Introduction

• Author: Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
• Pages: 77-77

MIGRATION IN NON-EU COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES / ATLAS OF MIGRATION 2020

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INTRODUCTION

1 EC,JointCommunicationtotheEuropeanParliamentandTheCouncil:TowardsacomprehensiveStrategywithAfrica,JOIN/2020/4nal(see

alsohttps://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/topics/africa-eu-partnership_en)

2 EC’sKCMDelaborationofdatafromUnitedNations,DepartmentofEconomicandSocialAairs.PopulationDivision(2019).International

MigrantStock2019(UnitedNationsdatabase,POP/DB/MIG/Stock/Rev.2019)..EU2020composition(27MemberStates)isconsidered

3 AccordingtoUNregionaldenitions,availableonlineathttps://population.un.org/wpp/DenitionOfRegions/

4 NorthandSouthAmericaandtheCaribbean

2020hasreinforcedtheneedforaglobal perspectivein

policymakingonmigrationandmobility.COVID-19islikely

todisruptmanymigrationtrendsanddynamicsaroundthe

world,butthepandemicisnottheonlychallengetoaddress.

Respondingtoirregular migrationinthe Mediterranean,

addressingprotectionandrelocationgapsfortheworld’s

displaced,ensuringremittancesowecientlyworldwide

and building labour migration pathways all require

internationalcooperation,supportedbydataandanalysis.

PolicydevelopmentsfromtheEuropeanCommissionduring

2020have placed the importanceof an international

perspectivecentre-stage.TheNewPactonMigrationand

Asylumemphasises the inextricablelinkages between

‘internal’and ‘external’dimensions ofmigrationto the

EU,forexample.ProposalsforaStrategywithAfricaalso

callfora‘balanced,coherentandcomprehensiveapproach

tomigration and mobility.’1 Similarly, the Sustainable

DevelopmentGoals, GlobalCompact forMigration and

GlobalCompact onRefugees reiteratethe vitalrole of

migrationandinternational cooperationforinternational

development.

Aglobalperspectiveonmigrationrequiresanunderstanding

notonly ofgeneral trends butalso ofthe specicities

and similarities and dierencesbetween regions and

countries.ThissectionoftheAtlasofMigrationresponds

totheneedforaninternationalperspectivebypresenting

dataproles for 171countries and territories around

theworld. Doingso enablesusers totrack trendsover

timeand observesimilarities and dierencesbetween

places.Eachprole includesdataon thescale andtype

ofmigrationtoandfrom eachcountryorterritory,some

ofthedriversofmigrationincludingdemographicchange

anddevelopmentindicators,and aninsightintosomeof

theimplicationsofmigrationforeconomiesandsocieties,

such as the scale of remittances and urbanisation.

Overthepastdecade,thenumberofinternationalmigrants

worldwidehasincreased,from221millionin2010to272

million in 2019.2Despitethe risingtotalgure,however,

mobility remains the exception rather than the norm

forthemajorityof theworld’spopulation. Attheend of

2019only3.5 ofthe world’spopulationwas residing

inacountry otherthanthat oftheir origin.International

migrantsrepresented11ofthepopulationinEU,321

inOceaniaand7inAmerica4butonly2inAfricaand

2inAsia.The world’srefugeepopulationis evenmore

unevenlydistributed,withthemajorityresidinginjustafew

countries.Attheendof2019,12millionrefugees(or46)

wereresidingin Asia,7million (or26) inAfricaand 4

million(or15)inEuropeoutsidetheEU.Bycontrast,there

were2.6millionrefugees(or10)residingintheEU-27.

Togo beyond this initial starting point, the following

pagespresentthecountryandterritoryprolesorganised

bygeographicalcontinent(asdenedinaccordancewith

Eurostatguidelines).Theyprovideavisualrepresentationof

theclosemigratorylinksbetweencountriesandterritories

withinthesamegeographicalarea,asmigrationpatterns

areoften local orregional in scope.Each continent is

assignedanindividual colourandthe prolescontained

withinareplacedinalphabeticalordertoallowthereader

easyaccess.Anadditionalproleshowsaggregateddata

fortheWorldandisincludedasapull-outsheet.‘Howto

Read’and‘TechnicalNotes’,respectivelyatthebeginning

andattheendofthesectionexplainthesinglechartsand

providenotesandreferencestotheoriginaldatasources.