Key facts about recent trends in global migration
The number of international migrants grew to 281 million in 2020; 3.6% of the world’s people lived outside their country of birth that year.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The number of international migrants grew to 281 million in 2020; 3.6% of the world’s people lived outside their country of birth that year.
At least 81 voting members of Congress (15%) are foreign born or have at least one parent who was born in another country.
At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.
As a standoff escalates at the Greece-Turkey border, here’s how people in Greece see migrants, as well as how many migrants live in Greece.
The movement of people across borders has halted in much of the world as countries close their borders in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
The number of unauthorized immigrants living in Europe increased between 2014 and 2016, then leveled off to an estimated 3.9 million to 4.8 million in 2017, according to new estimates from Pew Research Center.
In this Q&A and video, learn about the methods and data sources the Center used to estimate the number of unauthorized immigrants in Europe.
Canada resettled 28,000 refugees in 2018, similar to its 2017 total. Meanwhile, the U.S. resettled 23,000, down from the previous year.
The size of Europe’s unauthorized immigrant population in 2017 was less than half the number in the United States.
Money sent by immigrants to their home countries in sub-Saharan Africa reached a record $41 billion in 2017.
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