Migration: facts and figures
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- 214 million – estimated number of international migrants worldwide.
- The total number of international migrants has increased over the last ten years from an estimated 150 million in 2000 to 214 million persons today.
- 3.1% – percentage of the world’s population who are migrants.
- In other words, one of out of every 33 persons in the world today is a migrant (whereas in 2000 one out of every 35 persons was a migrant).
- The percentage of migrants has remained relatively stable as a share of the t...
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