After Brexit, an uncertain fate for UK’s nearly 3 million EU-born migrants
Roughly 20 million people who were born in a country now a part of the European Union have moved from their birth country and now live in another EU nation.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Roughly 20 million people who were born in a country now a part of the European Union have moved from their birth country and now live in another EU nation.
Some 244 million people worldwide have left their countries of birth – many seeking improved economic opportunities or fleeing physical danger – but the impact of out-migration has been uneven worldwide.
Millions of people around the world have migrated to the U.S. and other countries in recent years – some voluntarily, others to flee political turmoil, persecution or war.
Worldwide, an estimated $582 billion was sent by migrants to relatives in their home countries in 2015, a 2% decline from 2014.
The UK has the fifth-largest immigrant population in the world, at 8.5 million.
In 2015, there were a record 96,000 unaccompanied child migrants seeking asylum in Europe.
But the U.S. and Europe are quite different when it comes to their migrant populations’ origin countries.
The number of UN peacekeeping forces around the world has peaked in recent months after falling off in the late 1990s, following a period of trial and error for UN interventions.
Today’s volume of immigrants is in some ways a return to America’s past.
This region in Eastern Europe has been predominately female since at least WWII.
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