The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 updates the 2008 edition of the Factbook with additional data for 71 … remittances, drawing on authoritative, publicly available data. It provides a snapshot of statistics on immigration, emigration …: More than 215 million people, or 3 percent of the world population, live outside their countries of birth. Current …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … migrants, rather than characteristics of their family situations, explains much of the higher remittances …