Rank 21 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Missouri

Missouri gained through both migration channels, from other states and from other countries, while recording more deaths than births. Every net resident added here arrived; none were born here on balance.

Measured as counts rather than rates, the channel that moved the most people in Missouri over 2021–2024 was international migration. That is a statement about volume, not direction: a channel can be the largest by losing.

Domestic migration+43,293+6.9 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migrationmoved the most people+58,648+9.4 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−11,763−1.9 per 1,000 residentsNatural change. Not migration at all, and frequently mistaken for it.

Year by year

Counts of people. Bars share one scale across all 4 years and all three channels, so a short bar is a small number rather than a rescaled one.

Missouri, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+17,206	+3,856	68,821	75,335	−6,514
2022	+4,160	+11,763	68,942	75,622	−6,680
2023	+9,638	+19,460	68,424	68,514	−90
2024	+12,289	+23,569	67,589	66,068	+1,521

Ranked just above and below Missouri

20Vermont+9.6 / 1,000 22West Virginia+6.3 / 1,000

More on Missouri

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Vintage-year 2020 is published for a partial period and carries no companion rate, so it is excluded rather than shown alongside four full years it cannot be compared with. A work of the U.S. government: no copyright subsists (17 U.S.C. §105). Source file