Migration

• How many migrants were there in 2015?

  224 million
• What has increased the rate of migration?

  Globalisation and increased interconnectivity between countries
• What are the majority of migrants?

  Economic migrants.
• What is there also growing numbers of?

  Refugees

  Asylum seekers
• How is population change calculated?

  (births - deaths) +/- international migration
• What does the UN define a long-term migrant as ?

  A person who moves to his or her usual residence for a period of a least a year.
• What is net migration?

  The difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants in a country.
• What was the estimated net migration in the Uk in 2014?

  318,000
• What country had the greatest net migration loss in europe ?

  Spain with 265,000
• What were the main reasons as to why 5.1 million people in the UK lived abroad in 2013?

  Employment opportunities

  Retirement

  Family reunification