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Overcoming barriers:
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Human Development Report 2009

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

HDI Rank Country 2000-2002
1 Norway 11.0
2 Australia 22.5
3 Iceland 16.4
4 Canada 21.5
5 Ireland 28.1
6 Netherlands 14.2
7 Sweden 15.0
8 France 13.1
9 Switzerland 26.0
10 Japan 1.7
11 Luxembourg 38.3
12 Finland 9.0
13 United States 12.4
14 Austria 17.2
15 Spain 8.3
16 Denmark 10.7
17 Belgium 14.6
18 Italy 8.1
19 Liechtenstein 42.0
20 New Zealand 27.3
21 United Kingdom 14.3
22 Germany 15.3
23 Singapore 19.1
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 45.6
25 Greece 17.2
26 Korea (Republic of) 3.4
27 Israel 40.3
28 Andorra 79.6
29 Slovenia 7.6
30 Brunei Darussalam 33.4
31 Kuwait 54.5
32 Cyprus 23.4
33 Qatar 60.7
34 Portugal 21.4
35 United Arab Emirates 55.1
36 Czech Republic 7.7
37 Barbados 36.6
38 Malta 24.0
39 Bahrain 47.3
40 Estonia 28.5
41 Poland 7.1
42 Slovakia 10.3
43 Hungary 6.6
44 Chile 4.5
45 Croatia 23.8
46 Lithuania 13.9
47 Antigua and Barbuda 56.1
48 Latvia 33.0
49 Argentina 5.6
50 Uruguay 9.5
51 Cuba 9.6
52 Bahamas 19.3
53 Mexico 9.5
54 Costa Rica 9.7
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 11.5
56 Oman 28.0
57 Seychelles 21.6
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 5.3
59 Saudi Arabia 24.8
60 Panama 8.2
61 Bulgaria 11.6
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis 49.3
63 Romania 5.0
64 Trinidad and Tobago 22.8
65 Montenegro .. 1
66 Malaysia 10.1
67 Serbia 18.7
68 Belarus 26.1
69 Saint Lucia 27.9
70 Albania 21.4
71 Russian Federation 15.3
72 Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Rep. of) 12.8
73 Dominica 41.6
74 Grenada 45.0
75 Brazil 0.8
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 27.0
77 Colombia 4.1
78 Peru 2.9
79 Turkey 6.0
80 Ecuador 5.9
81 Mauritius 13.1
82 Kazakhstan 35.8
83 Lebanon 27.1
84 Armenia 28.1
85 Ukraine 23.8
86 Azerbaijan 15.8
87 Thailand 2.0
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 4.7
89 Georgia 22.1
90 Dominican Republic 10.4
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 39.0
92 China 0.5
93 Belize 27.4
94 Samoa 39.4
95 Maldives 1.5
96 Jordan 45.3
97 Suriname 36.9
98 Tunisia 6.3
99 Tonga 34.7
100 Jamaica 27.0
101 Paraguay 9.8
102 Sri Lanka 6.6
103 Gabon 22.8
104 Algeria 6.9
105 Philippines 5.6
106 El Salvador 14.6
107 Syrian Arab Republic 7.4
108 Fiji 16.6
109 Turkmenistan 9.8
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories 61.3
111 Indonesia 1.0
112 Honduras 5.9
113 Bolivia 5.3
114 Guyana 33.6
115 Mongolia 0.6
116 Viet Nam 2.4
117 Moldova 24.6
118 Equatorial Guinea 14.7
119 Uzbekistan 13.4
120 Kyrgyzstan 20.6
121 Cape Verde 32.1
122 Guatemala 5.2
123 Egypt 3.1
124 Nicaragua 9.6
125 Botswana 3.8
126 Vanuatu 2.7
127 Tajikistan 16.1
128 Namibia 8.7
129 South Africa 3.9
130 Morocco 8.5
131 Sao Tome and Principe 17.9
132 Bhutan 3.8
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 6.2
134 India 1.4
135 Solomon Islands 1.7
136 Congo 20.0
137 Cambodia 3.9
138 Myanmar 0.9
139 Comoros 10.7
140 Yemen 4.3
141 Pakistan 4.8
142 Swaziland 4.8
143 Angola 5.8
144 Nepal 6.2
145 Madagascar 1.3
146 Bangladesh 5.1
147 Kenya 2.3
148 Papua New Guinea 1.3
149 Haiti 8.0
150 Sudan 3.8
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) 3.3
152 Ghana 7.3
153 Cameroon 1.9
154 Mauritania 6.3
155 Djibouti 5.8
156 Lesotho 2.8
157 Uganda 2.7
158 Nigeria 1.4
159 Togo 6.8
160 Malawi 3.4
161 Benin 8.8
162 Timor-Leste 3.2
163 Côte d'Ivoire 13.8
164 Zambia 5.6
165 Eritrea 12.8
166 Senegal 7.0
167 Rwanda 3.7
168 Gambia 16.4
169 Liberia 7.8
170 Guinea 14.3
171 Ethiopia 1.4
172 Mozambique 6.0
173 Guinea-Bissau 9.9
174 Burundi 6.5
175 Chad 3.7
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2.9
177 Burkina Faso 17.9
178 Mali 12.9
179 Central African Republic 4.2
180 Sierra Leone 3.0
181 Afghanistan 10.8
182 Niger 5.0
Other UN member states
Iraq 4.6
Kiribati 6.7
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of) 2.2
Marshall Islands 20.1
Micronesia (Federated States of) 21.0
Monaco 82.6
Nauru 50.4
Palau 58.7
San Marino 45.0
Somalia 6.7
Tuvalu 18.2
Zimbabwe 7.4

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.
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