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Global population movements from 1990 to 2023

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Re: Global population movements from 1990 to 2023

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Post by expedition32 »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #17
swiftcoder wrote: post #7

Fascinating to see that MENA is a net positive on migration. There's often a lot of rhetoric around MENA migration to Europe and North America, but you hear much less about migration to MENA countries.

I think people underestimate how many people move back to their home country once they have a better chance (through e.g. education or money) and / or when the situation there improves (e.g. stability). It's why I don't understand why the anti-immigration parties don't do more internationally to help other countries.

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Re: Global population movements from 1990 to 2023

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Post by igleria »

ricardobeat wrote: post #12

Interesting how South America, with several countries made up majorly of immigrants, receives almost no new migrants now. Meanwhile the middle-east population is fleeing and being replaced with asians?

At least in Argentina that is because it's not the land of opportunities it used to be in the late 19th/early 20th century.

Re: Global population movements from 1990 to 2023

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Post by eloisius »

ricardobeat wrote: post #12

Interesting how South America, with several countries made up majorly of immigrants, receives almost no new migrants now. Meanwhile the middle-east population is fleeing and being replaced with asians?

None of these regions have homogeneous conditions that mean anyone needs to be replacing fleeing locals to explain these stats. Millions of migrant workers are in the Gulf, and many of them come from the Philippines. Millions of people have fled conflicts in other parts of the Middle East.

Re: Global population movements from 1990 to 2023

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Post by photochemsyn »

jtbayly wrote: post #36
mettamage wrote: post #3

As the article points out. The researcher’s site has an exploratory tool to view the data [1]. [1] https://www.socsc.hku.hk/rhps/global-migration/

That tool could be interesting if there was a way to stop the rendered globe from spinning. As is, it is unusable

Select the more options pulldown menu, click on projection, select ‘natural Earth’, no spinning.

Re: Global population movements from 1990 to 2023

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Post by arrowsmith »

nomilk wrote: post #10

Only 1.7m people left North America in 2023 (4.4m arrivals). Would be interesting to compare to figures from 2025.

US had net negative migration in 2025 for the first time in decades:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/14/immigra...

Re: Global population movements from 1990 to 2023

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Post by 3stacks »

gadders wrote: post #32
mettamage wrote: post #3

As the article points out. The researcher’s site has an exploratory tool to view the data [1]. [1] https://www.socsc.hku.hk/rhps/global-migration/

If you pick 2023/2024 and the UK, you can see the disaster that is the Boris Wave.

Thoughts and prayers friend.

Re: Global population movements from 1990 to 2023

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Post by 3stacks »

photochemsyn wrote: post #44
jtbayly wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That tool could be interesting if there was a way to stop the rendered globe from spinning. As is, it is unusable

Select the more options pulldown menu, click on projection, select ‘natural Earth’, no spinning.

and it accurately displays the Earth (flat) globecels btfo

Re: Global population movements from 1990 to 2023

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Post by somelamer567 »

3stacks wrote: post #46
somelamer567 wrote: post #19

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I hope you aren't suggesting Russia is uniquely to blame in this when the United States has displaced tens of millions of people in the last 20 years

> Whataboutery (also known as whataboutism) is a debating tactic used to evade accountability. Instead of directly addressing a criticism, the accused responds with a counter-accusation or brings up a different, usually unrelated issue (often starting with "What about...?") to distract from the original argument.

I do see this a lot from pro-Russian trolls arguing in bad faith -- and using dirty rhetorical tricks to do so. Please don't stoop to their level.

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