The net migration rate of the Maldives according to cia.gov is -12.67 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2014 est.) The migration rate is very low in the Maldives compared to other countries. There wasn't much information about when, why, or where the few people who have left the Maldives have gone due to the fact that their people do not usually want to leave. The Maldivian people love their country and enjoy living there. The few that do move tend to go to countries such as India or others that are similar to their religion maybe for work opportunities or recent fear of their country having a climate change and the Maldives ending up flooded. Even with this huge threat pretty much all of the citizens do not leave the country they love.
On the contrary, the President does have to consider this threat of climate change and the end of the Maldives if it were to sadly happen. Their president Mohamed Nasheed looked at India and Sri Lanka since they have cultural similarities when deciding where to move his citizens if need be. But he has settled with Australia and has been buying land on high grounds with the money funded by revenue from tourism in a sovereign savings account. He states, “he did not want his people living in tents for years, or decades, as refugees.” This will probably be one of the only ways the Maldivian people will migrate out of the country only because they will have to.
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