Recent trends in international migration

International migration is receiving greater attention. This chapter provides a short overview of migration over the last 200 years to provide some context. It then describes the trends between 1995 and 2015 using data from the UNDESA released in 2016 and the new three-way classification of countries developed in this report. It highlights the main countries of origin and destination as well as the main migration corridors. It shows the impact of the 2008/09 economic crisis on migration flows. It highlights how country location and other specificities have a strong effect on the broad relationship between emigration rates and increasing GDP per capita in developing countries. Finally, it details the changes in the demographic and educational characteristics of migrants between 2000 and 2010, the last year for which such detailed information is available.