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Net Migration Rate, 1956

1956, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The net migration rate is the number of people who moved into a country in a year minus the number who left, for every 1,000 people living there. A positive figure means more arrivals than departures; a negative one means more people left than came.

Net Migration Rate, 1956 covers 222 countries. Andorra is highest, at 84.559; Macau is lowest, at -48.205. The middle country reads -0.331. Against 1955, 196 values changed (91 up, 105 down), the same countries are covered.

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Net Migration Rate · Data for 1956

HighestAndorra

84.559

LowestMacau

-48.205

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Net Migration Rate, 1956, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Net Migration Rate, 1956: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
AndorraANDSouthern Europe84.559
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia72.374
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean43.332
JordanJORWestern Asia36.743
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia30.048
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia28.355
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia17.461
MonacoMCOWestern Europe17.181
NauruNRUMicronesia15.916
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia15.673
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe15.232
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa13.341
IsraelISRWestern Asia12.464
BahamasBHSCaribbean11.640
CanadaCANNorthern America10.263
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia10.219
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand9.983
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia8.967
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe7.413
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia7.122
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia7.043
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa6.844
BahrainBHRWestern Asia6.722
GreenlandGRLNorthern America6.438
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia6.422

02In 1956

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Andorra84.559
  2. Kuwait72.374
  3. Sint Maarten43.332
  4. Jordan36.743
  5. United Arab Emirates30.048

Lowest

  1. Macau-48.205
  2. Saint Lucia-36.297
  3. Anguilla-30.620
  4. American Samoa-30.547
  5. Niue-26.981

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads -0.331. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031955 → 1956

Since 1955

What changed between 1955 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 196values changed, of 222 in both
  • 91 · 105rose · fell
  • 26unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Hungary0.305 → -14.721−15.026
  • Kuwait80.579 → 72.374−8.205
  • Tunisia-0.520 → -6.592−6.072
  • Andorra89.044 → 84.559−4.485
  • Macau-43.967 → -48.205−4.238

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1956.

  • 196 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 26 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1956). Net Migration Rate, 1956 [data set], describing 1956. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/net-migration-rate/1956

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