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Net Migration Rate, 1961

1961, 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, 1961 covers 222 countries. Qatar is highest, at 80.292; Hong Kong is lowest, at -79.313. The middle country reads -0.020. Against 1960, 208 values changed (121 up, 87 down), the same countries are covered.

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Net Migration Rate · Data for 1961

HighestQatar

80.292

LowestHong Kong

-79.313

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, 1961, 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, 1961: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
QatarQATWestern Asia80.292
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean78.801
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia71.162
AndorraANDSouthern Europe63.700
United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean52.832
NauruNRUMicronesia25.139
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia22.763
BahamasBHSCaribbean20.843
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe18.637
IsraelISRWestern Asia17.621
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa14.466
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe13.039
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa12.708
JordanJORWestern Asia12.363
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe11.863
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia10.960
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia10.344
New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia10.264
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa9.556
BermudaBMUNorthern America9.090
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia8.826
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia8.020
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia6.878
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe6.469
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia6.279

02In 1961

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Qatar80.292
  2. Sint Maarten78.801
  3. Kuwait71.162
  4. Andorra63.700
  5. United States Virgin Islands52.832

Lowest

  1. Hong Kong-79.313
  2. Saint Kitts and Nevis-40.771
  3. Grenada-26.902
  4. Niue-25.157
  5. Turks and Caicos Islands-23.659

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads -0.020. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031960 → 1961

Since 1960

What changed between 1960 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 208values changed, of 222 in both
  • 121 · 87rose · fell
  • 14unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1961.

  • 209 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 14 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 (1961). Net Migration Rate, 1961 [data set], describing 1961. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/net-migration-rate/1961

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