With the topic of global (im)migration getting increasingly more
prominence as we get ever closer to the presidential elections, not to
mention Europe’s ongoing plight with the biggest refugee crisis since
World War II, here is a
handful of factual, and bias-free, charts summarizing the key aspects
of global human mobility.
First, here is a summary tracker of global people flows since the start of the century. The countries in gray are sources of net people outflows, while those in blue have seen cumulative immigration over the past 15 years.