Net migration
Total number of immigrants less the annual number of emigrants, including citizens and noncitizens.
- World total
- 24,459
- across 217 countries, 2025
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
No data available
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2025.
Highest 5
- 1.7M
- 1.23M
- 421,693
- 389,911
- 326,204
Source: World Bank — WDI · SM.POP.NETM
Lowest 5
- 213Germany-334,072
- 214Nepal-364,699
- 215Bangladesh-402,100
- 216India-495,753
- 217Pakistan-1.24M
Source: World Bank — WDI · SM.POP.NETM
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Definition
- Definition
- Total number of immigrants less the annual number of emigrants, including citizens and noncitizens.
- Unit
- people
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- sum · No direction
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source217 countries · 14,322 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0
Net migration is the net total of migrants during the period, that is, the number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants, including both citizens and noncitizens. Source: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=net-migration" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'