Does Your Country Have More Immigrants Or Emigrants?

The map above shows whether your country has more immigrants (people born abroad who live there now) or emigrants (people born in the country but now living in another one).

The data is for 2024 and comes from the United Nations International Migrant Stock report.

On the surface the map is what you’d expect, North America, Australia, Western Europe and the Gulf States have more immigrants than emigrants.

However, there some surprising things.

For example, North Korea has more immigrants than emigrants, while the much richer South Korea is the opposite. Although it should be noted that the South Korea’s absolute numbers of each are much larger than the North.

Also, Portugal is the lone exception in Western Europe to have more emigrants than immigrants.

Some more findings and full data below:

Top 10 Countries By Total Number of Emigrants

India – 18,533,845
China – 11,701,619
Mexico – 11,596,529
Ukraine – 9,769,216
Russian Federation – 9,134,094
Syrian Arab Republic – 8,927,523
Bangladesh – 8,706,947
Venezuela – 8,328,514
Afghanistan – 7,528,994
Philippines – 6,988,383

Top 10 Countries By Total Number of Immigrants

United States of America – 52,375,047
Germany – 16,750,084
Saudi Arabia – 13,683,841
United Kingdom – 11,845,479
France – 9,186,757
Spain – 8,870,527
Canada – 8,805,839
United Arab Emirates – 8,157,000
Australia – 8,111,404
Russian Federation – 7,605,774

* Interesting to note that Russia is on both lists

Top 10 Countries By Ratio of Immigrants To Emigrants

Channel Islands – 243.70
Oman – 133.57
Qatar – 117.91
Liechtenstein – 79.97
Guam – 71.38
Saudi Arabia – 57.81
Réunion – 57.50
Cayman Islands – 52.44
United Arab Emirates – 49.12
Isle of Man – 48.12

Full data:

Country	Number of Emigrants	Number of Immigrants	Net (Immigrants - Emigrants)	Ratio of Immigrants to Emigrants
Afghanistan	7,528,994	98,110	-7,430,884	0.01
Albania	1,216,628	46,377	-1,170,251	0.04
Algeria	1,780,399	259,458	-1,520,941	0.15
American Samoa	3,362	23,684	20,322	7.04
Andorra	1,982	48,408	46,426	24.42
Angola	616,967	676,507	59,540	1.10
Anguilla	1,614	5,918	4,304	3.67
Antigua and Barbuda	13,111	30,473	17,362	2.32
Argentina	1,183,381	1,958,039	774,658	1.65
Armenia	637,604	274,645	-362,959	0.43
Aruba	29,305	73,494	44,189	2.51
Australia	430,718	8,111,404	7,680,686	18.83
Austria	430,560	2,327,064	1,896,504	5.40
Azerbaijan	810,116	218,460	-591,656	0.27
Bahamas	2,174	67,285	65,111	30.95
Bahrain	57,160	840,202	783,042	14.70
Bangladesh	8,706,947	2,906,338	-5,800,609	0.33
Barbados	19,558	35,187	15,629	1.80
Belarus	790,232	1,054,604	264,372	1.33
Belgium	521,884	2,349,032	1,827,148	4.50
Belize	7,383	68,706	61,323	9.31
Benin	726,530	418,202	-308,328	0.58
Bermuda	1,100	20,171	19,071	18.34
Bhutan	66,145	55,705	-10,440	0.84
Bolivia	783,473	183,234	-600,239	0.23
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	4,744	30,676	25,932	6.47
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,608,324	34,120	-1,574,204	0.02
Botswana	16,731	116,402	99,671	6.96
Brazil	2,194,325	1,406,299	-788,026	0.64
British Virgin Islands	6,185	24,520	18,335	3.96
Brunei Darussalam	46,552	119,933	73,381	2.58
Bulgaria	1,252,234	299,100	-953,134	0.24
Burkina Faso	2,050,050	739,820	-1,310,230	0.36
Burundi	576,530	387,101	-189,429	0.67
Cabo Verde	146,396	16,515	-129,881	0.11
Cambodia	778,793	83,925	-694,868	0.11
Cameroon	409,677	642,948	233,271	1.57
Canada	1,347,381	8,805,839	7,458,458	6.54
Cayman Islands	609	31,935	31,326	52.44
Central African Republic	905,808	94,556	-811,252	0.10
Chad	292,298	1,269,673	977,375	4.34
Channel Islands	351	85,539	85,188	243.70
Chile	444,451	1,538,324	1,093,873	3.46
China	11,701,619	1,638,718	-10,062,901	0.14
China, Hong Kong SAR	1,240,250	3,063,318	1,823,068	2.47
China, Macao SAR	149,247	426,862	277,615	2.86
China, Taiwan Province of China	832,507	1,136,425	303,918	1.37
Colombia	3,652,238	3,063,518	-588,720	0.84
Comoros	367,574	12,449	-355,125	0.03
Congo	231,080	385,589	154,509	1.67
Cook Islands	20,288	4,937	-15,351	0.24
Costa Rica	50,982	628,404	577,422	12.33
Côte d'Ivoire	1,211,422	2,880,839	1,669,417	2.38
Croatia	826,166	527,831	-298,335	0.64
Cuba	1,879,613	2,144	-1,877,469	0.00
Curaçao	10,103	80,020	69,917	7.92
Cyprus	80,760	202,062	121,302	2.50
Czechia	583,214	1,025,199	441,985	1.76
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	46,379	50,439	4,060	1.09
Democratic Republic of the Congo	2,097,387	1,085,090	-1,012,297	0.52
Denmark	124,665	847,475	722,810	6.80
Djibouti	3,576	125,996	122,420	35.23
Dominica	21,384	8,440	-12,944	0.39
Dominican Republic	1,917,153	738,667	-1,178,486	0.39
Ecuador	1,243,065	747,749	-495,316	0.60
Egypt	4,820,002	1,139,820	-3,680,182	0.24
El Salvador	1,834,670	43,342	-1,791,328	0.02
Equatorial Guinea	136,825	248,930	112,105	1.82
Eritrea	912,792	12,512	-900,280	0.01
Estonia	124,216	203,046	78,830	1.63
Eswatini	11,561	33,268	21,707	2.88
Ethiopia	1,240,645	1,168,455	-72,190	0.94
Falkland Islands	93	2,333	2,240	25.09
Faroe Islands	12,282	8,101	-4,181	0.66
Fiji	181,025	14,362	-166,663	0.08
Finland	181,834	514,432	332,598	2.83
France	2,547,158	9,186,757	6,639,599	3.61
French Guiana	4,490	130,924	126,434	29.16
French Polynesia	2,008	30,099	28,091	14.99
Gabon	61,160	449,746	388,586	7.35
Gambia	72,452	236,137	163,685	3.26
Georgia	496,486	81,582	-414,904	0.16
Germany	4,297,233	16,750,084	12,452,851	3.90
Ghana	1,055,494	532,286	-523,208	0.50
Gibraltar	474	11,291	10,817	23.82
Greece	780,112	1,423,964	643,852	1.83
Greenland	18,491	5,812	-12,679	0.31
Grenada	26,300	7,340	-18,960	0.28
Guadeloupe	12,374	89,610	77,236	7.24
Guam	1,179	84,159	82,980	71.38
Guatemala	1,460,232	92,732	-1,367,500	0.06
Guinea	508,203	117,416	-390,787	0.23
Guinea-Bissau	103,999	15,064	-88,935	0.14
Guyana	469,649	54,175	-415,474	0.12
Haiti	2,017,692	19,581	-1,998,111	0.01
Holy See	313	496	183	1.58
Honduras	1,397,584	39,901	-1,357,683	0.03
Hungary	538,794	689,565	150,771	1.28
Iceland	23,326	98,818	75,492	4.24
India	18,533,845	4,796,255	-13,737,590	0.26
Indonesia	3,745,148	445,726	-3,299,422	0.12
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	1,733,468	3,840,654	2,107,186	2.22
Iraq	2,313,028	370,980	-1,942,048	0.16
Ireland	714,405	1,216,237	501,832	1.70
Isle of Man	908	43,693	42,785	48.12
Israel	324,804	2,091,569	1,766,765	6.44
Italy	2,941,444	6,553,671	3,612,227	2.23
Jamaica	1,248,512	24,007	-1,224,505	0.02
Japan	1,008,173	3,409,529	2,401,356	3.38
Jordan	659,204	5,280,168	4,620,964	8.01
Kazakhstan	2,796,572	2,089,797	-706,775	0.75
Kenya	540,466	992,536	452,070	1.84
Kiribati	6,306	3,302	-3,004	0.52
Kuwait	167,850	3,323,191	3,155,341	19.80
Kyrgyzstan	540,573	194,816	-345,757	0.36
Lao People's Democratic Republic	660,258	51,446	-608,812	0.08
Latvia	161,014	220,471	59,457	1.37
Lebanon	681,720	1,422,583	740,863	2.09
Lesotho	246,938	15,039	-231,899	0.06
Liberia	145,919	72,423	-73,496	0.50
Libya	156,874	897,751	740,877	5.72
Liechtenstein	346	27,669	27,323	79.97
Lithuania	459,268	175,194	-284,074	0.38
Luxembourg	61,859	344,309	282,450	5.57
Madagascar	212,455	38,625	-173,830	0.18
Malawi	427,573	186,719	-240,854	0.44
Malaysia	2,433,875	3,806,514	1,372,639	1.56
Maldives	2,773	75,099	72,326	27.08
Mali	1,292,519	545,323	-747,196	0.42
Malta	43,940	199,466	155,526	4.54
Marshall Islands	400	3,309	2,909	8.27
Martinique	12,893	68,187	55,294	5.29
Mauritania	91,705	195,937	104,232	2.14
Mauritius	114,314	29,142	-85,172	0.25
Mayotte	6,960	143,528	136,568	20.62
Mexico	11,596,529	1,726,089	-9,870,440	0.15
Micronesia	29,390	123,424	94,034	4.20
Micronesia	13,568	2,894	-10,674	0.21
Monaco	36,682	27,106	-9,576	0.74
Mongolia	175,596	22,589	-153,007	0.13
Montenegro	90,678	92,237	1,559	1.02
Montserrat	3,341	1,402	-1,939	0.42
Morocco	3,627,829	111,069	-3,516,760	0.03
Mozambique	702,796	353,143	-349,653	0.50
Myanmar	4,320,462	79,052	-4,241,410	0.02
Namibia	40,371	116,035	75,664	2.87
Nauru	2,484	2,548	64	1.03
Nepal	2,637,195	470,719	-2,166,476	0.18
Netherlands	631,391	2,956,518	2,325,127	4.68
New Caledonia	5,082	76,738	71,656	15.10
New Zealand	679,772	1,467,989	788,217	2.16
Nicaragua	905,251	43,757	-861,494	0.05
Niger	439,378	449,236	9,858	1.02
Nigeria	2,094,265	1,403,281	-690,984	0.67
Niue	4,955	588	-4,367	0.12
North Macedonia	534,616	150,902	-383,714	0.28
Northern Mariana Islands	2,779	22,000	19,221	7.92
Norway	120,891	1,012,404	891,513	8.37
Oman	17,095	2,283,366	2,266,271	133.57
Pakistan	6,915,057	4,175,958	-2,739,099	0.60
Palau	2,674	5,212	2,538	1.95
Panama	194,816	477,749	282,933	2.45
Papua New Guinea	35,050	31,171	-3,879	0.89
Paraguay	746,362	180,837	-565,525	0.24
Peru	1,672,482	1,837,219	164,737	1.10
Philippines	6,988,383	87,212	-6,901,171	0.01
Poland	4,572,613	1,739,901	-2,832,712	0.38
Portugal	1,799,179	1,127,184	-671,995	0.63
Puerto Rico	1,948,223	223,323	-1,724,900	0.11
Qatar	19,821	2,337,000	2,317,179	117.91
Republic of Korea	2,030,473	1,811,507	-218,966	0.89
Republic of Moldova	864,257	188,207	-676,050	0.22
Réunion	2,357	135,534	133,177	57.50
Romania	4,583,819	655,579	-3,928,240	0.14
Russian Federation	9,134,094	7,605,774	-1,528,320	0.83
Rwanda	539,046	513,316	-25,730	0.95
Saint Helena	591	492	-99	0.83
Saint Kitts and Nevis	13,872	7,958	-5,914	0.57
Saint Lucia	21,706	8,079	-13,627	0.37
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	156	1,008	852	6.46
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	35,264	4,820	-30,444	0.14
Samoa	119,313	3,843	-115,470	0.03
San Marino	1,991	5,838	3,847	2.93
Sao Tome and Principe	41,433	1,955	-39,478	0.05
Saudi Arabia	236,699	13,683,841	13,447,142	57.81
Senegal	741,357	281,867	-459,490	0.38
Serbia	963,307	712,550	-250,757	0.74
Seychelles	22,191	13,261	-8,930	0.60
Sierra Leone	63,631	49,997	-13,634	0.79
Singapore	269,613	2,841,665	2,572,052	10.54
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	2,464	30,148	27,684	12.24
Slovakia	389,909	323,991	-65,918	0.83
Slovenia	78,808	315,122	236,314	4.00
Solomon Islands	8,352	2,469	-5,883	0.30
Somalia	1,935,594	77,972	-1,857,622	0.04
South Africa	1,005,800	2,631,100	1,625,300	2.62
South Sudan	3,168,836	914,001	-2,254,835	0.29
Spain	1,623,550	8,870,527	7,246,977	5.46
Sri Lanka	1,492,103	40,698	-1,451,405	0.03
State of Palestine	4,233,248	272,481	-3,960,767	0.06
Sudan	3,786,603	2,397,113	-1,389,490	0.63
Suriname	258,026	51,902	-206,124	0.20
Sweden	223,508	2,272,158	2,048,650	10.17
Switzerland	512,547	2,773,840	2,261,293	5.41
Syrian Arab Republic	8,927,523	896,042	-8,031,481	0.10
Tajikistan	514,478	276,777	-237,701	0.54
Thailand	1,178,757	3,179,399	2,000,642	2.70
Timor-Leste	109,613	8,303	-101,310	0.08
Togo	584,790	281,994	-302,796	0.48
Tokelau	688	1,282	594	1.86
Tonga	53,237	3,581	-49,656	0.07
Trinidad and Tobago	323,630	113,478	-210,152	0.35
Tunisia	715,249	63,201	-652,048	0.09
Türkiye	3,130,337	7,083,501	3,953,164	2.26
Turkmenistan	365,787	193,763	-172,024	0.53
Turks and Caicos Islands	2,663	28,455	25,792	10.69
Tuvalu	1,239	246	-993	0.20
Uganda	578,034	2,057,759	1,479,725	3.56
Ukraine	9,769,216	5,064,173	-4,705,043	0.52
United Arab Emirates	166,074	8,157,000	7,990,926	49.12
United Kingdom	4,804,944	11,845,479	7,040,535	2.47
United Republic of Tanzania	225,017	462,371	237,354	2.05
United States of America	3,186,999	52,375,047	49,188,048	16.43
United States Virgin Islands	4,047	56,779	52,732	14.03
Uruguay	263,285	160,064	-103,221	0.61
Uzbekistan	2,114,480	1,154,963	-959,517	0.55
Vanuatu	15,202	3,315	-11,887	0.22
Venezuela	8,328,514	1,263,304	-7,065,210	0.15
Viet Nam	3,693,537	326,418	-3,367,119	0.09
Wallis and Futuna Islands	12,822	2,032	-10,790	0.16
Western Sahara	202,107	5,628	-196,479	0.03
Yemen	2,480,734	392,997	-2,087,737	0.16
Zambia	122,793	249,205	126,412	2.03
Zimbabwe	1,519,324	429,108	-1,090,216	0.28