UN: International migration surged 41 percent since 2000
The number of people who migrated to foreign countries surged by 41 percent in the last 15 years to reach 244 million in 2015, according to a United Nations study, writes Alexandra Olson of the Associated Press.
Of those people, 20 million are refugees. The UN is planning a series of meetings in 2016 to address migration. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a drop in the sea of international migration.
According to the UN report, the United States is the country with the largest portion of the world’s migrants: 47 million or a fifth of the total. Germany and Russia shared the No. 2 spot with about 12 million each, followed by Saudi Arabia (10 million), Britain (9 million) and the United Arab Emirates (8 million.)
KJ
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