Visualizing Global Migration 

As a Kazakh, I'd like to add a little context. At the 3:43 mark you can see that there is a huge number of people immigrating from Kazakhstan to Russia, Germany and Ukraine. These are Germans, Russians and Ukrainians, who were forcefully deported in Kazakhstan during Soviet times (or their children) and they are now returning back home.

Indian here, I am really saddened by the state of braindrain here.The govt. and the public both are at fault for this, but I do hope the situation improves.

Romanian here. Basically the migration is powered by a combination of lack of jobs + the large number of opportunities you have by being an EU member. The migration is not only external, internally most of the people are moving to the bigger cities leaving the rural and smaller cities empty that eventually creates a big hole in the regional economy forcing more people to migrate, it's an infinite cycle that will only accelerate in the following years in my opinion.

Interesting. Jamaica’s number of people living abroad is insane compared to their population. The Chinese diaspora mostly goes to the US despite the tensions

Weird how China, which has seen staggering economic growth in the past few decades, and is the biggest country by population, gets pretty much no immigrants compared to the EU and USA

South Asia, what I think happened 1)The large number of Indians in Pakistan (and vice versa) is because of the Partition in 1947 when millions of people had to uproot their lives and move to one of the newly independent 2 nations 2)Sri Lanka saw mass migration during its civil wars, when Sri Lankan Tamilians moved to Indian state of Tamil Nadu & other countries where Indian Tamils r populated: Singapore & Australia 3)Bangladesh saw mass migration to India during 1971 Bangladesh's Liberation war from Pakistan and Pakistan's Operation search light prior to that when Pakistan conducted a genocide on native Bengalis. 4)Nepalese & Bangladeshis also regularly move to India in search of better lives and jobs. 5) millions of people from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India work in Gulf Nations in various fields (mostly labour) while many Indians have become neutralized citizens of UAE, Kuwait & Oman. 6) overqualified professionals & millionaires from India moved to US and Canada in search of better jobs .

That's indeed one of the best visualisation videos I've ever seen on RU-vid.

I kinda want this to be interactive so we can explore it more directly

"Vietnamese immigrants" to China are mostly ethnic Chinese from the Northern Vietnam, who took refuge in China a few decades ago.

I think it’s also notable that the former USSR countries tend to move to each other

This is very interesting!!! Here in Canada we have a large South Asia and Chinese population. Keep up the great work

Some context on both Japan and China, both have a lot of foreigners working there. However, to become a permanent resident is extremely difficult, and by design in both places. I don't think this data accounted for that, it only counts permanent immigration.

All emigrants from India go these 4 regions : 1. USA/Canada 2. Middle East 3. Western Europe 4. Australia Thats it (Indians in other countries are minimal).

1) Myanmar to India - millions of Rohingyas have entered India and Bangladesh have entered illegally. So you might not have found on official data of immigrants.

4:17 Mexico be like

This video was so cool to watch! keep up the good work :)

This is one of the coolest video I have seen in a while. I really appreciate the effort that has gone into this and found it super interesting and learnt heaps from this video and the comments.

There are so many Greeks in Australia that Melbourne is sometimes called the third largest Greek city in the world behind Athens and Thessaloniki. Also an absurd number of Kiwis and Brits, people born in the UK alone account for like 4% of Australia’s population and something like 1 in 6 of all New Zealanders live in Australia.

Indonesia is 4th Most Populous country in the world, but not many Indonesians immigrate & Not Many people immigrate to Indonesia

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Loved this video! Greeting from Argentina ♥️

As a Filipino, I can confirm that many migrated to other nations such as US and the Arab nations for higher pay and to support their families, my aunt is a nurse (which by the way most of our nurses travel to other nations especially US because the pay is also higher) and my mother's aunt is in an Arab nation (I forgot which one), they heavily support us, just like my aunt gives me and ny cousins an average of about 40$ (it's 2000 in our currency which is already high) and my mother's aunt gives us things to support us

This was awesome to visualize, thank you!

That is very cool! Indeed, there is a lot of "brain drain" in Romania as people are generally overqualified & underpaid (it's common for a Romanian to have Masters level education but be offered 500 euro salary). Most people choose to go into STEM fields while the country itself offers few such career opportunities. Ironically, there is a strong STEM-based education left over from the soviet era. Not super-modern, but still decent. IT & engineering are seen as good professions, closely followed by law & healthcare. Romanian students joke that if you don't want either, you can always study business & hope for a corporate job. And of course, the elephant in the room, the political system. Up until recently, the social-democrat party (basically the "diet communism" guys) used to win most elections. Somehow :) They are known for being exceptionatelly corrupt & opposed to progress. So many people who left were just done with that. There are some ongoing reforms in education, salary structure & funds for business start-ups which aim to retain highly skilled workers. But it takes time.

Yep, Brazil is culturally separate from the continent, we speak portuguese and had portuguese colonization as the others had Spain as colonizer - and our independence is pretty particular (we become a empire by ourselves leaded by a portuguese prince LOL) and very late compared to the Spanish America. Also a brazilian most will look for USA or Europe (Portugal) as a viable opportunity and south americans don't see Brazil as their first choice because of this disconnection (except Venezuelans nowadays, but is the communist Venezuela of today, anything goes - but even for them we are second choice to Colombia). We also had a big flux from emgirants at the early 20 century "coming to Brazil", this is how you end with the brazilian-japanese thing, but we also have big colonies of portugueses (obviously) but also italians, germans and spaniards.

*Indonesia* : hmm nobody wants to migrate here *The immigrant* : we're not migrating, we're just prolonged our stay to indefinite days

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Turkiye: *exists* Syria: imma slide in

Greek here, you summed up the destinations greeks go to. USA, Germany, Australia (which has a huge greek diaspora so it is more welcome to greeks) and to lesser extent the UK.

I thought at the end of the video, this guy would say "I am Giovanni Georgio, but everybody calls me Georgio."

Difference between many other countries & India is, that Many Immigrants to USA,etc are high skilled workers in STEM. While other countries, the immigration is of comparatively poor people/displaced due to war,etc

This is interesting! I'm from the UK I live in a rural area so literally everyone is British however in cities there are very big Indian and West African populations, and many many Eastern Europeans.

This is a really interesting video thank you for making this

Literally nobody moving to Brazil. Not even we Brazilians would move to Brazil.

Here in Saudi Arabia, the number of foreigners has reached nearly 40% and they are now have the most jobs, and unemployment has spread among the native Saudis.

Keep The interesting things up man!

A Russian here! Its estimated that by the end of the century there will be 90-100 million Russians and many of them will have the Central Asia origin -- you depicted this migration wave very well here!

When people say why don't muslim countries take any refugees they need to look at this video.

I really liked the new things you did in this Video. Keep up the great work👍

It's interesting as indonesian that we are one of the few countries with no migration route. Good video.

In Croatia, similarly to Romania, many people move to germanic-speaking countries like Germany, Austria, and Sweden. However, the Croats who live in Serbia mostly came there during Yugoslavia.

You missed out to mention how literally all the syrians immigrated to Turkiye 🤧 They are like 8 million now

Surprised to see more Eritreans in Sudan than in Ethiopia, especially when they're cultural almost identical to northern Ethiopia and even sharing a common language

Spain has the second highest life expectancy in the world just after Japan but also one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. Inmigration is crucial to the economy and we're lucky to share a lot of things with LATAM countries, Morocco and Romania/Moldavia that make them choose to come here. I wish old-fashioned spaniards who are still nationalistic saw the bigger picture.

Can we talk about the fact that Mongolia isn't present at all. No one comes and no one goes away.

a very interesting video especially for me because I'm from Saudi Arabia and over half of our population are immigrants !

I think Brazilian immigration to Portugal is a bit understated, maybe the stats havent caught up. There is a truly massive influx of brazilians coming to Portugal, which is still on going. You can see it everywhere, especially in cities. As a portuguese-brazilian, this is quite interesting to see.

I like how countryballs get flung like baseballs

Hi from Greece. I have ex classmates (some good friends) in Switzerland, the US (Chicago, New York, New Jersey), the UK, Israel, Australia, Germany, France and some are thinking about Italy and Spain right now. Many people go to work in Arab countries too. Mostly the UAE and Saudi Arabia. It's a bit sad really. At least this generation are going to work in good positions. Last century it was mostly people that couldn't even speak a second language leaving their families to work as blue collar workers. As the economy improves it seems that brain drain is getting better though.

It's actually important to note that interestingly, most countries that received most emigrants are beacon of democracy in their respective region. India for South Asia, USA for North America, Australia for Oceania, Malaysia for Southeast Asia, Western European countries for Eurasia, Japan for East Asia and Chile and Argentina for South America.

Interesting to find beside being 4th largest populations in the world, there were none of immigration happened in Indonesia. But we do have a lot of immigrations though. Many Chinese, Europeans, Indians, or Middle eastern countries come here hundred years ago. But most of them already assimilate with locals. And of course some of them still keep their original culture, such as chinese Indonesian for example

Great work!

Brasilian here: we do have a strong conection with Japan, everyone with “asian eyes” are friendly callled “japa”, and it is due to the large imigration of jappanese workers in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

That's a LOT of Post-Soviet countries emigrating to Russia, particularly Central Asian ones

Very nice video. I want to add a bit of context to the 'emigration' of Armenians to Azerbaijan. These are not necessarily emigrating to Azerbaijan, but to Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed area self-governed by Armenians but internationally recognized to be part of Azerbaijan.

Romanian/Irish here, ( born in ireland, parents from romania) My parents had fled to ireland because of the lack of job opportunities and the mild poverty that they were living in, they saw ireland as a place for opportunity so they moved there in the early 2000s, then, they saw the sheer increase of house prices and rent in ireland so we moved to canada, where now currently, the government will not let or accept us to be official citizens of canada, so we are stil immigrants and on a tourist visa, we had to keep renewing our tourist visa, for almost 5 years. why everywhere we move, things just wont turn out right?

hong kongers in uk here there'd be more ppl from hk migrating to mostly uk,canada and australia (likely in that order) in the coming years as they offer us easier pathways for citizenship Fun fact:Tho uk has a deeper historical ties to hk than canada does,a lot of previous waves of migrants in the 80s/90s went to canada and vancouver is called the most hk city outside hk

Cool map good job 👍

So malaysia is one of the biggest country that receive immigrants and refugees in southeast Asia??

Awesome video!

The migration to middle east is different from the Migratin to Europe and USA. These are just workers. And after the work is over, they will have to return to their own country. You can't be a permanent resident in middle east. But most people migrate to Europe and USA will become a permanent resident.

Damm bro, this is amazing this must of took ages!

Lybia has more emmigrants that Egypt?(or at least 100k by 100k per country)

I wish there was a way to download this map!

Fun fact: By population Chicago is the second biggest Bulgarian city 1.Sofia 1.5 mill 2.Chicago 500k 3-4 Plovdiv and Varna with around 300k

It's kinda sad to see not many people migrating to asia. I guess they're not as welcoming to foreigners as some of the other countries. I thought europe and asia would be more homogeneous because they're both part of the old continent, but now I know that europe is clearly more cosmopolitan.

Fun fact, the top three most migrated places from China (not including Hong Kong, which is in China) is also the top three most hated countries in China

Brazil is, unsurprisingly to people who live here, one of the countries with the most closed population in the world - and it has been so for at least 70 years now. Its really rare to see immigrants in general, but surely more than Portuguese and Venezuelans do exist

As a British person, I would thanks Mali for betraying the French and joining the superior British side, and most other Countries for joining the British side, that's all I want to say (1:52)

So usa, europe and gulf countries get most immigrants. I wonder when oil money decrease how will immigration to gulf countries look as many are trying to diversify like uae trying to make dubai new financial hub in world(informally tax haven) and saudi arabia is most aggressive about diversifying its economy whereas qatar is tapping on gas and tourism

3:41 Indonesia I don't think a lot of Indonesians moved to Bangladesh. Who are they?

Where is people to Indonesia ... I didnt see it on movie

As a Mexican i can say that most of the people migrating are going to the U.S., Canada and Spain in that order.

Many Indians in Pakistan, Pakistanis in India are actually migrants from 1947.

This is amazing, thank you!

This is fun to watch

You put Puerto Rico and the US as separate countries. They are actually the same country. Puerto Rico is a US territory that will likely become a state in the next few years.

Hongkonger here. I think UK will be the most destination for emigrants of Hongkongers very soon because most HKers who have emigrated these two years have emigrated to UK the most for very obvious reasons

How do u get to that map

nice video really helpful thank you :))

Very good video ; which software did you use ?

one day you can analyze the case that many argentinians, and people descending from italians in south america, increase this balance of italy migration (and maybe not argentina migrations)

What's the name of that site

Fun fact: There are more people descended from Puerto Ricans living in the US than in Puerto Rico.

interesting thing is, none that big number of immigration goes to indonesia... is 4th population nation also one of big country (from east to west is streching longer than mainland US)... and also very rare indonesian migrate to another country, that why indonesia is underrepresentation in many world eyes...

Why do so many people migrate to Argentina so few Argentines leave Argentina? Argentina may be the second largest economy in South America, but at the same time it is the most unstable (better to pretend that Venezuela doesn't exist) and it is in a terrible economic crisis, in terms of stability Uruguay is by far the best option and in terms of potential economic growth I would choose Colombia.

Indonesia ? Where

Hi from Pakistan , My both Maternal Paternal Grandparents came from India to Pak in 47 , part of worlds largest forced migration in recorded history of Mankind !! My maternal grandma later moved to Chicago US

From which year is this data?. Nice video btw

It should be noted: Elon Musk immigrated to Canada when he was 17, NOT the United States.

3:53 why did you leave an explanation when it's Philippines turn as top 9?

Bangladeshi migrants are mostly high skilled migrant workers who servers in multiple nations. And another group are labours who are not full-time migrants but they work for a long time in the places like middle east.

I think its interesting that Brazil is barely filled up despite having a very interracial population.

Yeah I’m India born in the United States, there’s a lot of south Asians where I live lol, good informational video

Interesting video

Excellent

Can there be missing emigration balls on Turkiye? There are lots of people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, continent Africa who have came in recent years, also Bosnians, Uzbeks, Kazaks, Ukranians, Russians. It was said that data is based on UN but they are a lot in Turkiye. Is the reason why you didn't put them because they are not registered?

Hungarian here, many ethnic Hungarians migrate from Romania to Hungary as it's richer and they are not a minority there unlike in Romania

Negara indonesia ga ada yah orang imigrasi masuk atau imigrasi keluar indonesia?

I didnt know small circles forward had another channel. You have been keeping your balls rolling huh? 😳