New Zealand - Net Migration 1978
-28,783
−6,086 from 1977
New Zealand's net migration was -28,783 in 1978, decreased +6,086 from -22,697 in 1977. This was the 33rd highest globally.
Global Ranking - 1978▾
| Rank | Country | Value | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Bangladesh | -486,721 | -6.2% |
| 2nd | Mexico | -243,714 | -1.8% |
| 3rd | India | -210,444 | -135.6% |
| 4th | Türkiye | -182,818 | -20.4% |
| 5th | Zimbabwe | -170,727 | -91.2% |
| 6th | Philippines | -140,372 | -13.6% |
| 7th | Afghanistan | -117,186 | -41.0% |
| 8th | Korea | -85,721 | 5.5% |
| 9th | Cambodia | -84,695 | -52.6% |
| 10th | Egypt, Arab Republic of | -73,664 | 0.1% |
| 11th | Colombia | -67,870 | -0.3% |
| 12th | Poland | -62,936 | -87.9% |
| 13th | Bulgaria | -62,769 | -425.0% |
| 14th | Kenya | -60,718 | -5.6% |
| 15th | Sri Lanka | -50,189 | -10.6% |
| 16th | Guatemala | -48,309 | -4.5% |
| 17th | Japan | -47,996 | 2.2% |
| 18th | Central African Republic | -37,874 | -5.8% |
| 19th | Senegal | -36,559 | -2.3% |
| 20th | Myanmar | -36,055 | 4.8% |
| 21st | Chad | -34,856 | -1.6% |
| 22nd | Uganda | -34,606 | 8.1% |
| 23rd | Mali | -31,520 | -9.2% |
| 24th | El Salvador | -31,463 | -9.5% |
| 25th | Romania | -31,427 | -11.7% |
| 26th | Guinea | -30,933 | 0.2% |
| 27th | Morocco | -30,600 | 4.9% |
| 28th | Syrian Arab Republic | -30,567 | -8.1% |
| 29th | Zambia | -30,284 | 0.5% |
| 30th | Cuba | -29,839 | 18.9% |
| 31st | Chile | -29,644 | 0.0% |
| 32nd | Ukraine | -29,180 | -17.9% |
| 33rd | New Zealand | -28,783 | -26.8% |
| 34th | Lao PDR | -27,208 | -1.1% |
| 35th | Tunisia | -26,968 | -93.9% |
| 36th | Yemen, Republic of | -26,524 | -4.8% |
| 37th | Papua New Guinea | -25,208 | -2.0% |
| 38th | Brazil | -23,416 | -20.2% |
| 39th | Namibia | -22,827 | -484.3% |
| 40th | Haiti | -21,809 | -1.9% |
| 41st | Peru | -19,939 | 20.6% |
| 42nd | Burkina Faso | -19,274 | -1.9% |
| 43rd | Togo | -19,163 | 3.5% |
| 44th | Jamaica | -18,483 | 0.8% |
| 45th | Dominican Republic | -16,909 | 1.0% |
| 46th | West Bank and Gaza | -16,654 | -1.3% |
| 47th | Malaysia | -15,059 | 9.3% |
| 48th | Argentina | -14,665 | 0.1% |
| 49th | Uruguay | -14,611 | -2.3% |
| 50th | Honduras | -14,537 | -5.5% |
| 51st | Rwanda | -13,838 | -24.8% |
| 52nd | Jordan | -13,701 | 9.5% |
| 53rd | Congo, Republic of | -13,356 | -5.4% |
| 54th | Sierra Leone | -13,073 | -5.4% |
| 55th | Nicaragua | -12,273 | -10.7% |
| 56th | Guyana | -11,841 | -1.8% |
| 57th | Suriname | -11,389 | 0.0% |
| 58th | Belarus | -11,143 | -126.3% |
| 59th | China | -9,916 | 35.3% |
| 60th | Georgia | -9,755 | -18.8% |
| 61st | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -9,382 | 20.7% |
| 62nd | Finland | -9,348 | -64.1% |
| 63rd | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | -8,462 | -9.7% |
| 64th | Trinidad and Tobago | -8,397 | -3.0% |
| 65th | Austria | -8,131 | -161.4% |
| 66th | Croatia | -7,329 | 0.1% |
| 67th | Kyrgyz Republic | -6,988 | -3.9% |
| 68th | Cabo Verde | -6,833 | -1.5% |
| 69th | Viet Nam | -6,592 | -113.3% |
| 70th | Switzerland | -6,552 | 70.9% |
| 71st | Madagascar | -5,874 | 1.4% |
| 72nd | Slovak Republic | -4,689 | -1.5% |
| 73rd | Equatorial Guinea | -4,553 | 36.2% |
| 74th | Paraguay | -4,066 | 3.2% |
| 75th | Benin | -3,731 | 7.2% |
| 76th | Niger | -3,494 | -0.5% |
| 77th | Puerto Rico (US) | -3,337 | 15.0% |
| 78th | Mauritius | -3,129 | 16.5% |
| 79th | Eswatini | -3,040 | -7.1% |
| 80th | Samoa | -3,022 | -5.4% |
| 81st | Mauritania | -2,998 | 0.0% |
| 82nd | South Sudan | -2,998 | -50.1% |
| 83rd | Panama | -2,811 | -0.7% |
| 84th | Barbados | -2,725 | 1.9% |
| 85th | Grenada | -2,647 | -0.2% |
| 86th | Spain | -2,504 | -88.0% |
| 87th | Tonga | -2,457 | -8.1% |
| 88th | Curaçao | -1,972 | -1.2% |
| 89th | Belize | -1,960 | -6.3% |
| 90th | Kiribati | -1,858 | -0.2% |
| 91st | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | -1,832 | -0.6% |
| 92nd | St. Lucia | -1,635 | -6.0% |
| 93rd | Fiji | -1,609 | -3.8% |
| 94th | Ecuador | -1,518 | -10.2% |
| 95th | Serbia | -1,481 | 24.2% |
| 96th | New Caledonia | -1,334 | 1.2% |
| 97th | Malta | -1,302 | 18.5% |
| 98th | Cameroon | -1,282 | 93.8% |
| 99th | Montenegro | -1,103 | 19.1% |
| 100th | Antigua and Barbuda | -889 | 5.6% |
| 101st | St. Kitts and Nevis | -817 | 0.4% |
| 102nd | Czechia | -795 | 59.6% |
| 103rd | Iceland | -781 | 27.6% |
| 104th | Aruba | -745 | -2.3% |
| 105th | Cyprus | -735 | -41.1% |
| 106th | Maldives | -716 | -73.4% |
| 107th | Dominica | -705 | -11.2% |
| 108th | Seychelles | -587 | -519.3% |
| 109th | Greenland | -490 | 6.5% |
| 110th | North Macedonia | -462 | 32.4% |
| 111th | American Samoa | -355 | -10.9% |
| 112th | Turkmenistan | -350 | -165.2% |
| 113th | Bermuda | -293 | -34.4% |
| 114th | Micronesia, Federated States of | -291 | 61.4% |
| 115th | Marshall Islands | -286 | -8.3% |
| 116th | Palau | -285 | 2.4% |
| 117th | São Tomé and Principe | -279 | -9.4% |
| 118th | Guam | -230 | 35.9% |
| 119th | Gibraltar | -181 | -24.8% |
| 120th | British Virgin Islands | -144 | -4.3% |
| 121st | Northern Mariana Islands | -119 | 17.9% |
| 122nd | Vanuatu | -15 | -400.0% |
| 123rd | Lebanon | 0 | - |
| 124th | Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of | 0 | - |
| 125th | St. Martin (French part) | 11 | -57.7% |
| 126th | Nauru | 40 | 25.0% |
| 127th | Turks and Caicos Islands | 74 | 8.8% |
| 128th | Faroe Islands | 106 | 3,633.3% |
| 129th | Tuvalu | 119 | -20.1% |
| 130th | Liechtenstein | 125 | -10.7% |
| 131st | Solomon Islands | 174 | 9.4% |
| 132nd | San Marino | 199 | -87.4% |
| 133rd | Channel Islands | 249 | -2.0% |
| 134th | Hungary | 290 | 637.0% |
| 135th | Nepal | 346 | -83.6% |
| 136th | Monaco | 355 | -12.8% |
| 137th | Cayman Islands | 413 | -9.4% |
| 138th | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 418 | 1.0% |
| 139th | Singapore | 436 | -84.2% |
| 140th | Bahamas, The | 563 | -3.9% |
| 141st | Brunei Darussalam | 791 | -31.6% |
| 142nd | Comoros | 909 | -34.0% |
| 143rd | Virgin Islands (US) | 940 | -20.8% |
| 144th | Gabon | 990 | 1.9% |
| 145th | Lesotho | 1,047 | 40.3% |
| 146th | Isle of Man | 1,107 | 0.8% |
| 147th | French Polynesia | 1,136 | 58.9% |
| 148th | Andorra | 1,247 | -3.0% |
| 149th | Mongolia | 1,833 | -65.8% |
| 150th | Eritrea | 1,985 | 0.0% |
| 151st | Slovenia | 2,113 | -18.2% |
| 152nd | Costa Rica | 2,296 | 3.1% |
| 153rd | Bhutan | 2,700 | 0.0% |
| 154th | Luxembourg | 3,155 | 11.5% |
| 155th | Albania | 3,230 | 327.9% |
| 156th | Moldova | 3,483 | 7.3% |
| 157th | Liberia | 3,500 | -1.5% |
| 158th | United Kingdom | 3,783 | 117.5% |
| 159th | Norway | 3,823 | -21.1% |
| 160th | Gambia, The | 4,493 | 13.2% |
| 161st | Tajikistan | 5,006 | -37.4% |
| 162nd | Macao SAR, China | 5,011 | -2.7% |
| 163rd | Denmark | 5,678 | 2.3% |
| 164th | Kosovo | 6,851 | 40.5% |
| 165th | Bahrain | 6,974 | -0.6% |
| 166th | Estonia | 7,234 | 0.6% |
| 167th | Lithuania | 7,328 | -18.3% |
| 168th | Latvia | 7,399 | -38.3% |
| 169th | Iraq | 7,434 | -9.4% |
| 170th | Burundi | 8,247 | 337.7% |
| 171st | Qatar | 10,434 | -0.1% |
| 172nd | Belgium | 10,828 | 3.5% |
| 173rd | Timor-Leste | 10,967 | 2.9% |
| 174th | Oman | 11,946 | 13.2% |
| 175th | Sweden | 13,807 | -41.3% |
| 176th | Azerbaijan | 14,836 | -62.0% |
| 177th | Ireland | 15,543 | 7.2% |
| 178th | Israel | 15,556 | 22.0% |
| 179th | Djibouti | 17,788 | -1.0% |
| 180th | Ghana | 18,041 | 18.4% |
| 181st | France | 18,692 | -58.4% |
| 182nd | Algeria | 19,317 | 260.4% |
| 183rd | Botswana | 26,015 | 89.8% |
| 184th | Netherlands | 26,639 | 34.5% |
| 185th | Tanzania | 27,307 | -45.4% |
| 186th | Uzbekistan | 27,783 | -39.1% |
| 187th | Côte d'Ivoire | 31,822 | 41.7% |
| 188th | Guinea-Bissau | 32,936 | -2.9% |
| 189th | Portugal | 34,345 | -9.1% |
| 190th | Malawi | 36,225 | 84.5% |
| 191st | Kuwait | 39,159 | 2.4% |
| 192nd | Italy | 43,932 | 4.0% |
| 193rd | Australia | 45,832 | 2.0% |
| 194th | Hong Kong SAR, China | 45,843 | -4.4% |
| 195th | Indonesia | 45,911 | 0.7% |
| 196th | Canada | 52,781 | -25.0% |
| 197th | Armenia | 53,277 | 0.4% |
| 198th | Greece | 60,775 | 216.7% |
| 199th | Angola | 61,200 | 0.1% |
| 200th | Libya | 61,684 | 6.6% |
| 201st | South Africa | 62,121 | -2.5% |
| 202nd | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 70,088 | 2.9% |
| 203rd | Thailand | 82,011 | -7.8% |
| 204th | United Arab Emirates | 82,359 | 1.5% |
| 205th | Mozambique | 95,859 | 5.2% |
| 206th | Saudi Arabia | 105,263 | 9.6% |
| 207th | Russian Federation | 108,882 | -11.0% |
| 208th | Nigeria | 111,258 | -13.8% |
| 209th | Pakistan | 111,386 | 30.7% |
| 210th | Germany | 117,167 | 245.8% |
| 211th | Kazakhstan | 131,248 | -2.8% |
| 212th | Sudan | 177,153 | 202.6% |
| 213th | European Union | 182,960 | -9.4% |
| 214th | Congo, Democratic Republic of | 268,974 | 1,120.6% |
| 215th | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 402,005 | 18,425.6% |
| 216th | United States | 556,521 | -3.6% |
FAQ
What was New Zealand's net migration in 1978?▾
New Zealand's net migration in 1978 was -28,783. This ranked 33rd globally.
How did New Zealand's net migration change in 1978?▾
New Zealand's net migration decreased by 26.8% in 1978 compared to 1977.
Which country had the highest net migration in 1978?▾
United States had the highest net migration in 1978 at 556,521.
What is the net migration of New Zealand in 1978?▾
The net migration of New Zealand in 1978 was -28,783. This ranked 33rd globally.
How does 1978 compare to 1977 for New Zealand's net migration?▾
New Zealand's net migration went from -22,697 in 1977 to -28,783 in 1978, a 26.8% decrease.
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