A Region on the Move 2025: Middle East and North Africa

This publication offers a comprehensive, evidence-based analysis of one of the world’s most complex and dynamic mobility landscapes where labour migration, protracted displacement, environmental stressors and socioeconomic transitions converge. Leveraging harmonized datasets from IOM (DTM, MiMOSA, AVRR), UN DESA and national statistical systems, the report provides an integrated view of trends shaping migration, displacement, remittances, urbanization, skills mobility and governance reforms across the MENA region. It underscores the critical role of timely, comparable and disaggregated data in anticipating future movements, expanding safe and regular pathways, and advancing protection-sensitive, development-oriented migration policies aligned with the Global Compact for Migration, the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union’s Agenda 2063.