Papua New Guinea - Net Migration 2020
10,703
−12,275 from 2019
Papua New Guinea's net migration was 10,703 in 2020, decreased +12,275 from 22,978 in 2019. This was the 169th highest globally.
Global Ranking - 2020▾
| Rank | Country | Value | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Bangladesh | -1.0M | 1.4% |
| 2nd | Pakistan | -559,291 | 52.5% |
| 3rd | Iran, Islamic Republic of | -180,680 | -451.0% |
| 4th | Oman | -171,635 | -46.1% |
| 5th | Kuwait | -168,379 | -93,127.1% |
| 6th | Mexico | -147,456 | 13.1% |
| 7th | Singapore | -145,556 | -16,830.6% |
| 8th | Yemen, Republic of | -97,982 | -4,702.3% |
| 9th | China | -91,577 | 86.0% |
| 10th | Zimbabwe | -89,440 | 13.3% |
| 11th | Brazil | -78,437 | 39.3% |
| 12th | Saudi Arabia | -74,725 | -139.0% |
| 13th | India | -73,806 | 92.5% |
| 14th | Myanmar | -66,213 | 34.3% |
| 15th | Sudan | -65,933 | -67.0% |
| 16th | Qatar | -50,433 | -577.7% |
| 17th | Lebanon | -47,787 | 82.1% |
| 18th | Philippines | -47,014 | -657.3% |
| 19th | Morocco | -35,474 | 61.1% |
| 20th | Belarus | -33,954 | 0.0% |
| 21st | Haiti | -33,850 | 2.2% |
| 22nd | Moldova | -33,405 | 19.0% |
| 23rd | Sri Lanka | -29,875 | -5.1% |
| 24th | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -26,840 | 3.6% |
| 25th | Mozambique | -25,864 | 47.3% |
| 26th | El Salvador | -25,213 | 54.3% |
| 27th | Central African Republic | -24,745 | 32.8% |
| 28th | Guatemala | -23,927 | 58.6% |
| 29th | North Macedonia | -23,458 | 3.1% |
| 30th | Rwanda | -22,251 | 9.1% |
| 31st | Tunisia | -19,188 | 2.2% |
| 32nd | Indonesia | -18,743 | 38.4% |
| 33rd | Tanzania | -18,587 | 70.8% |
| 34th | Dominican Republic | -17,957 | 49.8% |
| 35th | Kenya | -17,111 | 72.4% |
| 36th | Albania | -16,680 | 27.8% |
| 37th | Eritrea | -14,967 | 49.8% |
| 38th | Mali | -14,962 | 66.3% |
| 39th | Nigeria | -14,497 | 85.5% |
| 40th | Romania | -13,202 | 52.7% |
| 41st | Armenia | -13,046 | 9.0% |
| 42nd | Côte d'Ivoire | -12,390 | -706.5% |
| 43rd | West Bank and Gaza | -12,369 | 50.0% |
| 44th | Cuba | -11,976 | 50.0% |
| 45th | Botswana | -11,330 | 3.7% |
| 46th | Algeria | -10,798 | 61.1% |
| 47th | Nicaragua | -10,383 | 47.4% |
| 48th | Ecuador | -10,320 | -118.8% |
| 49th | Lao PDR | -10,305 | 0.0% |
| 50th | Serbia | -10,220 | 45.9% |
| 51st | Burundi | -10,189 | -171.5% |
| 52nd | Liberia | -10,107 | 48.6% |
| 53rd | Cameroon | -9,888 | 19.3% |
| 54th | Uzbekistan | -9,208 | 1.4% |
| 55th | Kazakhstan | -8,716 | -436.0% |
| 56th | Croatia | -8,552 | 35.4% |
| 57th | Paraguay | -8,226 | 49.4% |
| 58th | Puerto Rico (US) | -7,410 | -169.8% |
| 59th | Viet Nam | -6,457 | -214.8% |
| 60th | Honduras | -6,199 | 5.3% |
| 61st | Fiji | -6,008 | 49.4% |
| 62nd | Mauritius | -5,895 | -13.3% |
| 63rd | Burkina Faso | -5,661 | 77.6% |
| 64th | Bahrain | -5,048 | 84.2% |
| 65th | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | -4,663 | 48.1% |
| 66th | Congo, Republic of | -4,472 | 28.7% |
| 67th | Niger | -4,402 | 72.1% |
| 68th | Guinea | -4,365 | -34.7% |
| 69th | Eswatini | -4,242 | 49.7% |
| 70th | Ukraine | -4,167 | 39.7% |
| 71st | Tajikistan | -3,564 | 60.6% |
| 72nd | Lesotho | -3,449 | 50.0% |
| 73rd | Cabo Verde | -3,362 | 16.0% |
| 74th | Montenegro | -3,310 | 18.9% |
| 75th | Latvia | -3,147 | 7.9% |
| 76th | St. Martin (French part) | -2,853 | -6.4% |
| 77th | Georgia | -2,738 | 49.4% |
| 78th | Malawi | -2,655 | -44.5% |
| 79th | Samoa | -2,299 | 0.6% |
| 80th | Marshall Islands | -2,004 | 1.3% |
| 81st | Gambia, The | -1,949 | 53.4% |
| 82nd | Tonga | -1,807 | -1.6% |
| 83rd | Hong Kong SAR, China | -1,800 | 74.9% |
| 84th | Comoros | -1,766 | 39.4% |
| 85th | Guyana | -1,743 | 91.5% |
| 86th | Congo, Democratic Republic of | -1,633 | 98.9% |
| 87th | Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of | -1,585 | 49.6% |
| 88th | Mauritania | -1,483 | 50.9% |
| 89th | Uruguay | -1,482 | 48.9% |
| 90th | Madagascar | -1,480 | 50.3% |
| 91st | French Polynesia | -1,443 | 48.8% |
| 92nd | Guinea-Bissau | -1,394 | 0.1% |
| 93rd | New Caledonia | -1,181 | 49.4% |
| 94th | Togo | -986 | 50.3% |
| 95th | Northern Mariana Islands | -755 | 51.3% |
| 96th | Libya | -694 | 48.7% |
| 97th | Micronesia, Federated States of | -680 | 50.0% |
| 98th | American Samoa | -653 | 46.1% |
| 99th | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | -493 | 49.8% |
| 100th | Tuvalu | -355 | -3.5% |
| 101st | Greenland | -328 | -6.5% |
| 102nd | Suriname | -296 | -255.0% |
| 103rd | Ghana | -291 | 98.7% |
| 104th | Guam | -244 | 91.8% |
| 105th | Dominica | -225 | 1.3% |
| 106th | Nauru | -214 | -25.1% |
| 107th | St. Kitts and Nevis | -202 | 0.0% |
| 108th | Vanuatu | -201 | 69.2% |
| 109th | Aruba | 0 | -100.0% |
| 110th | Antigua and Barbuda | 0 | - |
| 111th | Bahamas, The | 0 | -100.0% |
| 112th | Barbados | 0 | 100.0% |
| 113th | Equatorial Guinea | 0 | -100.0% |
| 114th | Grenada | 0 | 100.0% |
| 115th | Jamaica | 0 | 100.0% |
| 116th | Cambodia | 0 | 100.0% |
| 117th | Kiribati | 0 | 100.0% |
| 118th | St. Lucia | 0 | - |
| 119th | Mongolia | 0 | -100.0% |
| 120th | Palau | 0 | 100.0% |
| 121st | São Tomé and Principe | 0 | 100.0% |
| 122nd | Virgin Islands (US) | 0 | 100.0% |
| 123rd | Belize | 64 | 110.6% |
| 124th | Isle of Man | 219 | -7.6% |
| 125th | San Marino | 247 | 32.1% |
| 126th | Liechtenstein | 269 | -0.7% |
| 127th | Bermuda | 286 | 0.0% |
| 128th | Bhutan | 287 | 0.0% |
| 129th | Argentina | 292 | -94.6% |
| 130th | Trinidad and Tobago | 427 | 102.2% |
| 131st | Brunei Darussalam | 462 | 1.3% |
| 132nd | Gibraltar | 514 | 8.2% |
| 133rd | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 519 | -1.3% |
| 134th | Faroe Islands | 548 | -18.2% |
| 135th | Andorra | 572 | -54.1% |
| 136th | Turks and Caicos Islands | 682 | -49.8% |
| 137th | Cayman Islands | 810 | -5.7% |
| 138th | Channel Islands | 858 | -4.7% |
| 139th | British Virgin Islands | 888 | 111.9% |
| 140th | Curaçao | 992 | 110.3% |
| 141st | Monaco | 999 | 604.5% |
| 142nd | Costa Rica | 1,029 | -37.7% |
| 143rd | Azerbaijan | 1,073 | 179.4% |
| 144th | Sierra Leone | 1,292 | 157.7% |
| 145th | Djibouti | 1,300 | -1.7% |
| 146th | Gabon | 1,506 | -32.6% |
| 147th | Solomon Islands | 1,556 | 178.2% |
| 148th | Seychelles | 1,726 | -2.5% |
| 149th | Benin | 1,729 | -48.6% |
| 150th | Iceland | 2,498 | -50.3% |
| 151st | Kosovo | 2,815 | 109.8% |
| 152nd | Estonia | 3,694 | -31.4% |
| 153rd | Timor-Leste | 3,793 | -3.8% |
| 154th | Poland | 3,920 | -49.1% |
| 155th | Czechia | 4,336 | -21.9% |
| 156th | Slovak Republic | 4,350 | 39.1% |
| 157th | Panama | 5,473 | -48.5% |
| 158th | Egypt, Arab Republic of | 6,016 | -14.7% |
| 159th | Greece | 6,353 | -82.7% |
| 160th | Jordan | 6,745 | 129.1% |
| 161st | Malta | 6,904 | -66.0% |
| 162nd | Luxembourg | 6,967 | -33.7% |
| 163rd | Angola | 7,556 | -87.2% |
| 164th | Zambia | 8,156 | -55.6% |
| 165th | Macao SAR, China | 8,842 | -1.4% |
| 166th | Hungary | 9,147 | -73.4% |
| 167th | Maldives | 9,642 | -0.1% |
| 168th | Cyprus | 9,653 | -3.3% |
| 169th | Papua New Guinea | 10,703 | -53.4% |
| 170th | Denmark | 10,851 | 14.4% |
| 171st | Norway | 11,277 | -56.1% |
| 172nd | Ireland | 15,746 | -46.9% |
| 173rd | Israel | 16,573 | 2.7% |
| 174th | Finland | 17,504 | 11.7% |
| 175th | Lithuania | 19,884 | 86.4% |
| 176th | Turkmenistan | 19,913 | 0.9% |
| 177th | Chile | 26,042 | -85.6% |
| 178th | Namibia | 27,056 | 37.5% |
| 179th | Slovenia | 28,514 | 74.4% |
| 180th | Iraq | 29,858 | 168.0% |
| 181st | Bulgaria | 30,167 | 1,499.2% |
| 182nd | Thailand | 32,277 | 518.2% |
| 183rd | Senegal | 33,848 | -11.8% |
| 184th | Chad | 36,605 | 224.3% |
| 185th | Sweden | 37,302 | -48.6% |
| 186th | Türkiye | 37,934 | 341.8% |
| 187th | Austria | 39,601 | -3.6% |
| 188th | Japan | 42,001 | -86.8% |
| 189th | New Zealand | 42,124 | -39.6% |
| 190th | Uganda | 43,464 | -59.5% |
| 191st | Belgium | 43,777 | -25.1% |
| 192nd | Australia | 44,447 | -78.5% |
| 193rd | Portugal | 54,076 | -14.2% |
| 194th | Kyrgyz Republic | 54,704 | 15.6% |
| 195th | Peru | 55,375 | -25.4% |
| 196th | Switzerland | 55,523 | 24.7% |
| 197th | South Sudan | 62,935 | -3.5% |
| 198th | Netherlands | 67,598 | -38.0% |
| 199th | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 77,259 | 45.4% |
| 200th | Italy | 85,281 | 82.9% |
| 201st | United Arab Emirates | 92,541 | 173.9% |
| 202nd | Malaysia | 101,907 | -49.9% |
| 203rd | Korea | 112,631 | -12.4% |
| 204th | Afghanistan | 143,634 | 1,468.2% |
| 205th | United Kingdom | 144,221 | -38.0% |
| 206th | France | 145,593 | 102.3% |
| 207th | Nepal | 162,139 | -11.0% |
| 208th | Germany | 203,468 | -36.2% |
| 209th | Colombia | 227,130 | -42.8% |
| 210th | Spain | 236,854 | -49.0% |
| 211th | Canada | 256,592 | -33.8% |
| 212th | Syrian Arab Republic | 269,050 | -46.3% |
| 213th | United States | 329,769 | -81.4% |
| 214th | Russian Federation | 334,094 | -0.7% |
| 215th | South Africa | 369,901 | 11.7% |
| 216th | European Union | 1.1M | -24.6% |
FAQ
What was Papua New Guinea's net migration in 2020?▾
Papua New Guinea's net migration in 2020 was 10,703. This ranked 169th globally.
How did Papua New Guinea's net migration change in 2020?▾
Papua New Guinea's net migration decreased by 53.4% in 2020 compared to 2019.
Which country had the highest net migration in 2020?▾
European Union had the highest net migration in 2020 at 1.1M.
What is the net migration of Papua New Guinea in 2020?▾
The net migration of Papua New Guinea in 2020 was 10,703. This ranked 169th globally.
How does 2020 compare to 2019 for Papua New Guinea's net migration?▾
Papua New Guinea's net migration went from 22,978 in 2019 to 10,703 in 2020, a 53.4% decrease.
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