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General

About IOM data

Through a large footprint of offices worldwide, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) collects and reports...

Data Bulletin: Informing a Global Compact for Migration (GCM)

About the Data Bulletin Series "Data Bulletin: Informing a Global Compact for Migration", launched by IOM’s Global...

About: Improving migration data

The resources gathered here support efforts to improve the quality, reliability, availability and comparability of...

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In celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the IOM Global Migration Data Analysis Centre hosted...

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Data

Assisted Returns (host country)

Number of migrants assisted to return voluntarily in [year], by host/transit country

Assisted Returns (country of origin)

Number of migrants assisted to return voluntarily in [year], by country of origin

Return policy

Has the government adopted any policies or programmes to encourage the return of its citizens living abroad in

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Return migration

There are two main forms of return migration: voluntary return and forced return. Data on forced return are usually collected by national and international statistical offices, border protectio...
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Migration data relevant for the COVID-19 pandemic

Migrants – particularly in lower paid jobs and in irregular situations – may be both more affected by and vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19, but migrants also play an important role in the response to COVID-19 ...
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IOM data overview

Through a large footprint of offices worldwide, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) collects and reports on original data from a number of sources in its own programmes and operations. Som...
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Forced migration or displacement

In studying forced or involuntary migration — sometimes referred to as forced or involuntary displacement — a distinction is often made between conflict-induced and disaster-induced displacement. Displacement...
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Pakistan – Survey on Drivers of Migration: Migrants in Europe During COVID-19 (September-November 2020)

With the increasing importance of Europe as a destination country for Pakistani nationals, the objective of the Survey on Drivers of Migration: Migrants in Europe During COVID-19 (SDM 2) is to present a snapshot o...
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PRIMI: Regional Platform for Migration Information

This platform provides official migration data from the countries of Central America and the Caribbean. Funded by the IOM Development Fund, it makes data on migration generated by the governments of the region and...
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Stocktaking of Global Forced Displacement Data

Sarzin reviews the availability, credibility, and methodologies behind common sources of displacement data, in doing so helping researchers and policymakers review their approaches to understanding an often diffic...
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Are population censuses in Asia and the Pacific evolving?

The population census is among the most complex and massive exercises a nation undertakes, requiring comprehensive planning, immense resourcing, attentive implementation, and systematic collaboration on a national...
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Blog

Using Facebook data to trace relocations from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

It is impossible to provide timely estimates of human migration flows after natural disasters by using only traditional data. Facebook offers new opportunities as a complementary source of information. An internat...
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Household surveys: A key potential source of data on migration

For most countries in the world, the most common existing data sources to collect data on international migration are population censuses and other traditional sources such as administrative records.  Dr. Ric...
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5 Key Global Trends on COVID-19 and Migration

More than a year after the emergence of COVID-19, we look at five ways the pandemic has affected migrants around the world. 
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Afghan women, migration, and their future

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Returning home? Identifying key factors weighing on Syrian refugees choosing (not) to return to Syria with using machine learning

Using machine learning techniques to identify key factors in refugees’ decision process of voluntarily returning to Syria
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The impact of Hurricane Maria: Combining survey-based estimates and big data to produce migration estimates

After Hurricane Maria, the US Census Bureau estimated internal migration movements by using airline passenger traffic data along traditional survey data
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Predicting human displacement post-disaster through an open software package with historical data

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Migration in West and North Africa: Data sources

Philippe Fargues discusses migration data sources in West and North Africa.
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Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) and Assisted Voluntary Humanitarian Return in 2021

Source: IOM 2022  Note: Unless specified otherwise, the data presented in the following graphs include two types of assisted returns: assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) and voluntary humani...
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Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration and Assisted Voluntary Humanitarian Returns

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Afghan Refugees and Undocumented Afghans

  By the end of 2021, a total of 2.7 million refugees globally were from Afghanistan (UNHCR, 2022). Most of them were hosted in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan.&nbsp...
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Returned IDPs (Source: DTM Emergency Event Tracking (EET) Afghanistan)

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Migration Governance Profiles

Migration Governance Profile: The People’s Republic of Bangladesh

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh’s (hereafter referred to as Bangladesh) migration governance structures and areas with potential for further d...
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Migration Governance Profile: Republic of Guinea

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Guinea (hereafter referred to as Guinea) migration governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as eval...
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Migration Governance Profile: Republic of Iraq

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Iraq’s (hereafter referred to as Iraq) migration governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as evalua...
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Migration Governance Indicators: Sri Lanka Second Profile (2021)

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Sri Lanka governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as evaluated through the six domains of the Migration Govern...
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Migration data in Western Asia

Mobility in Western Asia1 has deep historical roots, and it has also witnessed a lot of voluntary and forced migratory movements in the past century. The economic and political diversity in the sub-region have led...
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Migration data in Central America

The region of Central America1 (including Mexico) can be characterized by the following migration dynamics: (1) outmigration from countries in the region to Northern America, in large part to the United States; (2...
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Migration data in Southern Asia

The densely populated sub-region of Southern Asia, encompassing 1.94 billion people (UN DESA, 2020) in nine countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, ...
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Migration data in Europe

A wide range of migration data is collected and disseminated in Europe at national and, sometimes, subnational level. Institutional and legal frameworks have been developed by the European Union (EU) with the aim ...
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MAM

Do awareness-raising campaigns on the risks of irregular migration support safer migration decisions? IOM research provides new evidence.

Forthcoming impact evaluation studies provide evidence on the potential effects of awareness-raising campaigns to enhance safer decision-making of potential migrants. Migrants as Messengers community gather...
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Use of new data sources for measuring international migration

Use of new data sources for measuring international migration

Migration and other forms of cross-border mobility are issues of high policy importance. Demands for statistics in these areas have further increased in light of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the...
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5-Years of the Migration Data Portal

Time flies! We are celebrating five years of the Global Migration Data Portal. With migration data being scattered between various institutions and countries, the Portal was set up on 15 Decemb...
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IOM Global Data Institute Thematic Brief #1: Evidence Summary on Climate Change and the Future of Human Mobility

In the past decade, an estimated 21.6 million people annually were internally displaced by climate-related hazards worldwide (IDMC, 2022). Climate change is increasing these hazards across many parts of the world....
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Four reasons why we need gender mainstreaming in migration data

Migration data disaggregation by sex is necessary but also not sufficient in understanding the lived experiences of migrants with diverse genders. Gender identities as the usual conflation of sex and gender narrow...
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Afghan women, migration, and their future

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Unaccompanied migrant children

Unaccompanied or separated children face increased health risks during migration

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Disability-inclusive data in migration: How far have we come?

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Visible in advocacy but missing in data: Migrants and persons with disabilities

Like any average 20-something year old, Nujeen Mustafa regularly tweets and Instagrams. But unlike most of her peers, she’s co-authored a book with an internationally acclaimed journalist, received a prestigious a...
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How Covid-19 has made life more dangerous for migrant workers

Migrant workers often live and work in unsafe conditions. The health crisis has made their working lives even more dangerous.  
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