Global migration, by the numbers: who migrates, where they go and why

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/iom-global-migration-report-international-migrants-2020/?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2710051_Agenda_weekly-17January2020-20200115_083452&utm_term=&emailType=Newsletter

There are an estimated 272 million international migrants around the world. And while that equals just 3.5% of the world’s population, it already surpasses some projections for 2050. Since 1970, the number of people living in a country other than where they were born has tripled.

The scale and speed of migration – defined by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the movement of persons away from their place of usual residence, either across an international border or within a state – is notoriously difficult to predict given it can go hand in hand with events such as severe instability, economic crisis or conflict.