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About IOM data

Through a large footprint of offices worldwide, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) collects and reports...

Data Bulletin: Informing a Global Compact for Migration (GCM)

About the Data Bulletin Series "Data Bulletin: Informing a Global Compact for Migration", launched by IOM’s Global...

About: Improving migration data

The resources gathered here support efforts to improve the quality, reliability, availability and comparability of...

Transcript of webinar

In celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the IOM Global Migration Data Analysis Centre hosted...

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Thematic Page

Return Migration Infographic 2024

Return Migration

There are two main forms of return migration: voluntary return and forced return. Data on forced return are usually collected by national and international statistical offices, border protectio...
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IOM data overview

Through a large footprint of offices worldwide, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) collects and reports on original data from a number of sources in its own programmes and operations. Som...

Migration data relevant for the COVID-19 pandemic

Migrants – particularly in lower paid jobs and in irregular situations – may be both more affected by and vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19, but migrants also play an important role in the response to COVID-19 ...

Forced migration or displacement

In studying forced or involuntary migration a distinction is often made between conflict-induced and disaster-induced displacement. Displacement induced by conflict is typically referred to as ...

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Resource

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Women & Girls on the Move: A Snapshot of Available Evidence

Gender is a significant factor shaping every aspect of human mobility – from the decision to migrate, transiting across borders, to settling in the country of destination, or choosing to return home. Access to ser...
Migrants as Messengers Senegal

Migrants as Messengers: The Impact of Peer-to-Peer Communication on Potential Migrants in Senegal - Impact Evaluation Report

The report presents key results from a rigorous impact evaluation that assessed the impact of the Migrants as Messengers (MaM) information events in Dakar, Senegal. MaM was a peer-to-peer awareness-raising campaig...
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Stocktaking of Global Forced Displacement Data

Sarzin reviews the availability, credibility, and methodologies behind common sources of displacement data, in doing so helping researchers and policymakers review their approaches to understanding an often diffic...
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Key Figures: Mobility within and from Ukraine, 2020-2024

2-pager from the Global Data Institute (GDI) summarizing key migration and displacement figures in the context of mobility within and from Ukraine (2020-2024), updated with data available as of 20 February 2024. I...

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SDGs

SDG 14: LIFE BELOW WATER

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

SDG 9: INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE

What do we know? Source: Migration for Sustainable Development (M4D NET), 2023 Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: To facilitate the implementation of the global indicator framework, all in...

SDG 17: PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

What do we know? Source: IOM, 2024.   Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators:   Indicators below are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers       ...

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Blog

Using Facebook data to trace relocations from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

It is impossible to provide timely estimates of human migration flows after natural disasters by using only traditional data. Facebook offers new opportunities as a complementary source of information. An internat...

5 Key Global Trends on COVID-19 and Migration

More than a year after the emergence of COVID-19, we look at five ways the pandemic has affected migrants around the world. 
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Current migration dynamics from the Horn of Africa to the Arab Peninsula: 3 ways data can support action

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Household surveys: A key potential source of data on migration

For most countries in the world, the most common existing data sources to collect data on international migration are population censuses and other traditional sources such as administrative records.  Dr. Ric...

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DID Profile

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Returning home? Identifying key factors weighing on Syrian refugees choosing (not) to return to Syria with using machine learning

Using machine learning techniques to identify key factors in refugees’ decision process of voluntarily returning to Syria
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QuantMig Migration Scenarios Explorer

QuantMig provides projections for 31 European countries by age, sex, place of birth, education, and labor force participation under various migration scenarios from 2020 to 2060. The tool includes 15 high mig...
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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...
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The impact of Hurricane Maria: Combining survey-based estimates and big data to produce migration estimates

After Hurricane Maria, the US Census Bureau estimated internal migration movements by using airline passenger traffic data along traditional survey data

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Infographic

Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) and Assisted Voluntary Humanitarian Return in 2021

Source: IOM 2022  Note: Unless specified otherwise, the data presented in the following graphs include two types of assisted returns: assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) and voluntary humani...
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Afghan Refugees and Undocumented Afghans

  By the end of 2021, a total of 2.7 million refugees globally were from Afghanistan (UNHCR, 2022). Most of them were hosted in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan.&nbsp...

Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration and Assisted Voluntary Humanitarian Returns

IOM Return and Reintegration (2020)

IOM Return and Reintegration (2020)

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Migration Governance Profiles

Migration Governance Second Profile: Republic of Honduras

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Honduras (hereinafter referred to as Honduras)  governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as ev...

Migration Governance Indicators Second Profile: Republic of Iraq

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of Republic of Iraq’s governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as evaluated through the six domains of the Migration G...

Migration Governance Indicators Second Profile: Republic of El Salvador

This Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of El Salvador migration governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as evaluated through the six domains of the Migration Govern...

Migration Governance Profile: Republic of Guinea

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

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Regional Page

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 Southern Asia

The densely populated sub-region of Southern Asia, encompassing 1.94 billion people (UN DESA, 2020) in nine countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, ...
Photo: IOM / Elyor Nematov 2018.

Migration data in Central Asia

Historically known for being part of the Silk Road trade route which facilitated the movement of goods and people between Europe and Asia, Central Asia had an estimated population of 75.9 million people as of mid-...
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Migration data in Northern Africa

The six countries in Northern AfricaAs defined by the UN Statistics Division – Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia – have historically been and remain significant countries of migrant destination, tr...

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