Definition: This entry includes the figure for the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons (based on midyear population). An excess of persons entering the country is referred to as net immigration (e.g., 3.56 migrants/1,000 population); an excess of persons leaving the country as net emigration (e.g., -9.26 migrants/1,000 population). The net migration rate indicates the contribution of migration to the overall level of population change. High levels of migration can cause problems such as increasing unemployment and potential ethnic strife (if people are coming in) or a reduction in the labor force, perhaps in certain key sectors (if people are leaving).
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012
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Number of immigrants at its lowest for a decade: Net migration to Britain falls by more than a third after crackdown on bogus students
Daily Mail - 5/24/2013 12:59:53 AM
The Coalition is pledged to reduce net migration, the number by which the population goes up after immigration and emigration are counted, to below 100,000 a year. Yesterday’s figures from the Office for National Statistics put net migration at 153,000 ...
Immigration Is Down By A Third, The Office For National Statistics Says
Huffington Post UK - 5/23/2013 6:19:01 PM
as stated by the independent Office for National Statistics." The figures put prime minister David Cameron and home secretary Theresa May on target to reduce net migration from non-EU countries to less than 100,000 before the next election in 2015.
GLOBAL: Labour migration cuts will hurt developing countries, says World Bank
IRIN - 5/17/2013 11:55:25 PM
Dakar, 13 May 2009 (IRIN) - Several industrialised countries ... Unemployment rates for the formal sector are 20 percent in Ghana and 85 percent in Liberia, according to the most recent World Bank figures. Lower legal migration generally means lower ...
Govt: 'Net migration at lowest level for a decade'
ITV - 5/23/2013 9:29:18 AM
Looking forward, our Immigration Bill will reduce the pull factors to this country ... offered the world's bad guys a new deal. UK net migration has fallen to 153,000 for the year to September 2012, the Office for National Statistics showed.
Net migration to Britain falls
MSN UK News - 5/14/2013 11:58:58 PM
Net migration into ... arriving in the country dropped ''significantly''. A net flow of 153,000 migrants came to the UK in the year to September 2012, down from 242,000 in the previous year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
Americans still move around more than anyone else in the world
Washington Post - 5/15/2013 3:08:04 PM
The United States is still one of the most mobile countries in the world: That comes from this new Gallup ... prevents rural workers from moving to cities. The rate of migration there is less than 5 percent in the past five years.
Net migration to Britain falls (From Times Series)
Times Series - 5/23/2013 12:42:35 PM
Net migration into ... arriving in the country dropped ''significantly''. A net flow of 153,000 migrants came to the UK in the year to September 2012, down from 242,000 in the previous year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
Migration: a threat or a development resource?
vestnikkavkaza.net - 5/21/2013 8:05:47 AM
there is no country which could say that it has found a perfect strategy of management of migration flows. There is more successful experience and there are obvious failures, but in the end we all learn how to manage migration in the modern world ...
EE - Eesti Statistika : Migration, 2012
4-traders - 5/22/2013 4:51:19 AM
The main destination countries of emigration are Finland and the United Kingdom, People immigrate to Estonia mainly from Finland and Russia. This trend has continued for the past five years. In 2012, the net migration ... also shown by statistics based ...
International migration to lead US population growth
Newstrack India - 5/16/2013 6:52:58 AM
Washington, May 16 (IANS) International migration is projected to surpass ... when the census began collecting information about residents' country of birth. "Our nation has had higher immigration rates in the past, particularly during the great waves ...
Research Reveals New Positive Insight into Girls’ Migration
San Francisco Gate - 5/15/2013 6:54:09 AM
Migration for majority of girls leads to greater autonomy and prosperity; Strong safety nets needed WASHINGTON, DC (PRWEB) May 14, 2013 The Population Council today released Girls on the Move: Adolescent Girls & Migration in the Developing World, examining ...
International Migration is Projected to Become Primary Driver of U.S. Population Growth for First Time in Nearly Two Centuries
Yahoo! News - 5/15/2013 2:17:58 PM
This scenario would mark the first time that natural increase was not the leading cause of population increase since at least 1850, when the census began collecting information about residents' country ... of net international migration they ...
SOUTHERN AFRICA: The effect of migration on HIV rates
IRIN - 5/20/2013 11:59:01 PM
The country is in the throes of a recession that has already lasted for seven years, shortages of basic commodities, fuel and electricity are commonplace, the official inflation rate has topped 7,000 percent - the highest in the world - and unemployment is ...
Israel has highest poverty rate in developed world: OECD
PanARMENIAN Network - 5/15/2013 10:14:35 AM
PanARMENIAN.Net - Israel has the highest rate of poverty of all developed countries, according to a report released by the 33-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Wednesday, May 15. The OECD found that Israel's poverty ...
