Quantifying Global International Migration Flows
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Monitoring Migration: Migrant “stock” data—the number of people living in a country other than the one in which they were born—are frequently used to understand contemporary trends in international migration, but the data are severely limited.Abel and Sander(p.1520) present a set of global bilateral migration flows estimated from sequential stock data in 5-year intervals. The percentage of the world population moving over 5-year periods has not shown dramatic changes between 1995 and 2010. People from individual African countries tended to move within the continent, whereas people from Europe tended to move to very diverse locations.
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Reliably estimating data on immigration and emigration flows at the country level is difficult.
“A major challenge in estimating country‐level PTRs is related to data quality and availability: while birth and death rates are widely available over time and space, reliably estimating data on immigration and emigration flows at the country level is difficult (Abel and Cohen 2019; Abel and Sander 2014).”
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- Authors
- Abel, G. J., & Sander, N.
- Affiliations
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)
- Corresponding author
- Abel, Guy J.
- Sander, Nikola
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2014-03-28
- Volume
- 343
- Issue
- 6178
- Pages
- 1520-1522
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1984133550
- Cited by
- 565
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 164.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Demography › Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
- Keywords
- international migration flows, bilateral migration, migration intensity, global migration trends, intra-African migration
- MeSH terms
- Africa, Asia, Southeastern, Asia, Western, Humans, Latin America, North America, Time Factors, Transients and Migrants, Human Migration
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