Statistics

Collected statistics and noteworthy information regarding immigration and family separation.

• Over 258 million people in the world do not live in the country in which they were born. These people, called international migrants, represent approximately 3.4% of the world’s population.
  
  
• Most migrants move to more developed countries within the same world region.
  
  
• The United States has the highest number of immigrants with a one to five ratio in relation to residents.
  
  
• The United Arab Emirates holds the highest proportion of immigrants in relation to its population.
  
  
• The greatest number of migrants come from Asia.
  
  
• The leading countries with emigration are India, Mexico, and Russia.
  
  
• There are more women than men migrants in Europe, North America, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean, whereas migrants from Africa and Asia, particularly Western Asia, are mostly men.
  
  
• Climate change has been increasing displacement and armed conflict all over the world causing an uptick in migration and family separation.