94	0.5	3.2	61	96
Nepal	209	518	8.2	19.6	8,250	60
Netherlands	80	1,979	0.1	94.4	2,396	14,548
New Caledonia	3	64	..	..	621	..
New Zealand	74	1,040	0.0	2.7	497	912
Nicaragua	-106	40	4.4	0.3	1,686	2
Niger	20	189	3.1	180.0	320	184
Nigeria	-300	1,199	295.6	54.2	23,809	91
Northern Mariana Islands	..	22	..	..	..	..
Norway	140	742	0.0	53.9	616	4,619
Oman	437	1,845	0.0	0.3	39	9,134
Pakistan	-1,167	3,629	137.2	1,419.6	22,245	124
Palau	..	6	..	..	2	21
Panama	56	185	0.0	2.5	581	824
Papua New Guinea	-4	26	0.5	9.7	3	92
Paraguay	-83	156	0.1	1.0	666	..
Peru	495	91	2.8	2.9	3,326	..
Philippines	-336	212	0.6	0.7	35,167	226
Poland	-147	619	1.0	12.7	6,501	7,132
Portugal	-30	837	0.0	2.4	545	255
Puerto Rico	-490	275	..	..	..	..
Qatar	200	1,688	0.0	0.2	577	11,964
Romania	-370	227	1.4	3.9	8,142	486
Russian Federation	912	11,643	62.3	42.4	10,432	22,217
Rwanda	-45	442	246.7	145.1	261	72
Samoa	-14	5	..	0.0	147	17
San Marino	..	5	..	..	..	..
Sao Tome and Principe	-8	2	0.0	..	11	0
Saudi Arabia	675	10,186	1.8	0.3	334	31,197
Senegal	-100	263	17.2	14.5	2,522	592
Serbia	20	807	31.3	26.4	4,238	332
Seychelles	-1	13	0.0	..	24	73
Sierra Leone	-21	91	5.3	0.4	62	7
Singapore	135	2,544	0.0	..	0	..
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	..	27	..	0.0	48	99
Slovak Republic	7	177	1.3	1.0	2,087	351
Slovenia	10	236	0.0	0.7	611	320
Solomon Islands	-8	3	0.0	..	25	83
Somalia	-200	25	905.1	17.9	0	..
South Africa	727	3,143	0.4	89.3	890	1,052
South Sudan	-871	824	2,234.8	298.3	80	16
Spain	200	5,853	0.1	57.8	3,208	459
Sri Lanka	-490	39	110.3	1.0	6,749	1,091
St. Kitts and Nevis	..	7	0.1	0.0	26	29
St. Lucia	0	13	0.8	..	43	22
St. Martin (French part)	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	-1	5	1.0	..	47	13
Sudan	-250	503	734.9	1,055.5	522	139
Suriname	-5	47	0.0	0.0	0	28
Sweden	200	1,640	0.0	253.8	3,185	1,917
Switzerland	260	2,439	0.0	110.2	2,413	28,180
Syrian Arab Republic	-2,137	875	6,617.0	578.5	1,623	..
Tajikistan	-100	275	2.0	3.8	2,322	190
Tanzania	-200	261	0.8	242.2	435	99
Thailand	97	3,913	0.5	97.6	8,162	8,913
Timor-Leste	-27	11	0.0	..	100	293
Togo	-10	277	8.0	12.0	458	98
Tonga	-4	6	0.0	..	190	29
Trinidad and Tobago	-4	50	0.3	2.3	143	252
Tunisia	-20	57	2.1	1.7	2,050	26
Turkey	1,420	2,965	83.3	3,579.5	810	1,659
Turkmenistan	-25	196	0.5	0.0	1	..
Turks and Caicos Islands	..	12	0.0	0.0	7	129
Tuvalu	..	0	..	..	..	..
Uganda	843	749	7.5	1,359.5	1,425	418
Ukraine	50	4,835	59.8	2.2	15,788	575
United Arab Emirates	200	8,095	0.2	1.2	..	..
United Kingdom	1,303	8,543	0.1	133.1	4,215	10,360
United States	4,774	46,627	0.3	341.7	6,724	71,562
Uruguay	-15	72	0.0	0.5	102	13
Uzbekistan	-44	1,171	3.2	0.0	8,546	274
Vanuatu	1	3	..	..	35	10
Venezuela, RB	-3,266	1,404	93.3	67.7	279	..
Vietnam	-400	73	316.4	..	17,000	..
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	-2	57	..	..	..	..
West Bank and Gaza	-53	256	96.3	2,319.1	2,861	16
Yemen, Rep.	-150	344	36.5	268.5	3,771	..
Zambia	-40	128	0.3	57.5	98	104
Zimbabwe	-584	399	10.6	9.0	1,730	19
World	0	243,193	26,074.6	26,074.6	656,332	445,815
East Asia & Pacific	-2,057	25,557	1,645.1	635.8	113,270	71,143
Europe & Central Asia	7,894	85,289	352.4	6,565.8	186,176	188,232
Latin America & Caribbean	-2,606	8,946	440.0	257.9	97,632	9,942
Middle East & North Africa	-1,194	38,865	7,293.6	9,195.5	61,865	80,631
North America	5,984	54,482	0.4	443.5	9,583	80,151
South Asia	-6,215	11,377	3,026.5	2,562.3	139,829	9,771
Sub-Saharan Africa	-1,814	18,677	7,305.0	6,413.9	47,978	5,946
Low income	-4,052	9,681	16,197.6	5,867.8	21,001	2,970
Lower middle income	-10,239	26,517	2,510.7	6,583.9	316,678	15,127
Upper middle income	-1,562	49,054	1,313.9	10,198.8	165,034	83,192
High income	15,845	157,941	40.7	3,424.2	153,619	344,526

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