This international day, which is celebrated this Wednesday, was proclaimed UN General Assembly in 2000 to make visible difficulties, adversity And challenges that migrants must face are influenced by factors ranging from economic prospects and geopolitics to the increased frequency of extreme weather events due to climate change.

These are some of the key figures and data immigration in the world, taken from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) 2024 report:

– A 3.6% of the world’s population lives in a country other than the one in which they were born.which is equivalent to 281 million people, of which 135 million are women and 146 million men, according to the latest final data.

– Over the past three decades, this number has increased by 84%.

– 10.1% of all migrants or 28 million – boys and girls.

– Around 8,500 migrants died or went missing in 2023 while trying to reach their destination country.

– According to the latest data, 117.1 million people are affected by forced displacement of which 35.3 million are refugees, 5.4 million are asylum seekers; 5.2 million displaced persons with specific protection needs (mostly Venezuelans); and 71.2 million people displaced within their own countries.

– Of the latter, 62.5 million people were displaced as a result conflicts and violence and 8.7 million due to natural disaster.

– There are 169 million migrant workers in the world.

-The international money transfers they added $831 billion in 2022 (last year with complete data), and the vast majority (647 billion) went to low- and middle-income countries.

– India, MexicoChina, Philippines and Egypt were (in descending order) countries receiving the largest volumes of remittancesIndia has a strong lead over the rest by being the first country to receive more than $100 billion annually.

– He The migration corridor from Mexico to the USA is the largest in the worldwith almost 11 million people, and so far followed in importance by the one that stretches from Syria to Turkey (with almost 4 million people), but the fall of the repressive regime of Bashar al-Assad makes important changes in movements very predictable. . migrants to and from Syria.

– It is estimated that approx. 40% of all migrants in the world were born in Asia half of them come from six countries (India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Philippines and Afghanistan).

– USA – main destination migration since 1970, and since then the number of its foreign-born residents has quadrupled to more than 50 million. Germany is the second largest migration destination country.

– United Arab Emirates this is a country with higher share of migrants in relation to its total population.

– There was migration one of the central and most controversial issues of election campaigns in several countries that held elections this year, especially in European countries and the United States, where politicians have repeatedly promised to take stronger action to stop illegal immigration.

EFE