World Vitals / Movement across borders
Track migration stocks, flows, refugees, asylum claims, and displacement indicators.
Migration pages should separate migrant stocks, flows, refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people.
The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.
Database charts
These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.
World Bank
The total stock shows how many people live outside their country of birth.
Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.
World Bank
The share avoids confusing migration growth with overall population growth.
Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.
World Bank WDI
The stock rises in people while the share shows migration relative to total population.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
Metric snapshots
Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.
Latest World Bank world population value, advanced as a live estimate using crude birth and death rates.
World Bank / 2024Estimated from the World Bank crude birth rate and world population.
World Bank / 2024Estimated from the World Bank crude death rate and world population.
World Bank / 2024Run-rate estimate from SIPRI's 2024 world military expenditure total.
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