Countries in Asia by net migration

Countries in Asia by net migration, World Bank, 2025

#	Country	Per 1,000 people	Region
1	Oman	+20.7	Western Asia
2	Syria	+16.5	Western Asia
3	United Arab Emirates	+13.8	Western Asia
4	Qatar	+12.2	Western Asia
5	Bahrain	+11.3	Western Asia
6	Kuwait	+8.8	Western Asia
7	Cyprus	+5.7	Western Asia
8	Malaysia	+4.6	South-Eastern Asia
9	Saudi Arabia	+3.2	Western Asia
10	Singapore	+2.8	South-Eastern Asia
11	Turkmenistan	+1.7	Central Asia
=12	Iran	+1.3	Southern Asia
=12	South Korea	+1.3	Eastern Asia
=14	Israel	+1.1	Western Asia
=14	Japan	+1.1	Eastern Asia
16	Azerbaijan	+0.9	Western Asia
17	Bhutan	+0.6	Southern Asia
18	Thailand	+0.4	South-Eastern Asia
19	Georgia	+0.3	Western Asia
20	Kyrgyzstan	+0.2	Central Asia
=21	Brunei	0.0	South-Eastern Asia
=21	Iraq	0.0	Western Asia
=21	Mongolia	0.0	Eastern Asia
=24	Indonesia	−0.1	South-Eastern Asia
=24	North Korea	−0.1	Eastern Asia
=26	China	−0.2	Eastern Asia
=26	Uzbekistan	−0.2	Central Asia
28	India	−0.3	Southern Asia
=29	Kazakhstan	−0.4	Central Asia
=29	Yemen	−0.4	Western Asia
31	Vietnam	−0.5	South-Eastern Asia
32	Myanmar	−0.7	South-Eastern Asia
33	Philippines	−1.3	South-Eastern Asia
=34	Laos	−1.4	South-Eastern Asia
=34	Sri Lanka	−1.4	Southern Asia
=36	Afghanistan	−1.7	Southern Asia
=36	Lebanon	−1.7	Western Asia
=38	Cambodia	−1.8	South-Eastern Asia
=38	Timor-Leste	−1.8	South-Eastern Asia
40	Tajikistan	−2.0	Central Asia
41	Bangladesh	−2.3	Southern Asia
42	Turkey	−3.0	Western Asia
43	Maldives	−4.3	Southern Asia
44	Pakistan	−4.8	Southern Asia
45	Armenia	−9.4	Western Asia
46	Nepal	−12.3	Southern Asia
47	Jordan	−26.3	Western Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	Per 1,000 people	Status
Hong Kong	+2.4	Territory of China
Macao	−0.5	Territory of China
Palestine	−4.3	Status disputed

Questions

Which country in Asia has the highest net migration?

Oman has the highest net migration in Asia: +20.7 per 1,000 people (2025). Next come Syria (+16.5 per 1,000 people) and the United Arab Emirates (+13.8 per 1,000 people).

Which country in Asia has the lowest net migration?

Jordan, with −26.3 per 1,000 people (2025).

What is the typical net migration of a country in Asia?

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is −0.1 per 1,000 people: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

People who moved into the country in a year minus people who moved out, for every 1,000 inhabitants — above zero, more arrive than leave. Source: World Bank, 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.