Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008World Bank Publications, 2008 M02 22 - 256 pages 'The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008' attempts to present the numbers and facts behind the stories of international migration and remittances, drawing on authoritative, publicly available data. It provides a snapshot of statistics on immigration, emigration, skilled emigration, and remittance flows for 194 countries, and 13 regional and income groups. Some interesting facts from the Factbook: - Nearly 200 million people, or 3 percent of the world population, live outside their countries of birth. Current migration flows, relative to population, are weaker than those of the last decades of the nineteenth century. - The volume of South-South migration is almost as large as that of South-North migration. - International migration is dominated by voluntary migration, which is driven by economic factors. In 2005, refugees numbered only 13.5 million, or just over 7 percent of international migrants. The share of refugees in the population of low-income countries was more than five times larger than the share in high-income OECD countries. - Worldwide remittance flows are estimated to have exceeded $318 billion in 2007, of which developing countries received $240 billion. The true size, including unrecorded flows through formal and informal channels, is believed to be significantly larger. |
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2007 Inward remittance Age dependency ratio annual Atlas method Australia Bosnia and Herzegovina Canada Clemens and Pettersson Compensation of employees country IMMIGRATION country Remittances country Source destination countries Docquier and Bhargava emigrants as percentage Emigration of nurses Emigration of physicians Emigration rate Females as percentage France GDP growth avg GNI per capita HIGH INCOME Population INCOME Population millions INCOME Population thousands Italy Kazakhstan Labor force millions Labor force thousands LOW INCOME Population LOWER MIDDLE INCOME MIDDLE INCOME Population Migrants Migration EMIGRATION national poverty line nurses trained Outward remittance flows percentage of immigrants percentage of population Pettersson 2006 physicians trained Population density Population growth avg Poverty headcount ratio rate of tertiary ratio at national Refugees as percentage República Bolivariana Spain Stock of immigrants Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa LOW Surface area 1,000 tertiary educated Top 10 destination Top 10 source Top source countries transfer United Kingdom Urban population Workers
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Page 240 - ... the country of his nationality and is unable or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.
Page 20 - Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe World Population (millions) 6,273 Population growth (%) 1.2 Surface area (1,000 sq.
Page 240 - Refugees defines a refugee as "any person . . . who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country...
Page 20 - Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Page 240 - Refugees, refugees are individuals who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, are outside the country of their nationality and are unable or, owing to such fear, unwilling to avail themselves of the protection of that country.
Page 20 - Africa comprises Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'lvoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe...
Page 239 - Compensation of employees* comprises wages, salaries, and other benefits, in cash or in kind, earned by individuals - in economies other than those in which they are residents - for work performed for (and paid for by) residents of those economies Employees, in this context, include seasonal or other short-term workers (less than one year) and border workers who have centers of economic interest in their own economies.
Page xi - ... months but less than a year (12 months) except in cases where the movement to that country is for purposes of recreation, holiday, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage.
Page 239 - Labor force comprises people who meet the International Labour Organization (ILO) definition of the economically active population: all people who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period.
Page 240 - National poverty rate is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line. National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys.