🇳🇬Nigeria migration (2025)

Nigeria's net migration is -15.3K as of 2025 — immigrants minus emigrants in a year — a net figure that can hide large flows in both directions. That places Nigeria 165 of 217 countries with recent data. The world figure for the same period is 0. In 1960 the figure was 12.1K — down 226% since then. Net migration can be near zero while both inflows and outflows are large. Foreign-born stock is a different series (people already present). Asylum, returns, and border detections — where shown — are Western or route-level layers, not a substitute for the national net figure. Open the migration chart below for the full series, or the country profile for neighbouring indicators.

Rank 165 / 217

Key figures

net migration
-15.3K
2025
World
0
2025
Series start
12.1K
1960
Global rank
#165
of 217

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Nigeria net migration over time

Net Migration · people

Source: World Bank

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Foreign-born Population

International migrant stock — the number of people living in a country who were born in another country (the immigrant / diaspora population).

Source: World Bank

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Foreign-born Population (% of total)

International migrant stock as a share of the total population — how large the foreign-born / diaspora population is relative to the country.

Source: World Bank

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Refugees (incl. refugee-like)

End-year stock of refugees and people in refugee-like situations under UNHCR’s mandate, by country of asylum. Does not include asylum-seekers still awaiting a decision, IDPs, or UNRWA-registered Palestine refugees.

Source: UNHCR

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Asylum-seekers

End-year stock of asylum-seekers whose claims for refugee status have not yet been determined, by country of asylum (UNHCR).

Source: UNHCR

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Refugees as Share of International Migrants

UNHCR refugee stock (incl. refugee-like) divided by World Bank international migrant stock × 100, for the nearest overlapping year. Rough composition of the foreign-born / migrant stock that is forced displacement rather than labour or family migration.

Source: UNHCR

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How Nigeria compares

Latest available net migration for every country. Full migration rankings →

#CountryMigrationYear
1🇺🇦Ukraine1.7M2025
2🇺🇸United States1.2M2025
3🇸🇾Syrian Arab Republic421.7K2025
4🇬🇧United Kingdom389.9K2025
5🇨🇦Canada326.2K2025
6🇸🇩Sudan291.5K2025
7🇲🇾Malaysia166.6K2025
8🇦🇪United Arab Emirates158.6K2025
9🇿🇦South Africa146.4K2025
10🇯🇵Japan140.6K2025
11🇦🇺Australia137.1K2025
12🇨🇴Colombia129.1K2025

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birthrate.io, "Nigeria Migration (2025)". https://www.birthrate.io/migration/nigeria (accessed 9 October 2026). Underlying data: World Bank.

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