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Net Migration Rate, 1987

1987, 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, 1987 covers 222 countries. Saint Martin is highest, at 94.279; Mozambique is lowest, at -34.448. The middle country reads -0.308. Against 1986, 219 values changed (116 up, 103 down), the same countries are covered.

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Net Migration Rate · Data for 1987

HighestSaint Martin

94.279

LowestMozambique

-34.448

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, 1987, 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, 1987: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Saint MartinMAFCaribbean94.279
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean56.063
Northern Mariana IslandsMNPMicronesia55.098
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia44.144
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa38.611
MalawiMWIEastern Africa32.761
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean28.735
PalestinePSEWestern Asia27.016
AnguillaAIACaribbean26.816
AndorraANDSouthern Europe22.958
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean22.544
OmanOMNWestern Asia21.058
MacauMACEastern Asia20.921
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe19.940
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia19.175
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean16.600
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia15.218
QatarQATWestern Asia13.614
JordanJORWestern Asia11.368
BahrainBHRWestern Asia11.131
MonacoMCOWestern Europe10.698
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa10.608
GambiaGMBWestern Africa10.271
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia9.135
PalauPLWMicronesia8.721

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Saint Martin94.279
  2. Sint Maarten56.063
  3. Northern Mariana Islands55.098
  4. United Arab Emirates44.144
  5. Djibouti38.611

Lowest

  1. Mozambique-34.448
  2. Afghanistan-30.343
  3. Guyana-27.284
  4. Samoa-24.192
  5. Dominica-23.387

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads -0.308. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 219values changed, of 222 in both
  • 116 · 103rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

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 1987.

  • 219 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 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 (1987). Net Migration Rate, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/net-migration-rate/1987

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