At least five financial groups or think tanks have published 2025 projections about "net migration" — how the number of people immigrating to the U.S. compares with the number moving out of the ...

Net migration rate heavily varies by country, due to factors like war, politics, and economics. See how countries' net migration rates compare.

Migration is often framed as a crisis: When the issue makes headlines, it’s portrayed as a burden, threat, or tragedy, and almost always politically intractable. In reality, migration represents an ...

The human species is on the move. Last year there were more people living outside of their birth countries than at any other time in modern history, according to the United Nations. It’s a sea change ...

We quiz a migration minister, reveal why African passports are desirable for the super-rich and find out which nations are short of architects and fishmongers. Of the many issues roiling our politics, ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...

Here, hurricanes had an outsized effect on income migration. The effect of hurricanes on income lost through migration was more than twice as strong as the effect on loss of actual people, suggesting ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to Africa as the continent from which our ancestors dispersed in the Late ...

The movement of people away from their place of usual residence—known as migration—has long shaped human history. These patterns, which involve many types of movement, including across international ...