Compared with 2000, the number of migrants increased by 49%. The new report of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations says that more than 258 million people in the world are migrants, which is 3.4% of the world's total population, and this number continues to grow. It is noted that in comparison with 2000 the number of migrants increased by 49%. About 26 million migrants (10% of the total number) are refugees. The largest number of migrants, namely 49.8 million people, or 19% of all migrants, live in the US. In Saudi Arabia, Germany and Russia, the number of migrants reaches about 12 million people in each country. In the UK, the number of migrants is nine million people.

The greatest number of migrants are immigrants from India? 17 million people, in second place Mexicans? 13 million. Natives of Russia, China, Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan and Ukraine also constitute a significant part of the migrants, namely 6 to 11 million people from each of these countries. Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian migrants are the most in Russia, Canada, Poland, the US and Brazil.

Original article: The United Nations recorded an increase in the number of migrants in the world.