The CIA World Factbook Edition 1996 People
Net migration rate In 36 editions of 36.
Net migration rate was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1996 edition carries it in 234 entries, in its People section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
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- 1990
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- 2025
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Africa
57 entriesBurundi
-12.47 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: in a number of waves since October 1993, hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled the civil strife between the Hutu and Tutsi factions in Burundi and crossed into Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zaire; the refugee flows are continuing in 1996 as the ethnic violence persists
Zaire now Democratic Republic of the Congo
-14.56 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: in 1994, more than one million refugees fled into Zaire to escape the fighting between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda and Burundi; a small number of these returned to their homes in 1995 despite fear of the ongoing violence; additionally, Zaire is host to about 100,000 Angolan, and about 100,000 Sudanese refugees
Cote d'Ivoire
2.43 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: since 1989, over 350,000 refugees have fled to Cote d'Ivoire to escape the civil war in Liberia
Eritrea
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: it is estimated that between 300,000 and 500,000 Eritrean refugees were still living in Sudan at the end of 1995; their repatriation is being facilitated by the UNHCR
Ethiopia
-1.36 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: repatriation of Ethiopians who fled to Sudan, Kenya and Somalia for refuge from war and famine in earlier years, is expected to continue in 1996; entry into Ethiopia of Sudanese and Somalis fleeing the fighting in their own countries is also continuing in 1996
Guinea
-5.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: in prior years Guinea received several hundred thousand refugees from the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, many of whom are now returning to their own countries
Liberia
-9.48 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: until the Ghanaian-led peace negotiations are successful, many Liberian refugees will be unable to return from exile
Malawi
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: the return of refugees to Mozambique is apparently complete
Mozambique
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: by the end of 1994, an estimated 1.6 million Mozambican refugees, who fled to Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa in earlier years from the civil war, had returned; an estimated 100,000 refugees remain to be repatriated from those countries
Rwanda
146.43 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: since April 1994, more than two million refugees have fled the civil strife between the Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda and crossed into Zaire, Burundi, and Tanzania; close to 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis who fled civil strife in earlier years have returned to Rwanda, and 90,000 of the Hutu refugees are going home despite the perceived danger of doing so; the ethnic violence continues and in 1996 could produce further refugee flows as well as discourage returns
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
Tanzania
-10.36 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: the total number of Rwandan and Burundian refugees in Tanzania is about 750,000
Uganda
-2.8 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: Uganda is host to refugees from a number of neighboring countries, including Zaire, Sudan, and Rwanda; probably in excess of 100,000 southern Sudanese fled to Uganda during the past year; many of the 8,000 Rwandans who took refuge in Uganda have returned home
Zimbabwe
- NA migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: there is a small but steady flow of Zimbabweans into South Africa in search of better paid employment
Arctic Region
3 entriesAsia
22 entriesCentral America and the Caribbean
31 entriesCayman Islands
33.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
note: major destination for Cubans trying to migrate to the US
Europe
44 entriesMacedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of now North Macedonia
-0.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
Middle East
17 entriesNorth America
5 entriesOceania
26 entriesMicronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
11.65 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
South America
14 entriesSoutheast Asia
15 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1996, “Net migration rate”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/net-migration-rate/1996.