Countries by Net Migration

Fascinating!

Depends on their reason for immigrating; there are plenty besides economic ones. If I understand right, a major factor in the civil war was religion, since Sudan is a majority Muslim country and South Sudan has a much lower Muslim population. Perhaps many of the immigrants are Christians or other non-Muslims that would rather live in South Sudan.

And they may have been on their way south, but for whatever reason were unable to continue. South Africa, compared to a lot of places in Africa, is a nice place to live.

Can't believe I missed Mexico... only one I missed.

I also wondered why so many were moving to Oman. I googled it, but I still wonder why it would be any more welcoming than surrounding countries. Kalbahamut, having lived in the region do you have an answer?

I don't know. I guessed Saudi, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE before Oman. I have two guesses. One, Oman borders Yemen, and I think is more welcoming to refugees than Saudi Arabia. Two, I'm not sure how they count migration but if expat workers on residency permits don't count... then... those other countries are notoriously difficult to settle in. Saudi gives out permanent residency or citizenship to almost nobody.

My complete guess would be that Oman is starting develop more recently, so lots of people are coming anew, while elsewhere the numbers are more stable as people arrive but also leave.

Got them all this time. Picked up South Sudan with 7 seconds left.

For a second I thought the destinations matched up with the sources and I was trying to figure out why 1,200,000 Mexicans moved to the UK...

Would be nice to have some more Mexicans here....

hmm only missed Morocco. I started with Egypt and started heading west but none of them were answers so i gave up before I got to Morocco.

100% ! nice quizz !

How does Russia still manage to have a shrinking population with such a huge net influx of migrants? Also, where are they coming from that Russia looks like an attractive prospect right now?

- It's still a huge country, so to offset the low fertility rate it would need A LOT of immigrants

- I think mainly from Caucasus, Central Asia, China. There are many developed parts of Russia with lots of jobs, plus the first two are Russian speakers.

Right, of course their mother tongue is mostly something else (the most notable exception is Kazakhstan with a quarter of native Russian speakers), but a vast majority speak Russian as a second language, many with practically native level fluency. Foreign movies for example are shown only with Russian dubbing in many countries, no local subtitles or dubbing.

Things have changed the most in Georgia, where many young people don't speak Russian but they're much better in English.

I bet most of the Mexican immigrants are illegal immigrants and most of the Syrian immigrants are refugees.

Not all immigrants from Mexico are illegal, yes there are many who flee to America without actually waiting for asylum and stuff, but you underestimate how many are actually coming in legally. For instance, my aunt was being naturalized as an American citizen, more than half the people in that auditorium (other than the family of the immigrants) stood up when Mexico was called. that was only one group (of like 3000 people), but multiple happen in a day.

Wow, guessed Oman with 35 seconds left and got it. I was not expecting it to be right at all.

It's not just over a five-year period: It's five years old. Your data ends in 2012, doesn't it? It seems like that would be worth mentioning.

Almost got them all. Didn't expect the Philippines.

That was the first one I guessed. The Filipino Diaspora is huge.

Incredibly interesting

No Jordan, It has 3 million Syrian refugees there

what about venezuela it is currently going through an economical crisis, i think this quiz needs updating