International migration flows - selected countries

International migration flow data are essential to the analysis of international migration levels and trends because they document movements shortly after they have occurred whereas stock data document the cumulative effects of movements. While more recent, and thus more relevant for policy purposes, flow data are affected by limitations imposed by data availability, quality and comparability. Most data on international migration flows are available for relatively few developed countries beginning in the 1980s; few countries have complete data sets, and the data collected often suffer from definitional inconsistencies between countries as they are derived from administrative, not statistical, sources. The following section discusses international migration flows to and from developed countries. The data have been published in International Migration Flows To and From Selected Countries: The 2008 Revision (United Nations database, POP/DB/MIG/Flow/ Rev.2008).

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