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Global population movements from 1990 to 2023
https://www.socsc.hku.hk/rhps/global-migration/ https://www.socsc.hku.hk/rhps/global-migration/
- anonli 4mo ago[flagged]
- mettamage 4mo agoAs the article points out. The researcher’s site has an exploratory tool to view the data [1]. [1] https://www.socsc.hku.hk/rhps/global-migration/ https://www.socsc.hku.hk/rhps/global-migration/
- gadders 4mo agoIf you pick 2023/2024 and the UK, you can see the disaster that is the Boris Wave.
- 3stacks 4mo agoThoughts and prayers friend.
- jtbayly 4mo agoThat tool could be interesting if there was a way to stop the rendered globe from spinning. As is, it is unusable
- sss111 4mo agoif you click and hold on a country, it stops spinning :)
- photochemsyn 4mo agoSelect the more options pulldown menu, click on projection, select ‘natural Earth’, no spinning.
- 3stacks 4mo agoand it accurately displays the Earth (flat) globecels btfo
- dang 4mo agoThanks! We'll put that link in the toptext as well.
- curiousObject 4mo agoPeople who believe they are financially secure may move from regions which are considered “wealthy” to regions which are seen to be “poorer” (and cheaper). This outflow can influence this data. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/american-expats-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/american-...
- swiftcoder 4mo ago> This outflow can influence this data Influence how? Migrations from wealthy to poor regions are still migrations, no?
- AnimalMuppet 4mo agoThey are... but the interpretation is different. They aren't looking for opportunity, at least not in the normal sense. And they aren't fleeing oppression in the normal sense either.
- firesteelrain 4mo agoCan someone explain the graphic?
- blondie9x 4mo agoThe graphic seems vague and not particularly revealing.
- firesteelrain 4mo agoI was trying to figure out the inflow and outflow. It looks bidirectional.
- FrustratedMonky 4mo agoLeft to Right. Leaving, Arriving.
- firesteelrain 4mo agoIn that case the observation is that North America is getting a more diverse set of immigrants
- FrustratedMonky 4mo agoIs that not happening? I think up till 2026, it was diverse. The diagram doesn't seem incorrect.
- firesteelrain 4mo agoI don’t think I was saying the diagram was incorrect
- rawgabbit 4mo agoEurope and Central Asia added people. So did North America. Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan was flat. Other regions lost people.
- Supernaut 4mo agoFurther down the page, there's a link to an article from a couple of years ago, titled "Migration isn’t increasing". So which is it?
- swiftcoder 4mo agoThere's a quote from one of the study authors: "Because previous estimation methods relied on coarse five-year snapshots, they yielded very few data points and created the impression that the rate of global migration flows was stable," adds co-author Guy Abel, a research scholar in the Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program and professor at the University of Hong Kong. "Our annual data provides a clearer picture, revealing that this rate has actually risen since 2000. This upward trend appears to be driven by long-term demographic shifts and economic development rather than sudden, isolated crises." So if I'm following correctly, when you look at coarse data, you miss a lot of the smaller-scale migration, and that small-scale migration pushes the totals up a lot?
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoTheir dataset is so pathetically small you can't infer anything from it. There are still people alive from the India/Pakistan migration in 48 and that would be number one on this list
- swiftcoder 4mo agoFascinating to see that MENA is a net positive on migration. There's often a lot of rhetoric around MENA migration to Europe and North America, but you hear much less about migration to MENA countries.
- Cthulhu_ 4mo agoI think people underestimate how many people move back to their home country once they have a better chance (through e.g. education or money) and / or when the situation there improves (e.g. stability). It's why I don't understand why the anti-immigration parties don't do more internationally to help other countries.
- expedition32 4mo ago[flagged]
- AnimalMuppet 4mo agoLess cynically, perhaps we correctly realize that some countries are beyond our saving by us throwing money at them.
- jimkleiber 4mo agoWhy "correctly"? Who says that a country or a group of humans or even an individual human is beyond saving?
- graphime 4mo ago> Who says that a country or a group of humans or even an individual human is beyond saving? The one doing the saving. Surely the one needing help should not be the to decide. They will always say “I’m worth saving”.
- jimkleiber 4mo ago[dead]
- nobrains 4mo agoWhy has , recently, Pakistan been seen added more and more to a new category "MENAP" and separate from South Asia (i.e. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh) ? These classifications should be geographic and could even racial, but it seems this new classification (MENAP) seems more "religious"
- kdheiwns 4mo agoIn America at least, all the hot deserty places between Europe and India=Middle East. I only started hearing the term "South Asia" to refer to places like Pakistan after encountering more non-Americans online. Afghanistan is also considered as part of the Middle East to basically every average American (hence why it's lumped in with all those "Middle Eastern wars"), but I'm not sure if it's seen that way in other areas.
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- ricardobeat 4mo agoPakistan being “south asia” makes about as much sense as Turkey and Saudi Arabia being labeled “west asia”. Technically correct, odd choice for modern communication.
- OhioMan2943 4mo agoPedantic response that makes light of a real issue. In case you haven't noticed, not every "western" country is actually in the western hemisphere.
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoBangladesh is Muslim though
- t-3 4mo agoProbably because they have been getting closer to those countries, especially since India has started getting closer to Israel.
- nomilk 4mo agoOnly 1.7m people left North America in 2023 (4.4m arrivals). Would be interesting to compare to figures from 2025.
- gcanyon 4mo ago> interesting You have a funny way of spelling "sad" my friend.
- arrowsmith 4mo agoUS had net negative migration in 2025 for the first time in decades: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/14/immigration-numbers-net-migration-negative-study-trump/88175499007/ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/14/immigra...
- nemo44x 4mo ago[flagged]
- cadamsdotcom 4mo agoYou’re assuming everything else can’t grow to absorb the demand. In general it does - new housing, job creation, all of it. What you’re really seeing is when something - often policy - gets in the way and a place ends up underbuilt. It’s still a problem but it’s one with different solutions.
- nemo44x 4mo agoIt can but it takes a very long time to bring food online. To develop real estate. Especially when the real numbers of immigrants is much higher. It takes time to train more doctors, to raise more cattle, and to build more homes. Way more than the rate of immigration over the last 30 years. It makes rich families richer though. But it hasn’t been good for working people and the community culture the country once had.
- t-3 4mo ago
- ricardobeat 4mo agoInteresting how South America, with several countries made up majorly of immigrants, receives almost no new migrants now. Meanwhile the middle-east population is fleeing and being replaced with asians?
- Cthulhu_ 4mo ago"fleeing" and "replaced" are loaded terms, I don't think you can derive that from this data. That said, there's a lot of workers being imported from Asia to the middle-east for their ambitious construction projects, could that explain it?
- bcjdjsndon 4mo ago> Meanwhile the middle-east population is fleeing and being replaced with asians? Persians brought Hinduism to India, so maybe they're returning the favour
- rnoises 4mo agoEh? Persians gave the name "Hindus" to the people living in that area. But they had their own religion, Zoroastrianism. They didn't bring Hinduism because they didn't have Hinduism.
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoIndians called it hinduism, but it came from iran.
- OutOfHere 4mo agoIt was then the shared pre-Zorastrian Indo-Aryan Vedic religion.
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoThey're not sure on the name of it though it was likely they had a theme song that sounded familiar to Hanson's mmmbop
- somelamer567 4mo ago[flagged]
- 3stacks 4mo agoI hope you aren't suggesting Russia is uniquely to blame in this when the United States has displaced tens of millions of people in the last 20 years
- somelamer567 4mo ago> Whataboutery (also known as whataboutism) is a debating tactic used to evade accountability. Instead of directly addressing a criticism, the accused responds with a counter-accusation or brings up a different, usually unrelated issue (often starting with "What about...?") to distract from the original argument. I do see this a lot from pro-Russian trolls arguing in bad faith -- and using dirty rhetorical tricks to do so. Please don't stoop to their level.
- sosomoxie 4mo agoYou posted a highly inflammatory claim without evidence. We have plenty of documentation of the US displacing people. Happy to read about Russia doing the same if you post it.
- gaiagraphia 4mo agoHere's the actual graph/data in question. The article is a dense academic snooooooozefest: https://www.socsc.hku.hk/rhps/global-migration/ https://www.socsc.hku.hk/rhps/global-migration/ Ffs, trying to click on a country and the globe keeps rotating, hahah. When i click on nations, it doesn't tell me the numbers either, there's just these blobby lines :/ Not very usable.
- Milpotel 4mo agoOptions -> change projection helps a little bit.
- gaiagraphia 4mo agoThank you :)
- bcjdjsndon 4mo ago*data doesn't go back beyond 2000, safe to ignore
- pjc50 4mo ago??? Data quality issues usually get worse the further back you go.
- WillAdams 4mo agoYes, but there are (in)famous examples such as the partition of Bengal (the tiger which Britain feared) being divided into Pakistan and India, which when included would provide a useful metric for the scale of human suffering involved.
- nomorehere 4mo agoThat’s true, but very few countries in the world are willing to accept people as readily as they used to. Migration has become much more difficult since 2022, and I can say that as a migrant myself.
- shomp 4mo agoWhere are the maps?