Iraq - Net Migration 2012
753,907
+492,027 from 2011
Iraq's net migration was 753,907 in 2012, increased +492,027 from 261,880 in 2011. This was the 215th highest globally.
Global Ranking - 2012▾
| Rank | Country | Value | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Pakistan | -1.6M | -85.0% |
| 2nd | Syrian Arab Republic | -999,267 | -289.0% |
| 3rd | Bangladesh | -829,875 | 2.2% |
| 4th | Nepal | -371,707 | -7.0% |
| 5th | Côte d'Ivoire | -232,712 | -16.4% |
| 6th | Sudan | -232,196 | 33.1% |
| 7th | India | -198,935 | 19.5% |
| 8th | Brazil | -179,707 | 23.8% |
| 9th | Zimbabwe | -177,061 | -62.9% |
| 10th | Uganda | -175,936 | -1.7% |
| 11th | Spain | -153,486 | -352.6% |
| 12th | Jordan | -146,181 | -2,171.4% |
| 13th | Mali | -140,507 | -225.5% |
| 14th | Mexico | -128,485 | -239.7% |
| 15th | Peru | -118,863 | 19.9% |
| 16th | Central African Republic | -111,764 | -29.5% |
| 17th | Moldova | -81,215 | 1.3% |
| 18th | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -66,378 | -2.3% |
| 19th | Greece | -65,364 | -105.6% |
| 20th | Morocco | -65,251 | 3.3% |
| 21st | Mozambique | -63,131 | 0.8% |
| 22nd | Myanmar | -61,536 | 25.6% |
| 23rd | China | -58,864 | 85.9% |
| 24th | Iran, Islamic Republic of | -57,823 | 12.3% |
| 25th | Colombia | -56,070 | -20.9% |
| 26th | Cambodia | -52,874 | -3.8% |
| 27th | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | -51,833 | 84.1% |
| 28th | El Salvador | -50,546 | 5.4% |
| 29th | Tanzania | -49,875 | 41.0% |
| 30th | Eritrea | -43,269 | -31.3% |
| 31st | Senegal | -42,978 | 0.9% |
| 32nd | Kenya | -42,928 | 4.2% |
| 33rd | Sri Lanka | -41,955 | 53.8% |
| 34th | Puerto Rico (US) | -41,108 | -6.6% |
| 35th | Georgia | -39,290 | -3.8% |
| 36th | Romania | -37,589 | 63.4% |
| 37th | Portugal | -37,083 | -17.7% |
| 38th | Dominican Republic | -36,737 | -0.1% |
| 39th | Cuba | -36,101 | -2.2% |
| 40th | Guinea | -32,808 | -12.9% |
| 41st | Guatemala | -32,624 | 1.8% |
| 42nd | Haiti | -29,658 | -2.2% |
| 43rd | Lao PDR | -28,871 | 5.5% |
| 44th | Indonesia | -28,869 | 28.8% |
| 45th | Nicaragua | -27,389 | 2.9% |
| 46th | West Bank and Gaza | -26,916 | -1.0% |
| 47th | Algeria | -26,763 | -33.1% |
| 48th | Congo, Republic of | -26,643 | -606.3% |
| 49th | Bulgaria | -26,334 | -12.7% |
| 50th | Tunisia | -26,059 | -18.8% |
| 51st | Liberia | -25,710 | -128.0% |
| 52nd | Rwanda | -25,260 | 9.5% |
| 53rd | Ireland | -22,411 | 15.5% |
| 54th | Lithuania | -21,387 | 44.5% |
| 55th | Burkina Faso | -20,930 | 37.3% |
| 56th | Uzbekistan | -20,381 | 0.0% |
| 57th | Albania | -19,845 | -6.5% |
| 58th | North Macedonia | -19,083 | -6.8% |
| 59th | Serbia | -18,513 | -3,130.0% |
| 60th | Paraguay | -17,763 | 13.0% |
| 61st | Armenia | -16,782 | 3.0% |
| 62nd | Malawi | -13,561 | -11.4% |
| 63rd | Kyrgyz Republic | -12,503 | -22.9% |
| 64th | Eswatini | -12,294 | -6.0% |
| 65th | Tajikistan | -12,132 | 60.6% |
| 66th | Latvia | -11,914 | 41.0% |
| 67th | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | -11,689 | 3.4% |
| 68th | Jamaica | -10,498 | 9.3% |
| 69th | Fiji | -10,114 | 2.7% |
| 70th | Ecuador | -7,883 | 3.5% |
| 71st | Cameroon | -7,523 | 40.6% |
| 72nd | Guyana | -7,152 | 48.6% |
| 73rd | Cabo Verde | -6,779 | 6.2% |
| 74th | Botswana | -6,636 | -551.2% |
| 75th | Lesotho | -6,425 | -5.0% |
| 76th | Uruguay | -6,317 | 9.5% |
| 77th | Honduras | -5,891 | -4.0% |
| 78th | Viet Nam | -4,851 | -5.4% |
| 79th | Croatia | -4,794 | 72.5% |
| 80th | Kazakhstan | -4,512 | -42.8% |
| 81st | Comoros | -3,835 | 1.6% |
| 82nd | Estonia | -3,674 | 6.8% |
| 83rd | Mauritius | -3,663 | -48.6% |
| 84th | Kosovo | -3,403 | 62.5% |
| 85th | Samoa | -3,089 | -1.1% |
| 86th | Guam | -2,996 | -15.1% |
| 87th | Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of | -2,919 | 1.3% |
| 88th | Egypt, Arab Republic of | -2,626 | -102.1% |
| 89th | Tonga | -2,578 | -17.3% |
| 90th | Madagascar | -2,334 | -5.2% |
| 91st | Gambia, The | -2,332 | 1.2% |
| 92nd | Andorra | -2,201 | -506.3% |
| 93rd | French Polynesia | -2,182 | 16.1% |
| 94th | Togo | -1,983 | -0.8% |
| 95th | Marshall Islands | -1,759 | -16.3% |
| 96th | São Tomé and Principe | -1,739 | -7.6% |
| 97th | Micronesia, Federated States of | -1,631 | 5.0% |
| 98th | Montenegro | -1,583 | - |
| 99th | Guinea-Bissau | -1,442 | 18.1% |
| 100th | Northern Mariana Islands | -1,416 | -8.2% |
| 101st | Vanuatu | -1,369 | 1.9% |
| 102nd | Virgin Islands (US) | -1,346 | 0.9% |
| 103rd | American Samoa | -1,332 | -2.6% |
| 104th | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | -1,221 | 7.4% |
| 105th | Kiribati | -1,093 | -7.3% |
| 106th | New Zealand | -1,015 | 53.8% |
| 107th | Suriname | -1,011 | 4.6% |
| 108th | Trinidad and Tobago | -880 | 37.6% |
| 109th | Timor-Leste | -609 | -283.0% |
| 110th | Greenland | -553 | -126.6% |
| 111th | St. Martin (French part) | -470 | -30.9% |
| 112th | Dominica | -461 | -250.2% |
| 113th | Palau | -387 | 4.4% |
| 114th | Isle of Man | -277 | -354.1% |
| 115th | Iceland | -277 | 80.1% |
| 116th | Bermuda | -237 | -20.9% |
| 117th | St. Kitts and Nevis | -202 | - |
| 118th | Grenada | -197 | 30.9% |
| 119th | St. Lucia | -135 | 10.0% |
| 120th | Barbados | -64 | -18.5% |
| 121st | Nauru | -38 | 81.6% |
| 122nd | Tuvalu | 1 | -96.4% |
| 123rd | Faroe Islands | 8 | -75.0% |
| 124th | Bhutan | 20 | 104.3% |
| 125th | San Marino | 143 | -93.8% |
| 126th | Gibraltar | 155 | -27.2% |
| 127th | Antigua and Barbuda | 196 | -19.3% |
| 128th | Liechtenstein | 231 | 66.2% |
| 129th | Aruba | 317 | -4.8% |
| 130th | Brunei Darussalam | 346 | -75.3% |
| 131st | Mongolia | 351 | 169.5% |
| 132nd | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 528 | 49.6% |
| 133rd | Channel Islands | 741 | 5.1% |
| 134th | Slovak Republic | 871 | 136.4% |
| 135th | Monaco | 906 | 4.6% |
| 136th | Malta | 911 | -8.8% |
| 137th | Sierra Leone | 988 | -85.7% |
| 138th | Ghana | 1,005 | 239.6% |
| 139th | Bahamas, The | 1,047 | -24.2% |
| 140th | Cayman Islands | 1,060 | 3.5% |
| 141st | British Virgin Islands | 1,088 | -43.2% |
| 142nd | Slovenia | 1,117 | -49.0% |
| 143rd | Turks and Caicos Islands | 1,256 | 57.4% |
| 144th | Benin | 1,260 | -70.6% |
| 145th | Curaçao | 1,469 | -3.1% |
| 146th | Belize | 1,524 | -3.7% |
| 147th | Seychelles | 1,538 | -0.8% |
| 148th | Costa Rica | 1,587 | -6.4% |
| 149th | Azerbaijan | 1,986 | 17.8% |
| 150th | New Caledonia | 2,073 | 3.0% |
| 151st | Djibouti | 2,104 | 0.7% |
| 152nd | Argentina | 2,978 | 366.6% |
| 153rd | Mauritania | 4,515 | 38.0% |
| 154th | Poland | 4,635 | -89.9% |
| 155th | Libya | 5,211 | 100.9% |
| 156th | Czechia | 5,347 | -68.3% |
| 157th | Solomon Islands | 5,420 | 3.9% |
| 158th | Panama | 5,447 | 5.4% |
| 159th | Maldives | 6,800 | 2.9% |
| 160th | Macao SAR, China | 6,820 | -21.3% |
| 161st | Turkmenistan | 7,125 | 1.9% |
| 162nd | Zambia | 8,958 | -34.0% |
| 163rd | Chad | 9,514 | -67.5% |
| 164th | Luxembourg | 10,273 | -5.9% |
| 165th | Belarus | 10,903 | 91.8% |
| 166th | Namibia | 10,957 | 369.4% |
| 167th | Cyprus | 12,237 | -2.6% |
| 168th | Bahrain | 12,801 | 149.0% |
| 169th | Netherlands | 14,861 | -52.4% |
| 170th | Hungary | 15,286 | 722.3% |
| 171st | Israel | 16,549 | 58.1% |
| 172nd | Denmark | 16,871 | 25.0% |
| 173rd | Equatorial Guinea | 17,860 | 1.5% |
| 174th | Finland | 17,894 | 6.5% |
| 175th | Niger | 18,714 | 369.6% |
| 176th | Gabon | 19,973 | 5.3% |
| 177th | Yemen, Republic of | 22,349 | -17.8% |
| 178th | Burundi | 22,617 | 215.9% |
| 179th | Chile | 30,870 | 9.9% |
| 180th | Hong Kong SAR, China | 35,557 | 64.2% |
| 181st | Papua New Guinea | 37,893 | -6.9% |
| 182nd | Belgium | 45,001 | -14.2% |
| 183rd | Austria | 45,014 | 41.2% |
| 184th | Norway | 47,883 | 0.9% |
| 185th | Sweden | 52,879 | 14.8% |
| 186th | Congo, Democratic Republic of | 53,668 | 31.2% |
| 187th | Ukraine | 66,768 | 152.4% |
| 188th | Switzerland | 67,840 | 1.0% |
| 189th | Japan | 67,904 | -30.5% |
| 190th | Afghanistan | 68,628 | -82.2% |
| 191st | Nigeria | 71,138 | 4.9% |
| 192nd | Thailand | 74,033 | 11.1% |
| 193rd | Qatar | 77,091 | -0.2% |
| 194th | Singapore | 78,501 | -12.6% |
| 195th | Philippines | 95,702 | 139.9% |
| 196th | France | 103,287 | 47.2% |
| 197th | Lebanon | 124,427 | 5,439.9% |
| 198th | South Sudan | 125,771 | -35.3% |
| 199th | Kuwait | 127,777 | -27.7% |
| 200th | Angola | 130,643 | 1.4% |
| 201st | Malaysia | 134,975 | 10.4% |
| 202nd | United Kingdom | 172,088 | -24.8% |
| 203rd | Germany | 199,143 | -32.6% |
| 204th | United Arab Emirates | 225,921 | 5.0% |
| 205th | Australia | 235,776 | 19.3% |
| 206th | Canada | 243,748 | 7.3% |
| 207th | Italy | 252,524 | 27.2% |
| 208th | Türkiye | 258,623 | 275.6% |
| 209th | South Africa | 264,091 | 305.3% |
| 210th | Korea | 281,866 | 4.4% |
| 211th | Russian Federation | 285,977 | -7.6% |
| 212th | Oman | 322,812 | -34.5% |
| 213th | European Union | 414,115 | -32.1% |
| 214th | Saudi Arabia | 479,206 | -2.5% |
| 215th | Iraq | 753,907 | 187.9% |
| 216th | United States | 1.6M | 0.5% |
FAQ
What was Iraq's net migration in 2012?▾
Iraq's net migration in 2012 was 753,907. This ranked 215th globally.
How did Iraq's net migration change in 2012?▾
Iraq's net migration increased by 187.9% in 2012 compared to 2011.
Which country had the highest net migration in 2012?▾
United States had the highest net migration in 2012 at 1.6M.
What is the net migration of Iraq in 2012?▾
The net migration of Iraq in 2012 was 753,907. This ranked 215th globally.
How does 2012 compare to 2011 for Iraq's net migration?▾
Iraq's net migration went from 261,880 in 2011 to 753,907 in 2012, a 187.9% increase.
HistorySaid - pattern alert
Iraq matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 2012. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). Outcome 24 months later: 2.3%. View full analysis →
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