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Frequently asked Questions (FAQs)

What are the Portal's main objectives? The Portal aims to serve the migration community by making sense of migration...

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

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...

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Data protection and migration

Migration and data protection

Data protection in the migration context has become increasingly relevant given the growing need for more reliable statistics, comprehensive and timely data, and the emergence of new technologies. The incidences o...
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Big data, migration and human mobility

The term "big data" includes anonymized data that are generated by users of mobile devices, internet-based platforms, or by digital sensors and meters, for example, satellite imagery. With about 5.16 billion uniqu...
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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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Disability and human mobility

Persons with disabilities are often among the most vulnerable and disproportionately affected groups in migration and forced displacement situations. Within the population of&nbs...
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IOM Data Protection Manual

Data protection continues to be a growing field in the context of international organizations. It is also a necessary consideration at national and regional level given the increased use of advanced technology in ...
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Migration Governance Indicators Data and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: A Baseline Report

This document analyses global, regional and thematic trends that emerge from MGI data in relation to the general commitment and the range of associated actions for each of the 23 Global Compact for Migration objec...
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Guidance on Data Integration for Measuring Migration

Guidance on Data Integration for Measuring Migration

Policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders need data on migrants – how many there are, their rates of entry and exit, their characteristics, and their integration into societies. These data need be comprehen...
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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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Migration Data and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Migration in the SDGs The SDGs’ central reference to migration is made in Target 10.7 to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the ...
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SDG 3: Good health and well-being

What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: Target 3.1 By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births Star Star Star Indicator: 3.1....
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SDG 1: END POVERTY IN ALL ITS FORMS EVERYWHERE

What do we know?   Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: Target 1.1 By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than USD ...
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SDG 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: Target 8.3 Promote development- oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity ...
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Data Responsibility

Ensuring data responsibility within the Humanitarian sector

As humanitarians collect more data to inform their operations, it is increasingly within their moral, ethical and legal obligations to ensure they put the necessary data handling safeguards in place.  Data Re...
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Migration Statistics: Let's Make Better Use of Existing Data

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Improving data on migration in Africa: Expert voices

For 17 per cent of countries in Africa, the most recent data available from censuses referred to years prior to 2005. Only four in ten countries in Africa can provide data on the age of international migrants. ...
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Five key recommendations for improving data on missing migrants

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Collecting data from conflict zones by using social media and newspaper data

With using social media and newspaper data this innovative data project gathers and analyses data from zones and regions of violent conflict
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EU Commission’s COVID-19 Data Platform: Facilitating data sharing and analysis to accelerate research to “flatten the curve”

The EU Commission’s COVID-19 Data Platform is a collaborative portal to share vast amounts of data, datasets and studies in an organised and structured way
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Estimating global migration flows by combining traditional and innovative data sources using machine learning

By using machine learning, this research project combines multiple innovative data sources such as Google search and air traffic data with traditional migration statistics to estimate global migration flows
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"You are where you e-mail": Discovering global migration trends using e-mail data

This study estimates age- and gender-specific migration rates using data extracted from a large sample of Yahoo! e-mail messages

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Addressing EU migration data challenges: What innovative data and collaboration offer

IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre and the Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre organized a webinar on "Addressing EU migration data challenges: ...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Using big data to understand migration (Part 3)

Alessandro Sorichetta, principal Research Fellow at the WorldPop Programme, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration. This interview took place during the workshop "Big Data and alternative ...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Mexico-US migration: What can data tell us?

Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, shares his views on data and migration between the US and Mexico. This interview took place during first International Forum on Mi...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Using big data to understand migration (part 2)

Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of The Governance Lab, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration. This interview took place during the workshop "Big Da...
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IOM’s Missing Migrants Project

Data on deaths of migrants compiled by IOM´s Global Migration Data Analysis Center All numbers are estimates. Arrivals based on data from respective governments and IOM field offices.
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Migrant deaths and disappearances recorded globally between 1 January 2017 - 12 November 2017

Source:  The International Organization of Migration (IOM)’s Missing Migrants Project, 2017. Data are compiled from a variety of sources including local authorities, surveys and interviews with survivors...
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IOM’s Missing Migrants Project

Data on deaths of migrants compiled by IOM´s Global Migration Data Analysis Center All numbers are estimates. Arrivals based on data from respective governments and IOM field offices.
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Total internally displaced Afghans as of December 2020 

  As of the end of 2020, an estimated total of 4.6 million Afghans were living in internal displacement. Among the stock of internally displaced persons (IDPs) globally, Afghanistan hosted the highest numb...
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Migration Governance Profiles

Migration Governance Profile: Republic of Vanuatu

This country profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Vanuatu’s (hereafter referred to as Vanuatu) migration governance structures and area...
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Migration Governance Profile: Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal

This country profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (hereafter referred to as Nepal) migration governance struct...
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Profil de gouvernance de la migration: Royaume du Maroc

Ce profil décrit les points forts et les aspects à développer des structures de gouvernance des migrations du Royaume du Maroc, sur la base des six domaines du cadre de gouvernance des migrations (MiGOF). Ceux-ci ...
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Migration Governance Profile: Republic of Albania

This country profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Albania (hereafter referred to as Albania) migration governance structures and areas with poten...
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Regional Page

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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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Migration Data in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Migration to and from countries in Southern Africa1 is driven largely by the pursuit of economic opportunities, political instability and increasingly, environmental hazards. In a region with an estimated populati...
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Migration data in Northern America

Northern America1 has historically been one of the principal destination regions of international migrants worldwide. According to statistics published by the United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social ...
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Migration data in Western Africa

Western Africa1 has long been characterized by high levels of mobility, a trend that far predates the current configuration of borders established during the colonial era.  An estimated 7.6 million internatio...
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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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Afghan women, migration, and their future
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Data show Afghans are increasingly relying on smuggling
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Immigration & emigration statistics

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Migration, environnement et changement climatique: Données à l'usage des politiques (MECLEP) - Glossaire
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