Improving international migration data in the context of the 2030 Agenda

Report of the UN Expert Group Meeting on Improving Migration Data in the Context of the 2030 Agenda

This document asserts that the new global development framework and growing attention to migration as a worldwide problem pose important challenges to national statistics offices and the international statistics community regarding the task of satisfying the enormous demands of migration and migration-related statistics. In this context, there is an urgent need to implement existing migration statistics standards, refine new concepts related to migration, exploit traditional data sources and explore innovative means of compiling data in order to produce the information needed to monitor the SDGs.