Mapping Worldwide Migration

Flight & Expulsion is an interactive mapped visualization of worldwide migration based on data from the annual UNHCR Refugee Report.

If y'all conduct a province on the map y'all tin flaming persuasion the let on of 'arrivals' as well as 'departures' for whatever twelvemonth from 1988 to 2008. The countries where a high proportion of citizens accept emigrated to are shown on the map inwards green. The countries where immigrants accept come upwardly from are shown on the map inwards brown.

The map is a overnice agency to visualize the migrant patterns to as well as from private countries. However I'm non merely certain most the accuracy of the data.


Castilian paper El Pais created a like interactive map to exhibit human migration patterns across the world. Un Mundo de Migrantes allows y'all to conduct private countries as well as persuasion where the largest let on of migrants emanate from as well as which countries ex-citizens accept moved to.

The map includes the selection to persuasion migration trends over time. So, for example, inwards the USA the map shows how since 1990 United Mexican States has replaced Canada every bit the let on ane province for Americans to emigrate to.

If y'all compare the same years on the 2 maps for the USA at that spot is a difference inwards numbers as well as the countries where most immigrants originate from. For both 1990 as well as 2000 Un Mundo de Migrantes shows a large let on of migrants moving from United Mexican States to the USA. While the Flight & Expulsion map doesn't exhibit whatever migrants from United Mexican States to the USA inwards those years.


MigrationsMap.net also has a map showing migrant destinations for countries across the world. The map allows y'all to conduct whatever province as well as persuasion where immigrants are originating from as well as where emigrants are moving to.

The map shows that the superlative destinations for Americans are United Mexican States as well as Canada. The information for the map comes from the Global Migrant Origin Database (date from March 2007).

The International Organization for Migration has created a like map that shows inward as well as outward migration for countries across the globe, based on 2010 World Bank data. The IOM map shows that the superlative goal for ex-pats from the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland is Australia, followed yesteryear the USA as well as Canada.