Facts & statistics

• 272 million international migrants and this accounts for 3.5% of the world's population.
• 8.9% of all migrants came from Poland and India in 2018.
• The wage differential between Laos and Thailand is 4 times.
• Vietnam is now the 3rd largest trade partner for Laos.
• Vietnam has the 5th worst brain drain.
• Poland reached joint 1st in 2018.
• The most popular destinations are Australia and the US for UK expats (2013).
• 61,000 used the Mediterranean route in 2011 alone.
• 1 million used the sea route in 2015.
• Hungary called all of this ‘Germany’s problem’.
• 120,000 were relocated to move overcrowding in Italy and Greece when the EU voted to solve this issue in Sept 2015.
• In Sweden, 47% of all migrants are Syrian in 2014.
• Merkel moved from 71% popularity to 54% after adjusting Dublin Regulation, AfD support went up.
• 42% of Germans consider migrants a threat to society.
• 1.1% of Syrians don’t speak German.
• Welfare cost €5 billion and the total refugee expenditure was €21.7 billion.
• 27% of Syrians are tertiary educated, 2000 doctors.
• ‘Rebalance age structure’ and refugees could ‘act as investment injected billions of euros into the economy’
• Polish GDP is ⅓ of UK GDP.
• GDP per capita $45k UK > $34.9k PL (however has risen in recent years, EU, remittances etc)
• Life expectancy 82.05 > 79 PL
• 50% of all EEA migrants are highly skilled, in the UK the figure is 35%.
• Average EEA migrant pays £2300 more tax than the average UK resident.
• 3x growth in asparagus since 2004.
• £95bn taken from the public purse.
• 11% of prisoners are foreign.
• -2000 net migration for A8 net migration.
• 38,000 decline in BG/RO migration.
• More than half of the peak in migration in March 2018 due to Brexit.
• EU15 fell 73,000-45,000 in March 2017.
• 62% of all EU15 migrants have a degree.
• 50% of EEA are highly skilled.
• Remittances to Poland were 1.5% of GDP in 2011, being the 11th highest remittances destination in the world
• Globalisation: The Brazilian immigrant population in the US grew nearly 50% 2010-2019.
• Chinese immigrants have grown 7 fold since 1980 in the US.
• India to the UAE is the 2nd largest bilateral corridor
• 88.4% of UAE residents were born outside the country, 2nd highest migrant population in the world.
• Return migration is now a high proportion of migrant flows within the EU.
• 6% of MX GDP spent on health, 17% in US.
• Only 12% graduate MX uni.