
June 28, 2010 - 16:20 AMT

23:19 GMT
Only 3% of the world’s population (or about 200 million people) live in a country different from their country of birth. Although this is the highest rate in the past 40 years, this rate hasn’t changed much in the last decade. Migration is a phenomenon that reflects economic, social and demographic imbalances across countries and requires a multi-disciplinary approach to understand and manage. But the fact remains that there is really still only small fraction of the world population who reside outside their country of birth.