immigrants

International Migration Report 2019

Increase in global number of international migrants continues to outpace growth of the world’s population The number of international migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million in 2019, an increase of 51 million since 2010. Currently, international migrants comprise 3.5 per cent of the global population, compared to 2.8 per cent in the year 2000, according to new estimates released by the United Nations today. The International Migrant Stock 2019, a dataset released by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) today, provides the latest estimates of the number of international migrants by age, sex and origin for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official national statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population obtained from population censuses, population registers or nationally representative surveys.

Chinese Immigrants Issue 2016

The Wall Street Journal – According to Eric Jensen and some other researchers of the U.S. Census Bureau, China has become its biggest immigrant source. In the year of 2013, around 147 thousand Chinese immigrated into the U.S. China Wealth Report (2013) indicated that over 60% of the wealthy Chinese were considering to or had already emigrated through investments. Besides, China and Global Think Tank CCG published the International Talent Bluebook – Chinese immigrants report (2014), revealing the potential increase in emigration rate from China due to some severe environmental situations, especially air pollution.