Migration – Worldmapper

Asylum-seeker Origins 2018

tina-gotthardt — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 06:23:59 +0000

This map shows the global proportion of asylum-seeker originating there in 2018. An asylum-seeker is someone whose request for sanctuary has yet to be processed.

The colour shading indicates the major geographic regions of the world used in all Worldmapper cartograms (see reference map).

Data sources
This map uses data by UNHCR (last accessed June 2019). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

Asylum-seeker Destinations 2018

tina-gotthardt — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 05:40:23 +0000

This map shows the global proportion of asylum-seeker applying there in 2018. An asylum-seeker is someone whose request for sanctuary has yet to be processed.

The colour shading indicates the major geographic regions of the world used in all Worldmapper cartograms (see reference map).

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

Refugee Origins 2018

tina-gotthardt — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:15:48 +0000

This map shows the global proportion of refugees and internally displaced persons originating there in 2018.

The colour shading indicates the major geographic regions of the world used in all Worldmapper cartograms (see reference map).

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

Stateless Persons 2018

tina-gotthardt — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 15:25:28 +0000

Having a passport or even an officially recognised national identity is not a status that every person on this planet can take for granted. The UNHCR's populations of concern database lists 3.9 million stateless persons by their geographical distribution. These reveal some of the major geopolitical hotspots of statelessness in 2018 that are shown in this cartogram. Affected populations include “the more than one million people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state are stateless on the basis of the current citizenship law, […] many of the migrants of Burkinabé descent [in Côte d’Ivoire] who were not eligible for Ivorian nationality after the country’s independence from France in 1960,” and in Europe the ‘Non Citizens’ of Latvia which are a legacy of the former USSR. UNHCR defines stateless persons as “a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”. In simple terms, this means that a stateless person does not have a nationality of any country. Some people are born stateless, but others become stateless. Statelessness can occur for several reasons, including discrimination against particular ethnic or religious groups, or on the basis of gender; the emergence of new States and transfers of territory between existing States; and gaps in nationality laws. Whatever the cause, statelessness has serious consequences for people in almost every country and in all regions of the world. The stateless population includes 906,635 Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh and an estimated 125,000 stateless IDPs in Myanmar who are also counted in refugee and IDP populations. More information about this map can also be found in our blog: Citizens of Nowhere?

Refugee Destinations 2018

tina-gotthardt — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:15:51 +0000

This map shows the global proportion of refugees moving to that territory in 2018.

The colour shading indicates the major geographic regions of the world used in all Worldmapper cartograms (see reference map).

Data sources
This map uses data by UNHCR (last accessed March 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

Migration from United Kingdom 1990-2017

tina-gotthardt — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:47:34 +0000

Most of the migrants from United Kingdom between 1990 and 2017 went to Australia, followed by USA and Canada. From the UN Migration Report 2017: Between 1990 and 2017, the number of international migrants worldwide rose by over 105 million, or by 69 per cent. Most of this increase occurred from 2005 to 2017, when some 5.6 million migrants were added annually, compared to an average of 2.5 million from 1990 to 2005. In the period between 1990 and 2000, the international migrant stock grew at an average annual rate of change of 1.2 per cent, compared to 2.4 per cent from 2000 and 2010 and 2.3 per cent from 2010 to 2017. Between 1990 and 2017, the developed regions gained 64 million international migrants, which was 60 per cent of the 105 million added worldwide, whereas the developing regions added 41 million, or 40 per cent. While the North grew at a steady average annual rate of 2.3 per cent in the period from 1990 to 2010, this rate has since declined to 1.6 per cent in the period from 2010 to 2017. For the South, the average annual rate of change was slightly negative (-0.1 per cent) from 1990 to 2000, but has been positive since then. The number of international migrants living in the South grew at an average annual rate of 2.6 per cent from 2000 to 2010 and at 3.2 per cent from 2010 to 2017, surpassing the pace of increase in the North.

Internally Displaced Persons 2018

tina-gotthardt — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 11:58:09 +0000

While refugees are very visible in the public debate, the fate of internally displaced people is often much less talked about. According to the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, “Internally displaced people (IDPs) have not crossed a border to find safety.” Unlike refugees, they are therefore forcibly moving within their home country. The reasons for fleeing their homes are often the same as those of refugees, such as disaster, conflict and violence. This makes internally displaced people equally if not more vulnerable since they remain within the country of where the conflicts or other causes of their displacement are.

The numbers of internal displacements are not insignificant: In 2018 UNHCR estimated a total of 41.4 million internally displaced people around the world, which is more than double the number of refugees (that are crossing a country border). Internally displaced people are the largest group of the 74.8 million persons of concern, but – just like the 2.8 million stateless people – these groups of vulnerable people are much more distant in our perception. They are much more distant than the much smaller number of refugees that manages to reach the shores of Europe making politicians feel obliged to act. But as the UNHCR states, internally displaced people are among the most vulnerable in the world because they often are located in areas where humanitarian assistance is difficult to deliver. 45% of all internally displaced persons are living in only three countries: Colombia, Syria and North Korea.

Migration from Germany 1990-2017

tina-gotthardt — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:41 +0000

Most of the migrants from Germany between 1990 and 2017 went to USA, followed by Switzerland and Turkey. From the UN Migration Report 2017: Between 1990 and 2017, the number of international migrants worldwide rose by over 105 million, or by 69 per cent. Most of this increase occurred from 2005 to 2017, when some 5.6 million migrants were added annually, compared to an average of 2.5 million from 1990 to 2005. In the period between 1990 and 2000, the international migrant stock grew at an average annual rate of change of 1.2 per cent, compared to 2.4 per cent from 2000 and 2010 and 2.3 per cent from 2010 to 2017. Between 1990 and 2017, the developed regions gained 64 million international migrants, which was 60 per cent of the 105 million added worldwide, whereas the developing regions added 41 million, or 40 per cent. While the North grew at a steady average annual rate of 2.3 per cent in the period from 1990 to 2010, this rate has since declined to 1.6 per cent in the period from 2010 to 2017. For the South, the average annual rate of change was slightly negative (-0.1 per cent) from 1990 to 2000, but has been positive since then. The number of international migrants living in the South grew at an average annual rate of 2.6 per cent from 2000 to 2010 and at 3.2 per cent from 2010 to 2017, surpassing the pace of increase in the North.