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Overcoming barriers:
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Human Development Report 2009

AHuman movement: snapshots and trends
Emigration rate (%)Excel

HDI Rank Country 2000-2002
1 Norway 3.9
2 Australia 2.2
3 Iceland 10.6
4 Canada 4.0
5 Ireland 20.0
6 Netherlands 4.7
7 Sweden 3.3
8 France 2.9
9 Switzerland 5.6
10 Japan 0.7
11 Luxembourg 9.5
12 Finland 6.6
13 United States 0.8
14 Austria 5.5
15 Spain 3.2
16 Denmark 4.3
17 Belgium 4.4
18 Italy 5.4
19 Liechtenstein 12.6
20 New Zealand 11.8
21 United Kingdom 6.6
22 Germany 4.7
23 Singapore 6.3
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 9.5
25 Greece 7.8
26 Korea (Republic of) 3.1
27 Israel 13.1
28 Andorra 9.7
29 Slovenia 5.2
30 Brunei Darussalam 4.9
31 Kuwait 16.6
32 Cyprus 18.4
33 Qatar 2.3
34 Portugal 16.1
35 United Arab Emirates 3.3
36 Czech Republic 3.5
37 Barbados 29.8
38 Malta 22.3
39 Bahrain 15.9
40 Estonia 12.2
41 Poland 5.1
42 Slovakia 8.2
43 Hungary 3.9
44 Chile 3.3
45 Croatia 12.0
46 Lithuania 8.6
47 Antigua and Barbuda 45.3
48 Latvia 9.1
49 Argentina 1.6
50 Uruguay 7.0
51 Cuba 8.9
52 Bahamas 10.8
53 Mexico 9.0
54 Costa Rica 2.6
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 1.4
56 Oman 0.7
57 Seychelles 17.0
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1.4
59 Saudi Arabia 1.1
60 Panama 5.7
61 Bulgaria 10.5
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis 44.3
63 Romania 4.6
64 Trinidad and Tobago 20.2
65 Montenegro .. 1
66 Malaysia 3.1
67 Serbia 13.6
68 Belarus 15.2
69 Saint Lucia 24.1
70 Albania 21.0
71 Russian Federation 7.7
72 Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Rep. of) 11.3
73 Dominica 38.3
74 Grenada 40.3
75 Brazil 0.5
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 25.1
77 Colombia 3.9
78 Peru 2.7
79 Turkey 4.2
80 Ecuador 5.3
81 Mauritius 12.5
82 Kazakhstan 19.4
83 Lebanon 12.9
84 Armenia 20.3
85 Ukraine 10.9
86 Azerbaijan 14.3
87 Thailand 1.3
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1.3
89 Georgia 18.3
90 Dominican Republic 9.1
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 34.4
92 China 0.5
93 Belize 16.5
94 Samoa 37.2
95 Maldives 0.4
96 Jordan 11.6
97 Suriname 36.0
98 Tunisia 5.9
99 Tonga 33.7
100 Jamaica 26.7
101 Paraguay 6.9
102 Sri Lanka 4.7
103 Gabon 4.3
104 Algeria 6.2
105 Philippines 4.0
106 El Salvador 14.3
107 Syrian Arab Republic 2.4
108 Fiji 15.0
109 Turkmenistan 5.3
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories 23.9
111 Indonesia 0.9
112 Honduras 5.3
113 Bolivia 4.3
114 Guyana 33.5
115 Mongolia 0.3
116 Viet Nam 2.4
117 Moldova 14.3
118 Equatorial Guinea 14.5
119 Uzbekistan 8.5
120 Kyrgyzstan 10.5
121 Cape Verde 30.5
122 Guatemala 4.9
123 Egypt 2.9
124 Nicaragua 9.1
125 Botswana 0.9
126 Vanuatu 2.0
127 Tajikistan 11.4
128 Namibia 1.3
129 South Africa 1.7
130 Morocco 8.1
131 Sao Tome and Principe 13.5
132 Bhutan 2.2
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 5.9
134 India 0.8
135 Solomon Islands 1.0
136 Congo 14.7
137 Cambodia 2.3
138 Myanmar 0.7
139 Comoros 7.7
140 Yemen 3.0
141 Pakistan 2.2
142 Swaziland 1.1
143 Angola 5.5
144 Nepal 3.9
145 Madagascar 0.9
146 Bangladesh 4.5
147 Kenya 1.4
148 Papua New Guinea 0.9
149 Haiti 7.7
150 Sudan 1.7
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) 0.8
152 Ghana 4.5
153 Cameroon 1.0
154 Mauritania 4.1
155 Djibouti 2.2
156 Lesotho 2.6
157 Uganda 0.7
158 Nigeria 0.8
159 Togo 3.7
160 Malawi 1.2
161 Benin 7.5
162 Timor-Leste 2.6
163 Côte d'Ivoire 1.0
164 Zambia 2.2
165 Eritrea 12.5
166 Senegal 4.4
167 Rwanda 2.7
168 Gambia 3.6
169 Liberia 2.7
170 Guinea 6.3
171 Ethiopia 0.4
172 Mozambique 4.2
173 Guinea-Bissau 8.6
174 Burundi 5.4
175 Chad 3.2
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 1.5
177 Burkina Faso 9.8
178 Mali 12.5
179 Central African Republic 2.7
180 Sierra Leone 2.0
181 Afghanistan 10.6
182 Niger 4.0
Other UN member states
Iraq 4.1
Kiribati 4.0
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of) 2.0
Marshall Islands 17.7
Micronesia (Federated States of) 18.6
Monaco 39.3
Nauru 9.3
Palau 39.3
San Marino 18.1
Somalia 6.5
Tuvalu 15.4
Zimbabwe 2.3

Notes :
1 - Data for Montenegro are included with those for Serbia.

Sources :
calculated based on data from Migration DRC (2007). "Global Migrant Origin Database (Version 4)." Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex and population data from UN (2009e). "World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision". New York: Department of Social and Economic Affairs.
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