Total number of people living in a country other than the one in which they were born (international migrant stock), worldwide, at mid-year. This is the primary stock measure of global migration and includes refugees.
How to read it
Compared against a norm that itself moves over time.
Measured value over time. The line runs green while the indicator is better than its dashed norm and red when it’s worse.
Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.
Ageing-driven labour shortages create a structural pull that, via labour-immigration reforms, raises the international migrant stock over time.
Restrictive border and asylum policies dampen irregular and asylum flows, exerting downward pressure on migrant-stock growth (partly offsetting the ageing-driven pull).
Total number of people living in a country other than the one in which they were born (international migrant stock), worldwide, at mid-year. This is the primary stock measure of global migration and includes refugees.
This indicator’s slice of Factrail’s verified causal web — the people, facts, drivers and welfare indicators it connects to. Select any node to trace a path.
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