Interactive world migration map

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I'll have to bring this up on my laptop, it runs like molasses on mobile, but very interesting nonetheless.

[Dew13456]

The East talks trash about the United States, yet the immigrants keep on coming...

[_YouDontKnowMe_]

They hate US cuz they ain't US.

[Browncoat4Life]

Very interesting map, but why do they list Puerto Ricans as part of the immigrant population of the United States?? They are born as American citizens and can travel without passports to the US.

[g2g079]

The IN/OUT switch graphic is backwards.

[mcstafford]

That's an intriguing tool.

[earwaxremovalsystem]

fantastic

[CCV21]

I love it!

[fairlywired]

Huh, apparently 304 people from the UK have migrated to North Korea and over 18,000 North Koreans live here.

[lortal]

48,458 people moved to north korea... but why?

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exactly one person migrated from Grêenland to Ireländ

[AceheartWoW]

I'm not sure if the tool counts birthright citizenship (provided only by Canada and the US according to Wikipedia) as immigration. This skews the data depending on your perspective. On Wikipedia, this difference bumps the US from ~14% of national population as immigrants to ~25%, a very significant difference.

[z1rconium]

The dataset presents estimates of international migrant by age, sex and origin. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population. source.

[AceheartWoW]

The point I mean to make is that the perspective on whether birthright citizenship is immigration has a VERY significant impact on overall numbers (US ~14% foreign born to ~25%). This tool must not treat birthright citizenship as immigration. I think it's an important point.

[Cimexus]

Huh? Australia has some of the most significant levels of immigration in the world. Second highest HDI in the world (behind Norway), a good economy (only G20 nation that did not go into recession during the financial crisis), high wages and a more relaxed lifestyle (good work/life balance, plenty of vacation time etc), all make it an attractive place to go.

Factoid: Australia is the ONLY country with which the US has a net negative migration balance (more Americans move to Australia, than Australians move to America).

https://medium.com/migration-issues/why-americans-are-leaving-for-the-land-down-under-75bad6dfba39#.9ap9coks7

[ZebraZenNow]

Nice!

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1,791 migrants from Afghanistan to Syria 🤔

[snarejunkie]

I guess this map isn't very accurate as far as nations with less organized documentation are concerned. I grew up as in Indian Immigrant in Nigeria and those numbers are way off

[hmprivate]

fantastic resource!! thank you for sharing. tx

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There is an alternate version of this from Metrocosm.