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Data Bulletin 1: Informing a GCM - Global Migration Trends

This inaugural issue of the Data Bulletin provides a brief overview of key global migration trends, based on available...

Data Bulletin 2: More Than Numbers: The value of migration data

This issue highlights that, while migration data are gaining traction on the international development agenda, as both...

Data Bulletin 3: Measuring Migration Governance

This issue examines how the growing interest in comparative analyses of migration has led to a variety of attempts to...

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International Migrant Stocks, Mid-Year 2020

International migrant stocks

International migrant stocks are estimates of "the total number of international migrants present in a given country at a particular point in time" (UN SD, 2017: 9). United Nations (UN) data on these sto...
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Migrant recruitment costs

Most low-skilled labour migrants pay fees to obtain contracts and complete recruitment formalities. This is against international conventions and many countries’ national laws that require employers to pay all of ...

Mixed migration

Mixed migration is a relatively new term – in wider usage in the last decade – which seeks to capture the intertwined and multifaceted drivers of movement of&...
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Migration drivers

Human migration is a global phenomenon. In 2020, about 281 million international migrants and hundreds of millions of internal migrants have changed their place of residence any time in the past (UNDESA, 2021). Bu...

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Toolkit on International Migration

Provides an overview of basic definitions, concepts and sources for statistics on international migration, a summary of key messages, a quick guide to migration data and suggestions for further reading. This docum...
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International Migration Statistics: Meeting the International Recommendations

This training toolkit, developed by Ann Singleton (University of Bristol/GMDAC/IOM) for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), focuses on improving data collection in countries...
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Measuring International Skilled Migration: New Estimates Controlling for Age of Entry

The authors aim to improve 'brain drain,' or skilled emigration, data sets by taking into account whether migrants to OECD countries attained their education or training in the home or destination country by using...
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Informing Migration Policies: A Data Primer

The article offers an overview of key definitions, methods, and sources for readers new to the field of migration data and research. Also included is how different data sources might be manipulated to answer commo...

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SDGs

SDG 4: QUALITY EDUCATION

What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: All indicators are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers                based on their ...

SDG 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

What do we know? Source: Migration for Sustainable Development (M4D NET), 2023   Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators:   All indicators are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into th...

SDG 6: CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION

What do we know? Source: Migration for Sustainable Development, 2023 Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: All indicators below are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers     ...

SDG 7: AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY

What do we know? Source: Migration for Sustainable Development (M4D NET), 2023 Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: All indicators are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers   &nb...

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Data collaboratives in West Africa

What data to inform migration policies in Africa and Europe?

Public and policy attention to migration from Africa has been on the rise in Europe, particularly since 2015. This has been accompanied by greater efforts to improve migration data and evidence, with the frequentl...
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Towards the finish line: What data tells us about migrants’ needs and contributions to the SDGs

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been a beacon of hope since their adoption in 2015. They help monitor progress towards a more equitable and sustainable world by 2030. However, as we re...
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Disaggregating SDG Data by Migration Status: The Swiss experience

The Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) currently collects data disaggregated by migration status for eight SDG goals: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 16. 
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Disaggregating SDG Data by Migration Status: The South African experience

Country reporting for the SDGs in South Africa is coordinated by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) through the South Africa National Statistics System (SANSS), in consultation with other government departments, t...

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Skills Mapping Through Big Data: A case study of Armenian diaspora in the United States of America and France

Using big data to map concentrations of diaspora worldwide.
Central Region Wifi Spots

Understanding Human Mobility through Wifi Analytics

The International Organization for Migration and the Interagency Group on Mixed Migration Flows have implemented a monitoring exercise through Wifi in 29 Colombian Wifi spots where human mobility flows tend to tak...

The war in Ukraine and the potential of Facebook’s Social Connectedness Index to anticipate human displacement

Anticipating conflict-induced migration flows in the context of the war in Ukraine through innovative data from social media.
Aurora Chatbot

Aurora Chatbot: Empowering Transit Migrants with Reliable Information and Humanitarian Aid

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Videos

Cécile Riallant | Leveraging Human Mobility to Rescue the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda

Take a listen to Cécile Riallant, Head of the Migration and Sustainable Development Division at IOM, for an overview of the report Leveraging Human Mobility to Rescue the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda and its supp...
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6 Years of the Migration Data Portal

6 Years of the Migration Data Portal: Celebrate with us! Watch the anniversary remarks by Koko Warner, Director at IOM's Global Data Institute (GDI).  
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The Portal gets an upgrade: A new dashboard!

On 15 June, the Global Migration Data Portal unveiled its new dashboard featuring a series of tools to help policy makers, national statistics officers, journalists and the general public gain access to the latest...
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Migration data in times of COVID-19: Trends and policy implications in Africa

The African Union Institute for Statistics (STATAFRIC) and IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) organized a webinar on "Migration data in times of COVID-19: Trends and policy implications in Africa"...
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Migration Governance Profiles

Perfil de Gobernanza de la Migración: Distrito de La Chorrera

En esta instantánea, se ofrecen ejemplos de ámbitos bien desarrollados en las estructuras de gobernanza de la migración del Distrito de La Chorrera (en adelante, La Chorrera), así como de otros ámbitos con potenci...

Migration Governance Profile: Republic of Malawi

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Malawi  (hereafter referred to as Malawi) migration governance structures and areas with potential for further development, a...

Migration Governance Profile: Mexico City

This Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of Mexico City (Mexico) migration governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as evaluated through the six domains of the Migrati...

Perfil de Gobernanza de la Migración: Ciudad de México

En esta instantánea, se ofrecen ejemplos de ámbitos bien desarrollados en las estructuras de gobernanza de la migración de la Ciudad de México, así como de otros ámbitos con potencial para desarrollo adicional, se...

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Regional Page

Migration data in Western Africa

Western Africa1 has long been characterized by high levels of mobility, a trend that far predates the current configuration of borders established during the colonial era.  An estimated 7.6 million internatio...

Migration data in Middle Africa

The nine countries that make up Middle Africa1– Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guin...

Migration data in Western Asia

Mobility in Western Asia1 has deep historical roots, and it has also witnessed a lot of voluntary and forced migratory movements in the past century. The economic and political diversity in the sub-region have led...

Migration data in South-eastern Asia

South-eastern Asia has, since historic times, been defined by large-scale population movements. Stretching over 11 countries – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia...

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