World Migration Report, 2022

About the report-

• The World Migration Report (WMR) is IOM’s flagship publication, having been produced biennially since 2000. 
• The 2022 edition is the eleventh in the world migration report series.
• It brings into focus the displacement and migration caused by climate change induced factors, like extreme disasters and weather events.
• As per the new report, more people are being displaced by disasters (increased  to 40.5 million in 2020, from 31.5 million in 2019) caused by the changing climate than conflicts, reversing a historical trend.
• Extreme temperatures have displaced some 46,000 people anew; droughts caused new displacement of 32,000 people in 2020. 
• Storms accounted for 14.6 million displacements and floods for 14.1 million.
• The report quoted the regular data collation by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• It has found that the Philippines experienced the highest absolute numbers of new disaster displacements in 2020 (approximately 5.1 million).
• Asia reported the largest displacement due to disasters. 

• China reported five million new disaster displacements by the end of 2020. 
• India reported nearly four million new displacements due to disasters.
• In 2020, India, China, Mexico, the Philippines and Egypt were (in descending order) the top five remittance recipient countries.
• When compared with the size of the population in each region, shares of international migrants in 2020 were highest in Oceania, North America and Europe, where international migrants represented, respectively, 22 per cent, 16 per cent and 12 percent of the total population. 
• In comparison, the share of international migrants is relatively small in Asia and Africa (1.8% and 1.9%, respectively) and Latin America and the Caribbean (2.3%).

• The current United Nations global estimate is that there were around 281 million international migrants in the world in 2020, which equates to 3.6 per cent of the global population.