Prospects - Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011

November 2010 | Press Release

This factbook provides a snapshot of migration and remittances for all countries, regions and income groups of the world, compiled from available data from various sources. Bilateral migration data used in Factbook 2011 is available here. See video of launch.

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Factbook Data Notes | Glossary

Country Groups

Top 10	Developing couintries	East Asia & Pacific
World	Low-income countries	Europe & Central Asia
High-income OECD	Middle-income countries	Latin America & Caribbean
High-income non-OECD	LDCs (UN-classification)	Middle East & North Africa
	Fragile States	South Asia
	Small States	Sub-Saharan Africa

Individual Countries

Developing Countries		High-income Countries
A-L	A-L
Afghanistan	Macedonia	Antigua & Barbuda
Albania	Madagascar	Aruba
Algeria	Malawi	Australia
American Samoa	Malaysia	Austria
Angola	Maldives	Barbados
Argentina	Mali	Bahamas, The
Armenia	Marshall Islands	Bahrain
Azerbaijan	Mauritania	Belgium
Bangladesh	Mauritius	Bermuda
Belarus	Mayotte	Brunei
Belize	Mexico	Canada
Benin	Micronesia	Cayman Islands
Bhutan	Moldova	Channel Islands
Bolivia	Mongolia	Croatia
Bosnia & Herzegovina	Montenegro	Cyprus
Botswana	Morocco	Czech Republic
Brazil	Mozambique	Denmark
Bulgaria	Myanmar	Equatorial Guinea
Burkina Faso	Namibia	Estonia
Burundi	Nepal	Faroe Islands
Cambodia	Nicaragua	Finland
Cameroon	Niger	France
Cape Verde	Nigeria	French Polynesia
Central African Rep.	Pakistan	Germany
Chad	Palau	Greece
Chile	Panama	Greenland
China	Papua New Guinea	Guam
Colombia	Paraguay	Hong Kong SAR, China
Comoros	Peru	Hungary
Congo, Dem. Rep.	Philippines	Iceland
Congo, Rep.	Romania	Ireland
Costa Rica	Russia	Isle of Man
Cote d'Ivoire	Rwanda	Israel
Cuba	Samoa	Italy
Djibouti	Sao Tome and Pricipe	Japan
Dominica	Senegal	Korea, Rep.
Dominican Rep.	Serbia	Kuwait
Ecuador	Seychelles	Latvia
Egypt	Sierra Leone	Luxembourg
El Salvador	Solomon Islands	Macao SAR, China
Eritrea	Somalia	Malta
Ethiopia	South Africa	Netherlands
Fiji	Sri Lanka	Netherlands Antilles
Gabon	St. Kitts and Nevis	New Caledonia
Gambia	St. Lucia	New Zealand
Georgia	St. Vincent and Grenadines	Northern Mariana Islands
Ghana	Sudan	Norway
Grenada	Suriname	Oman
Guatemala	Swaziland	Poland
Guinea	Syrian Arab Republic	Portugal
Guinea-Bissau	Tajikistan	Puerto Rico
Guyana	Tanzania	Qatar
Haiti	Thailand	San Marino
Honduras	Timor-Leste	Saudi Arabia
India	Togo	Singapore
Indonesia	Tonga	Slovak Republic
Iran	Trinidad and Tobago	Slovenia
Iraq	Tunisia	Spain
Jamaica	Turkey	Sweden
Jordan	Turkmenistan	Switzerland
Kazakhstan	Uganda	United Arab Emirates
Kenya	Ukraine	United Kingdom
Kiribati	Uruguay	United States
Korea, Dem. Rep.	Uzbekistan	Virgin Islands (US)
Kosovo	Vanuatu
Kyrgyz Rep.	Venezuela, RB
Lao PDR	Vietnam
Lebanon	West Bank and Gaza
Lesotho	Yemen
Liberia	Zambia
Libya	Zimbabwe
Lithuania

Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 was compiled by Dilip Ratha, Sanket Mohapatra, and Ani Silwal of the Development Prospects Group at the World Bank. They gratefully acknowledge constructive comments and advice at various stages of publication from Susan Martin of Georgetown University; Jean-Christophe Dumont and Sarah Widmaier of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Rakesh Kochhar and Mark Lopez of the Pew Hispanic Center; and Sonia Plaza, Neil Ruiz, Elina Scheja, and Hans Timmer of the World Bank.

Comments and suggestions for improving this Factbook - including new data sources - are greatly welcome and may be sent to dratha@worldbank.org.

Migration and Remittances Unit, World Bank: www.worldbank.org/prospects/migrationandremittances