Every source behind Ageing vs. the Wall: Europe and Japan Want Workers but Fear Migrants, and the claims they support.
The global international migrant stock rose from about 153.6 million in 1990 to roughly 303.4 million in 2024.
high confidence · supported
Directly read from the dossier indicator's real World Bank / UN DESA data points for 1990 and 2024.
Germany's reformed Skilled Immigration Act and Japan's Specified Skilled Worker visa are labour-immigration responses intended to offset ageing-driven shortages.
high confidence · supported
Both facts are linked in the dossier to the demographic-ageing driver as neutralising actions with high confidence; descriptions cite labour shortages as the motive.
Hungary's 2015 border fence and the UK's 2024 Rwanda legislation strengthened a broader trend of migration-policy restrictiveness.
medium confidence · partially supported
Both facts are linked to the policy-restrictiveness driver as strengthening actions; the UK link is medium confidence and the underlying facts are flagged sensitive/disputed.
The ageing and restrictiveness drivers push the migrant-stock indicator in opposite directions, with the observed outcome being continued net growth.
medium confidence · needs review
Reflects the dossier's opposing driver-indicator links (ageing +0.6, restrictiveness -0.4 on migrant stock); the net balance is a Factrail modelling interpretation, not a measured value.
The EU adopted the New Pact on Migration and Asylum on 14 May 2024, with most provisions applying from mid-2026.
high confidence · supported
Stated in the dossier fact and confirmed by the official Council press release cited there.
| Source | Publisher | Type |
|---|---|---|
| International migrant stock, total (SM.POP.TOTL) - World | World Bank (data from UN DESA Population Division) | dataset |
| International Migrant Stock 2024: Key facts and figures | United Nations DESA, Population Division | report |
| Germany: amendment of the Skilled Labour Immigration Act supports immigration |
| CEDEFOP (EU agency) |
| report |
| Support Website for the Specified Skilled Worker Program | Immigration Services Agency of Japan | official_document |
| Using Fear of the 'Other,' Orban Reshapes Migration Policy in Hungary | Migration Policy Institute | report |
| Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 | Wikipedia | other |
| The Council adopts the EU's pact on migration and asylum | Council of the European Union (Consilium) | press_release |