Report on Labour Migration Statistics in Africa. Third edition (2019)
The third edition of the Report on Labour Migration Statistics in Africa was generated to give impetus on the implementation of the Agenda 2063 of the African Union, the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, and the Strategy for the Harmonization of Statistics in Africa 2017–2026.
The overarching goal of this Report is to outline the labour migration trajectory in Africa and to facilitate the design of informed policies and programmes for the effective protection of labour migrants and their families leading to the promotion of sustainable development in both countries of origin and destination. Under the AU–ILO–IOM–UNECA Joint Programme on Labour Migration Governance for Development and Integration in Africa (better known as the Joint Labour Migration Programme, or JLMP), the AUC and its JLMP partners the International Organization for Migration (IOM), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), supported by Statistics Sweden, produced this edition of the Report on Labour Migration Statistics in Africa. In particular, the data collected for this edition have been used to develop further the Africa-wide labour migration database hosted by the AUC, which contains timeseries data spanning 12 years (2008–19). This relational database is the main source of the labour migration statistics available from the AUC website.
Compared with previous editions, this edition of the Report provides policymakers with more detailed information at the national, regional and continental level on various aspects of labour migration, including the governance of migration, and how to promote synergies between migration and sustainable development.