Net migration

The people who moved in minus the people who moved out, each year.

Net migration is the number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants in a year, including citizens and foreigners. A positive number means more people arrived than left. The UN Population Division estimates it in its World Population Prospects from censuses, registers and surveys, often as the difference between population change and births minus deaths, and the World Bank republishes it. The totals are large for large countries: the United States gains more people than Luxembourg could.

• Demography
• Migration
• Population
• UN
• Country
• Year