Belgium - Net Migration 2016
28,090
−35,446 from 2015
Belgium's net migration was 28,090 in 2016, decreased +35,446 from 63,536 in 2015. This was the 174th highest globally.
Global Ranking - 2016▾
| Rank | Country | Value | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Pakistan | -2.3M | -5.4% |
| 2nd | Bangladesh | -918,770 | -1.1% |
| 3rd | South Africa | -879,235 | -237.1% |
| 4th | South Sudan | -654,225 | -309.3% |
| 5th | Nepal | -341,748 | -54.6% |
| 6th | Philippines | -309,251 | 20.8% |
| 7th | Mexico | -304,472 | -4.6% |
| 8th | Lebanon | -247,921 | -3.4% |
| 9th | China | -153,056 | 76.3% |
| 10th | Afghanistan | -143,049 | 50.0% |
| 11th | Zimbabwe | -140,181 | 13.6% |
| 12th | Syrian Arab Republic | -124,063 | 85.0% |
| 13th | Iraq | -113,980 | -410.3% |
| 14th | Burundi | -109,296 | 53.7% |
| 15th | Brazil | -92,989 | 46.4% |
| 16th | Myanmar | -87,907 | 6.6% |
| 17th | Egypt, Arab Republic of | -71,604 | 63.0% |
| 18th | Eritrea | -55,431 | -4.7% |
| 19th | Central African Republic | -52,607 | 16.6% |
| 20th | Moldova | -51,642 | 13.1% |
| 21st | Cambodia | -51,324 | 11.7% |
| 22nd | El Salvador | -47,491 | 7.4% |
| 23rd | Mozambique | -43,398 | 17.1% |
| 24th | Puerto Rico (US) | -41,237 | 3.9% |
| 25th | Morocco | -39,302 | 51.6% |
| 26th | Dominican Republic | -36,219 | 0.4% |
| 27th | Haiti | -33,879 | -3.7% |
| 28th | Romania | -33,073 | 7.5% |
| 29th | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -32,173 | 5.2% |
| 30th | Croatia | -32,144 | -16.9% |
| 31st | Ukraine | -31,340 | -42.5% |
| 32nd | Guatemala | -30,980 | 35.7% |
| 33rd | Lithuania | -30,612 | -35.7% |
| 34th | Mali | -30,251 | 38.1% |
| 35th | Kenya | -29,728 | 69.0% |
| 36th | Indonesia | -28,991 | -1.8% |
| 37th | Saudi Arabia | -26,997 | -105.8% |
| 38th | Liberia | -26,796 | -76.5% |
| 39th | Rwanda | -24,474 | -11.9% |
| 40th | Cuba | -24,146 | 3.1% |
| 41st | North Macedonia | -24,144 | -4.9% |
| 42nd | Tunisia | -23,827 | 5.6% |
| 43rd | Nicaragua | -23,076 | 5.2% |
| 44th | West Bank and Gaza | -22,774 | 0.6% |
| 45th | Sri Lanka | -18,388 | 38.3% |
| 46th | Serbia | -18,322 | 2.5% |
| 47th | Paraguay | -16,737 | 0.6% |
| 48th | Uzbekistan | -14,839 | 10.3% |
| 49th | Congo, Republic of | -14,783 | 18.8% |
| 50th | Armenia | -14,697 | 3.5% |
| 51st | Guinea | -14,189 | 6.1% |
| 52nd | Eswatini | -12,481 | 0.8% |
| 53rd | Latvia | -12,327 | -13.9% |
| 54th | Lao PDR | -11,401 | 12.2% |
| 55th | Georgia | -10,588 | 20.5% |
| 56th | Fiji | -10,441 | -0.4% |
| 57th | Jamaica | -10,335 | 0.0% |
| 58th | Botswana | -10,286 | -7.2% |
| 59th | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | -10,071 | 4.3% |
| 60th | Bulgaria | -9,482 | -124.3% |
| 61st | Albania | -9,347 | 54.4% |
| 62nd | Kosovo | -8,937 | 83.9% |
| 63rd | Tajikistan | -8,210 | -7.2% |
| 64th | Burkina Faso | -7,598 | 61.5% |
| 65th | Lesotho | -6,766 | 4.5% |
| 66th | Honduras | -6,681 | -2.6% |
| 67th | Yemen, Republic of | -6,492 | 34.3% |
| 68th | Algeria | -6,438 | 76.7% |
| 69th | Guyana | -6,309 | 3.3% |
| 70th | Cabo Verde | -6,004 | 3.6% |
| 71st | Poland | -5,675 | -246.0% |
| 72nd | Montenegro | -5,274 | -8.5% |
| 73rd | Libya | -5,081 | 33.7% |
| 74th | Mauritius | -4,483 | -23.0% |
| 75th | Uruguay | -3,506 | 15.7% |
| 76th | Gambia, The | -3,486 | -8.1% |
| 77th | British Virgin Islands | -3,433 | -280.3% |
| 78th | Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of | -3,222 | -0.4% |
| 79th | Guam | -3,212 | -9.4% |
| 80th | Mauritania | -3,008 | 0.4% |
| 81st | Samoa | -3,008 | 2.1% |
| 82nd | Comoros | -2,938 | -4.4% |
| 83rd | Madagascar | -2,687 | -3.6% |
| 84th | New Caledonia | -2,605 | -3.0% |
| 85th | Tonga | -2,591 | 0.7% |
| 86th | Virgin Islands (US) | -2,591 | -6.5% |
| 87th | Dominica | -2,032 | -2,308.7% |
| 88th | Marshall Islands | -2,003 | -2.0% |
| 89th | Togo | -1,979 | -0.2% |
| 90th | French Polynesia | -1,802 | 5.1% |
| 91st | São Tomé and Principe | -1,793 | 0.9% |
| 92nd | Northern Mariana Islands | -1,517 | 0.8% |
| 93rd | Guinea-Bissau | -1,392 | 0.1% |
| 94th | American Samoa | -1,349 | 1.2% |
| 95th | Micronesia, Federated States of | -1,346 | 4.7% |
| 96th | Vanuatu | -1,235 | 6.7% |
| 97th | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | -1,089 | 3.1% |
| 98th | Suriname | -906 | 6.3% |
| 99th | St. Martin (French part) | -825 | -12.9% |
| 100th | Portugal | -775 | 75.8% |
| 101st | Kiribati | -756 | 26.0% |
| 102nd | Greenland | -342 | -8.6% |
| 103rd | St. Kitts and Nevis | -202 | 0.0% |
| 104th | Tuvalu | -200 | -11.7% |
| 105th | Grenada | -181 | 0.0% |
| 106th | Nauru | -105 | -22.1% |
| 107th | Trinidad and Tobago | -86 | 85.0% |
| 108th | Barbados | -65 | 0.0% |
| 109th | St. Lucia | -57 | 17.4% |
| 110th | Palau | -35 | -218.2% |
| 111th | Antigua and Barbuda | 0 | -100.0% |
| 112th | Bermuda | 0 | 100.0% |
| 113th | Liechtenstein | 63 | -61.3% |
| 114th | Hungary | 68 | -99.5% |
| 115th | Isle of Man | 113 | 135.9% |
| 116th | Timor-Leste | 208 | 1,140.0% |
| 117th | San Marino | 291 | 6.6% |
| 118th | Channel Islands | 307 | -28.9% |
| 119th | Gibraltar | 401 | 134.5% |
| 120th | Aruba | 405 | 8.6% |
| 121st | Brunei Darussalam | 415 | 16.6% |
| 122nd | Faroe Islands | 541 | 8.4% |
| 123rd | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 545 | 1.7% |
| 124th | Curaçao | 645 | -23.4% |
| 125th | Monaco | 798 | -15.0% |
| 126th | Bahamas, The | 1,002 | 0.0% |
| 127th | Estonia | 1,081 | -74.6% |
| 128th | Cayman Islands | 1,094 | -1.2% |
| 129th | Bhutan | 1,116 | 148.0% |
| 130th | Kyrgyz Republic | 1,187 | 123.4% |
| 131st | Slovenia | 1,195 | 67.8% |
| 132nd | Turks and Caicos Islands | 1,309 | -21.0% |
| 133rd | Andorra | 1,415 | 175.5% |
| 134th | Djibouti | 1,623 | -5.8% |
| 135th | Costa Rica | 1,649 | 2.0% |
| 136th | Seychelles | 1,682 | -2.2% |
| 137th | Belize | 3,313 | 107.6% |
| 138th | Slovak Republic | 3,487 | 36.8% |
| 139th | Malawi | 3,505 | 154.2% |
| 140th | Benin | 3,837 | 13.9% |
| 141st | Iceland | 4,128 | 175.4% |
| 142nd | Sierra Leone | 4,657 | 1,408.1% |
| 143rd | Azerbaijan | 4,671 | 335.3% |
| 144th | Argentina | 5,215 | -4.6% |
| 145th | Czechia | 5,465 | 8.5% |
| 146th | Mongolia | 5,633 | 30.8% |
| 147th | Solomon Islands | 6,146 | 5.0% |
| 148th | Ghana | 7,009 | 152.7% |
| 149th | Gabon | 7,398 | -38.6% |
| 150th | Macao SAR, China | 7,676 | 1.9% |
| 151st | Belarus | 8,272 | -54.3% |
| 152nd | Malta | 8,624 | -10.1% |
| 153rd | Maldives | 9,421 | 1.0% |
| 154th | Kazakhstan | 9,478 | 571.3% |
| 155th | Panama | 10,109 | 16.9% |
| 156th | Hong Kong SAR, China | 10,262 | -2.7% |
| 157th | Greece | 10,484 | 124.1% |
| 158th | Cyprus | 10,951 | -2.9% |
| 159th | Luxembourg | 12,760 | 12.2% |
| 160th | Cameroon | 13,255 | -68.4% |
| 161st | Turkmenistan | 13,365 | 34.5% |
| 162nd | Singapore | 13,737 | -67.2% |
| 163rd | Namibia | 14,002 | 9.8% |
| 164th | Niger | 14,833 | -13.0% |
| 165th | France | 15,548 | 4,606.7% |
| 166th | Equatorial Guinea | 17,107 | -3.3% |
| 167th | Finland | 17,321 | 36.9% |
| 168th | Côte d'Ivoire | 18,568 | 3,457.1% |
| 169th | Ireland | 18,967 | 41.8% |
| 170th | Chad | 21,540 | 144.0% |
| 171st | Israel | 24,308 | -18.3% |
| 172nd | Zambia | 25,860 | 59.0% |
| 173rd | Norway | 26,417 | -12.6% |
| 174th | Belgium | 28,090 | -55.8% |
| 175th | Papua New Guinea | 28,473 | -6.9% |
| 176th | Senegal | 29,498 | -14.2% |
| 177th | Jordan | 31,046 | -93.7% |
| 178th | Denmark | 33,391 | -21.0% |
| 179th | Ecuador | 35,461 | 140.8% |
| 180th | Bahrain | 46,833 | 27.2% |
| 181st | Austria | 65,976 | -42.7% |
| 182nd | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 66,630 | 244.1% |
| 183rd | Switzerland | 71,009 | -1.2% |
| 184th | Nigeria | 75,265 | 164.8% |
| 185th | New Zealand | 75,512 | 6.6% |
| 186th | India | 81,248 | 112.4% |
| 187th | Italy | 84,568 | 114.7% |
| 188th | Sudan | 84,728 | 27.5% |
| 189th | Netherlands | 88,743 | 59.7% |
| 190th | Korea | 91,568 | -66.9% |
| 191st | Angola | 91,614 | 23.5% |
| 192nd | Peru | 96,740 | 3,895.9% |
| 193rd | Colombia | 104,373 | 353.8% |
| 194th | Kuwait | 105,818 | -18.4% |
| 195th | Spain | 106,474 | 5,480.2% |
| 196th | Thailand | 112,978 | 247.6% |
| 197th | Oman | 117,538 | -12.2% |
| 198th | Sweden | 119,234 | 48.1% |
| 199th | Qatar | 119,725 | -32.5% |
| 200th | Uganda | 123,379 | 297.8% |
| 201st | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 124,017 | 822.0% |
| 202nd | Chile | 135,864 | 144.0% |
| 203rd | Tanzania | 152,194 | -24.5% |
| 204th | Viet Nam | 167,652 | 3,529.9% |
| 205th | United Arab Emirates | 195,317 | -43.0% |
| 206th | Malaysia | 222,141 | 18.4% |
| 207th | Australia | 254,648 | 19.9% |
| 208th | Japan | 314,732 | 86.3% |
| 209th | United Kingdom | 324,649 | -6.7% |
| 210th | Canada | 329,455 | 46.9% |
| 211th | Türkiye | 352,063 | -66.9% |
| 212th | Congo, Democratic Republic of | 440,748 | 2,588.6% |
| 213th | Russian Federation | 447,645 | 16.3% |
| 214th | Germany | 517,480 | -56.0% |
| 215th | European Union | 1.0M | -32.1% |
| 216th | United States | 1.9M | 9.7% |
FAQ
What was Belgium's net migration in 2016?▾
Belgium's net migration in 2016 was 28,090. This ranked 174th globally.
How did Belgium's net migration change in 2016?▾
Belgium's net migration decreased by 55.8% in 2016 compared to 2015.
Which country had the highest net migration in 2016?▾
United States had the highest net migration in 2016 at 1.9M.
What is the net migration of Belgium in 2016?▾
The net migration of Belgium in 2016 was 28,090. This ranked 174th globally.
How does 2016 compare to 2015 for Belgium's net migration?▾
Belgium's net migration went from 63,536 in 2015 to 28,090 in 2016, a 55.8% decrease.
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