The article is devoted to the analysis of existing experience in the application of agent-based approach by modeling migration processes carried out for ongoing development of complex agent-based models to simulate processes in the field of migration policy. Analysis showed that despite the advantages demonstrated by the agent-based approach compared with traditional methods of demographic research simulation reveals various difficulties in terms of simulating migration processes that nevertheless do not underestimate advantages of agent and other existing modeling approaches. Hybrid population-based agent modeling is a new emerging field of study that showed advantages by implementing this approach. The explosive population growth around the world over the past few decades has had an enormous impact on the level of natural resources, the state of the environment and the structure of society in many countries. The study of demographic and migratory trends and the dynamics of changes in the population structure plays a key role in the formation of domestic as well as global policies to achieve sustainable social and environmental development.