Sri Lanka - Net Migration 1986
-26,460
+54,490 from 1985
Sri Lanka's net migration was -26,460 in 1986, increased +54,490 from -80,950 in 1985. This was the 27th highest globally.
Global Ranking - 1986▾
| Rank | Country | Value | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Mexico | -451,756 | -1.4% |
| 2nd | Afghanistan | -343,397 | -64.6% |
| 3rd | Bangladesh | -331,992 | -15.3% |
| 4th | India | -249,545 | -177.3% |
| 5th | Sudan | -245,968 | -10.6% |
| 6th | Philippines | -209,835 | -22.3% |
| 7th | Viet Nam | -164,183 | -31.4% |
| 8th | Mozambique | -121,350 | -60.4% |
| 9th | Morocco | -99,905 | -120.4% |
| 10th | Ghana | -98,099 | 8.2% |
| 11th | Brazil | -90,973 | -49.4% |
| 12th | Mali | -81,970 | -29.4% |
| 13th | China | -79,190 | -30.0% |
| 14th | Azerbaijan | -60,841 | -6.3% |
| 15th | Burundi | -55,742 | 16.3% |
| 16th | Kenya | -53,183 | -50.2% |
| 17th | Romania | -50,450 | -79.5% |
| 18th | Central African Republic | -47,332 | -1.9% |
| 19th | Nepal | -47,017 | -55.9% |
| 20th | Colombia | -42,368 | -97.9% |
| 21st | Kyrgyz Republic | -40,062 | -4.0% |
| 22nd | Peru | -33,891 | -144.0% |
| 23rd | El Salvador | -32,181 | -10.5% |
| 24th | Guatemala | -31,631 | -26.6% |
| 25th | Türkiye | -29,134 | -425.2% |
| 26th | Armenia | -27,727 | -0.1% |
| 27th | Sri Lanka | -26,460 | 67.3% |
| 28th | Papua New Guinea | -25,495 | -0.1% |
| 29th | Jamaica | -25,339 | -18.6% |
| 30th | Haiti | -25,257 | -1.5% |
| 31st | Burkina Faso | -25,051 | -50.7% |
| 32nd | Nicaragua | -24,805 | -4.0% |
| 33rd | Dominican Republic | -24,772 | -5.9% |
| 34th | Kazakhstan | -23,297 | 77.4% |
| 35th | Poland | -22,520 | 17.4% |
| 36th | Ireland | -21,139 | -30.7% |
| 37th | West Bank and Gaza | -21,071 | 33.4% |
| 38th | Guyana | -20,647 | -1.5% |
| 39th | Portugal | -20,000 | -4.3% |
| 40th | Uganda | -19,485 | 54.6% |
| 41st | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | -18,297 | -4.2% |
| 42nd | Serbia | -17,990 | -1.9% |
| 43rd | Honduras | -17,812 | -0.2% |
| 44th | Chile | -17,148 | 5.0% |
| 45th | Cuba | -17,146 | 5.0% |
| 46th | Zambia | -16,610 | 10.1% |
| 47th | Hungary | -16,339 | -2.8% |
| 48th | Georgia | -14,123 | 7.1% |
| 49th | North Macedonia | -13,589 | -0.7% |
| 50th | Spain | -13,540 | -2,198.8% |
| 51st | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -12,941 | -13.2% |
| 52nd | Senegal | -12,655 | 32.1% |
| 53rd | Ukraine | -12,369 | -323.0% |
| 54th | Puerto Rico (US) | -11,985 | -47.2% |
| 55th | Belarus | -11,499 | -1,366.7% |
| 56th | Yemen, Republic of | -11,151 | 23.9% |
| 57th | South Sudan | -10,973 | -9.9% |
| 58th | New Zealand | -10,234 | 24.0% |
| 59th | Syrian Arab Republic | -9,485 | -52.5% |
| 60th | Rwanda | -8,982 | 18.6% |
| 61st | Moldova | -8,769 | 17.5% |
| 62nd | Guinea-Bissau | -8,748 | 0.7% |
| 63rd | Trinidad and Tobago | -8,620 | -7.1% |
| 64th | Uruguay | -8,046 | 8.9% |
| 65th | Singapore | -7,858 | 74.7% |
| 66th | Lesotho | -7,501 | -713.8% |
| 67th | Myanmar | -7,351 | -221.0% |
| 68th | Hong Kong SAR, China | -6,867 | -127.9% |
| 69th | Cabo Verde | -6,314 | -2.0% |
| 70th | Italy | -6,206 | -189.8% |
| 71st | Slovak Republic | -6,143 | -1.2% |
| 72nd | Samoa | -4,637 | 5.8% |
| 73rd | Fiji | -3,943 | -171.6% |
| 74th | Suriname | -3,920 | -4.2% |
| 75th | Cameroon | -3,671 | -1.9% |
| 76th | Israel | -3,598 | 2.4% |
| 77th | Paraguay | -3,460 | 2.9% |
| 78th | Ecuador | -3,345 | -577.1% |
| 79th | Mauritania | -2,998 | 0.0% |
| 80th | Guinea | -2,900 | 58.4% |
| 81st | Montenegro | -2,747 | 8.8% |
| 82nd | Niger | -2,728 | 55.5% |
| 83rd | Tonga | -2,650 | 4.5% |
| 84th | Curaçao | -2,364 | -0.6% |
| 85th | Albania | -2,309 | -1,161.7% |
| 86th | Panama | -2,136 | 7.0% |
| 87th | Madagascar | -1,914 | 1.7% |
| 88th | Benin | -1,899 | 2.8% |
| 89th | Dominica | -1,642 | -1.5% |
| 90th | Grenada | -1,616 | -3.9% |
| 91st | Comoros | -1,502 | -12.2% |
| 92nd | Belize | -1,475 | -5.2% |
| 93rd | St. Lucia | -1,453 | 0.8% |
| 94th | Barbados | -1,377 | 7.4% |
| 95th | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | -1,279 | 3.4% |
| 96th | Virgin Islands (US) | -1,196 | -2.7% |
| 97th | Antigua and Barbuda | -1,175 | 6.8% |
| 98th | Eritrea | -1,073 | 0.0% |
| 99th | Aruba | -954 | -27.0% |
| 100th | Vanuatu | -938 | -2.4% |
| 101st | Uzbekistan | -802 | -3.8% |
| 102nd | St. Kitts and Nevis | -783 | 4.6% |
| 103rd | Czechia | -771 | 34.3% |
| 104th | São Tomé and Principe | -614 | 25.8% |
| 105th | Gibraltar | -490 | -8.6% |
| 106th | Seychelles | -487 | -6.3% |
| 107th | Lao PDR | -475 | 65.5% |
| 108th | Kosovo | -449 | 59.0% |
| 109th | Togo | -436 | -135.1% |
| 110th | Iceland | -335 | 46.7% |
| 111th | Timor-Leste | -316 | 36.2% |
| 112th | Micronesia, Federated States of | -291 | 0.0% |
| 113th | Kiribati | -273 | 34.8% |
| 114th | Solomon Islands | -269 | -79.3% |
| 115th | New Caledonia | -259 | -12.6% |
| 116th | French Polynesia | -208 | 32.5% |
| 117th | Maldives | -175 | 54.2% |
| 118th | Greenland | -115 | 26.8% |
| 119th | Tuvalu | -56 | -55.6% |
| 120th | Bermuda | -50 | -51.5% |
| 121st | Marshall Islands | -8 | -700.0% |
| 122nd | Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of | 0 | - |
| 123rd | Faroe Islands | 16 | 6.7% |
| 124th | Nauru | 21 | 162.5% |
| 125th | San Marino | 44 | -73.5% |
| 126th | Guam | 119 | -27.4% |
| 127th | Palau | 135 | -24.6% |
| 128th | Liechtenstein | 173 | -13.1% |
| 129th | Turks and Caicos Islands | 180 | -3.7% |
| 130th | American Samoa | 289 | -9.4% |
| 131st | British Virgin Islands | 312 | 5.1% |
| 132nd | Monaco | 340 | -9.1% |
| 133rd | Mongolia | 354 | 120.6% |
| 134th | Congo, Republic of | 367 | 101.6% |
| 135th | Bahamas, The | 389 | -17.1% |
| 136th | Malta | 464 | 208.4% |
| 137th | Cayman Islands | 649 | 0.5% |
| 138th | Mauritius | 852 | 38.5% |
| 139th | Gabon | 990 | 0.0% |
| 140th | Isle of Man | 996 | 627.0% |
| 141st | Bulgaria | 1,104 | 105.7% |
| 142nd | Channel Islands | 1,185 | -4.8% |
| 143rd | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 1,240 | 1.5% |
| 144th | Eswatini | 1,353 | -24.5% |
| 145th | Finland | 1,491 | -38.3% |
| 146th | Bhutan | 1,586 | -6.4% |
| 147th | Turkmenistan | 1,878 | 0.9% |
| 148th | Brunei Darussalam | 1,897 | 4.9% |
| 149th | St. Martin (French part) | 1,988 | 0.7% |
| 150th | Andorra | 2,005 | 85.8% |
| 151st | Northern Mariana Islands | 2,101 | -2.8% |
| 152nd | Luxembourg | 2,121 | 98.8% |
| 153rd | Costa Rica | 2,302 | -2.3% |
| 154th | Cyprus | 2,362 | -10.8% |
| 155th | Botswana | 2,558 | -4.7% |
| 156th | Belgium | 2,964 | 36.9% |
| 157th | Tunisia | 3,464 | 20.0% |
| 158th | Namibia | 3,953 | 89.1% |
| 159th | Tajikistan | 4,321 | 1,649.4% |
| 160th | Bahrain | 4,822 | 3.5% |
| 161st | Estonia | 5,260 | 3.2% |
| 162nd | Libya | 5,844 | -51.1% |
| 163rd | Macao SAR, China | 6,025 | 7.6% |
| 164th | Zimbabwe | 6,154 | 30.4% |
| 165th | Croatia | 6,261 | 12.8% |
| 166th | Equatorial Guinea | 6,317 | -28.3% |
| 167th | Qatar | 6,512 | -33.5% |
| 168th | Liberia | 6,534 | -12.7% |
| 169th | Austria | 6,630 | 11.6% |
| 170th | Norway | 7,616 | 13.2% |
| 171st | Sierra Leone | 7,992 | 201.5% |
| 172nd | Gambia, The | 8,934 | 6.7% |
| 173rd | Lithuania | 10,177 | 8.1% |
| 174th | Denmark | 11,463 | 15.1% |
| 175th | Latvia | 13,972 | 16.1% |
| 176th | Djibouti | 14,543 | 45.5% |
| 177th | Sweden | 15,211 | 32.7% |
| 178th | Greece | 19,064 | 18.5% |
| 179th | Switzerland | 23,242 | 61.4% |
| 180th | Tanzania | 24,101 | -72.3% |
| 181st | Kuwait | 27,187 | 5.5% |
| 182nd | Japan | 27,987 | 119.8% |
| 183rd | Nigeria | 29,682 | -51.7% |
| 184th | Netherlands | 30,380 | 11.1% |
| 185th | Jordan | 30,763 | 9.7% |
| 186th | Indonesia | 30,988 | -17.3% |
| 187th | Egypt, Arab Republic of | 31,299 | -72.2% |
| 188th | Oman | 32,289 | -4.1% |
| 189th | Slovenia | 32,700 | 860.6% |
| 190th | Lebanon | 33,549 | 3,127.9% |
| 191st | Argentina | 38,586 | -17.7% |
| 192nd | Iraq | 39,136 | 119.6% |
| 193rd | United Kingdom | 41,836 | -49.7% |
| 194th | Chad | 42,093 | 237.2% |
| 195th | Cambodia | 43,356 | 827.0% |
| 196th | Côte d'Ivoire | 48,233 | -5.2% |
| 197th | France | 51,642 | -21.9% |
| 198th | Malawi | 62,615 | -16.1% |
| 199th | Algeria | 64,381 | -15.0% |
| 200th | Angola | 64,974 | -13.1% |
| 201st | United Arab Emirates | 69,655 | 85.2% |
| 202nd | Congo, Democratic Republic of | 70,988 | -40.2% |
| 203rd | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 74,424 | 19.7% |
| 204th | Pakistan | 111,045 | 61.3% |
| 205th | Thailand | 111,820 | -21.2% |
| 206th | Australia | 113,061 | 15.0% |
| 207th | Canada | 121,928 | 74.7% |
| 208th | Malaysia | 127,081 | 5.7% |
| 209th | Saudi Arabia | 172,606 | 16.5% |
| 210th | Korea | 189,782 | 93.8% |
| 211th | Germany | 212,822 | 105.5% |
| 212th | South Africa | 234,378 | -4.3% |
| 213th | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 242,411 | 47.8% |
| 214th | European Union | 268,980 | 71.2% |
| 215th | Russian Federation | 283,553 | 1.0% |
| 216th | United States | 493,082 | -17.7% |
FAQ
What was Sri Lanka's net migration in 1986?▾
Sri Lanka's net migration in 1986 was -26,460. This ranked 27th globally.
How did Sri Lanka's net migration change in 1986?▾
Sri Lanka's net migration increased by 67.3% in 1986 compared to 1985.
Which country had the highest net migration in 1986?▾
United States had the highest net migration in 1986 at 493,082.
What is the net migration of Sri Lanka in 1986?▾
The net migration of Sri Lanka in 1986 was -26,460. This ranked 27th globally.
How does 1986 compare to 1985 for Sri Lanka's net migration?▾
Sri Lanka's net migration went from -80,950 in 1985 to -26,460 in 1986, a 67.3% increase.
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