Economic migration
Sometimes people move to a different county or region, because they think that they are economically better off. Economic migration happens for different reasons, for example:
- People think they have a better chance of finding a job
- They get paid more
- Social security is better in the new place
- They pay less taxes
Economic Migration Media
Net migration rates per 1,000 people in 2023. On net people travel from redder countries to bluer countries.
The global population of immigrants has grown since 1990 but has remained constant at around 3% of the world's population.
In recent decades, immigration to nearly every Western country has risen sharply. The slopes of the tops of the differently-colored columns show the rate of percent increase in foreign-born people living in the respective countries.
The largest Vietnamese market in Prague, also known as "Little Hanoi". In 2009, there were about 70,000 Vietnamese in the Czech Republic.
London has become multiethnic as a result of immigration.*In London in 2008, Black British and British Asian children outnumbered white British children by about 3 to 2 in government-run schools.
The Indo-Bangladeshi barrier in 2007. India is building a separation barrier along the 4,000 kilometer border with Bangladesh to prevent illegal immigration.
UNHCR tents at a refugee camp following episodes of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa, 2008
