Researchers from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) have unveiled a transformative new dataset on human mobility, revealing that global migration has risen sharply from approximately 13 million people per year in 2000 to around 35 million in 2023. Published in the leading scientific journal Nature, the findings demonstrate that the rise in migration significantly outpaces global population growth, reflecting a true per-capita increase in human mobility.

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HKU and LSE Joint Study Reveals Global Migration Nearly Tripled Since 2000, Outpacing Population Growth

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Global Annual Migration Data Explorer

Deep learning four decades of human migration