Practice question · True or false
Around 96 per cent of the world’s population lives in the country where they were born.
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- The migrant share is well under five per cent on the United Nations estimate.
- About 281 million international migrants against a world population above seven and a half billion.
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Why
True, on the 2020 United Nations estimate of about 281 million international migrants, roughly 3.6 per cent of the world’s people. The figure is worth carrying into any discussion of migration policy, because public estimates of the migrant share in surveys are routinely several times too high.
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