Talk:List of sovereign states by net migration rate

Removing One Source warning
As I added data from World Bank I think we can remove the "One Source" warning on the top of the article. Does anyone disagree? Scindix (talk) 19:03, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes I agree the tag could be removed. Would it be better if the two sources were shown in different columns of one table? That would make it easier to compare. Other lists use that format e.g. List of countries by GDP (nominal). I am not sure there is a quick way to make such an edit though. Weburbia (talk) 21:02, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

reliability of CIA Factbook data
In the case of the United Kingdom, there is a wide discrepancy between the CIA's figure (2.56 per thousand population, "2014 estimate") and the approximately 4 per thousand based on the figure reported by the UK government Office for National Statistics, of 260,000 in the year to June 2014 (up from 182,000 for the previous 12 months). Whilst the ONS report a "recent low of 154,000 in the year ending September 2012", with which the CIA's figure would roughly tally, it does not tally with the 2014 figure, and as the CIA give no source for their data so it is impossible to see how the discrepancy might have arisen. So I wonder whether it is worth including figures from other data sources and not relying wholly on the CIA's figures. Failing that, it would be interesting at least to validate the CIA's figures against more authoritative sources for a number of other countries, and potentially give the reader something of a warning if more of them are found to be awry. --Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 22:07, 30 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Indeed, these numbers seem quite off. According to Deutsche Welle (http://www.dw.com/en/two-million-germany-records-largest-influx-of-immigrants-in-2015/a-19131436), the net immigration of Germany was 1.14 million in 2015. That's roughly 14 per 1,000 people. That's a degree of magnitude higher than the article's 1.24 per 1,000 people. 142.163.156.236 (talk) 20:14, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Territories and Dependencies Are not Countries
puerto Rico and American Samoa do not belong on this list. They are not countries but territories of a country. Most of the "migration" is internal--i.e. From Puerto Rico to New York. If the article comsiders that migration, it should also list (for example) the number if people that leave Thüringen to go to Bayern. --166.171.59.20 (talk) 15:29, 4 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I think, the more we can include - the better. Also, your suggestion of separating totally foreign and "same sovereign" migrations into two lists is a good idea. --YOMAL SIDOROFF-BIARMSKII (talk) 20:52, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism
This list seems to have been heavily vandalised or incorrectly edited since 17th November 2016 with countries being switched over but not the numbers. This means many of the entries are now incorrect. It needs someone with experienced editing skills to correct it while retaining what may be genuine edits that happened more recently. Weburbia (talk) 23:19, 25 December 2016 (UTC) I have now restored ordering to what it was Weburbia (talk) 11:58, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

2017 CIA difference from earlier data
Does the CIA data measure the same thing as the earlier data? If so, there seem to be significant discrepancies. Canada has 30+ / 1000 in the earlier data and only 5 / 1000 in the VIA data. Immigration to Canada has increased, which means the later number should be higher, not 6 times smaller. Farside268 (talk) 23:14, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

2007-2012 is not a 5-year-period
2007-2012 is a 6-year-period (2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012). Because the migration data has been published in early 2012, I think, the time period has to be 2007-2011. --A11w1ss3nd (talk) 19:22, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Signs not matching between Total and per/1000 columns
Assumedly the sign of the values represents whether the net migration is INTO or OUT OF the country, and the signs for a given country should match on the two columns. However in roughly half the cases they do not, throwing all of the data into question. 78.26.44.232 (talk) 13:06, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

2023 update
UN, World Population Prospects (2024) has just been published and it contains data for 2023: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/population-and-demography?tab=table&facet=none&Metric=Net+migration+rate&Sex=Both+sexes&Age+group=Total&Projection+Scenario=None

I'd like to update the table but I don't want to do this manually, is there a better way? a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 10:35, 19 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Poke @Lady3mlnm as you mastered this for List of countries by life expectancy (thanks!) :) a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 07:57, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi @Antoine, to extract data and to create tables, I write scripts in Python/Pandas (in JupyterLab). I can pass you the code if you are ready to get into it. — Lady3mlnm (talk) 08:39, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi @Lady3mlnm, yes if you can put the code on GitHub I'll give it a try for this one, thanks! a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 08:45, 21 July 2024 (UTC)