In all decades until the 1960s, Canada was the most common country of origin for immigrants to the United States from other parts of the Americas. This changed with the introduction of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, where migration became easier for those from countries in the Global South, while Canadian migration fell due to the rising prosperity in the country. Since the 1960s, Mexico has consistently been the most common country of origin for immigrants to the United States in each decade, and its all-time total is now the highest in the world. Outside of North America, the Caribbean was the region with the highest level of migration to the U.S., particularly from Cuba and the Dominican Republic, and the region's all-time total has now overtaken that of Canada (additionally, it should be noted that Caribbean figures do not count Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands: both territories of the United States).

Venezuela is the leading country of origin of Latin American immigrants in Mexico. In 2023, around 145,204 people whose country of origin was Venezuela registered as incoming migrants with the Mexican authorities. Outside Central America, the most important country of origin for Latin American and Caribbean migrants entering Mexico was Ecuador, with 38,819 people.

Graph and download economic data for International Migrant Stock, Total for Developing Countries in Latin America and Caribbean (SMPOPTOTLLAC) from 1960 to 2015 about Caribbean Economies, Latin America, migration, World, and 5-year.

Historical chart and dataset showing Latin America & Caribbean immigration statistics by year from 1960 to 2015.

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The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities to the major immigration waves of the 19th and early 20th centuries, that the demographic and economic forces behind Latin American migrant inflows appear to have weakened across most sending countries, and that a continued slowdown of immigration from Latin America post-pandemic has the potential to disrupt labor-intensive sectors in many US regional labor markets.

The annual population growth in Latin America & the Caribbean increased by 0.1 percentage points (+16.67 percent) in 2023 in comparison to the previous year. In total, the population growth amounted to 0.69 percent in 2023. Population growth refers to the annual change in population, and is based on the balance between birth and death rates, as well as migration.

This dataset is the result of an experiment conducted in nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and published as the book "A Better World for Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean". This project is joint work between the IDB and UNDP. The databases contain data collected for the impact evaluation of an intervention designed to explore which mechanisms are more effective in changing people's beliefs and attitudes toward migrants. The experiment was conducted in nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and consisted of two video interventions. The first video, the informative video, aimed to correct misinformation about the impact of migration by providing accurate information about the size of the migrant population and its characteristics. The second video, an emotive video, intended to appeal to the emotions and empathy of the local population.

A significant proportion of the international migration occurs between low- and middle-income countries. Chile has become a popular target destination for migrants from South America and the Caribbean. Haitian immigration has raised rapidly since 2015, with an estimated 179,338 Haitian-born residents living in Chile at the end of 2018. There is no objective information regarding the health of this immigrant population. The objectives of the present study were to describe the main characteristics of the Haitian adult population living in Chile as well as the prevalence of selected transmissible and non-transmissible health conditions in this population. A cross-sectional survey was performed inviting Haitian-born residents in Chile older than 18 years old. The survey included a structured interview, anthropometric measurements and a blood sample. Common conditions and risk factors for disease were assessed, as well as selected transmissible conditions (HIV, HBV and HCV).

Between 1500 and 1820, an estimated 2.58 million Europeans migrated to the Americas, namely from the British Isles, Portugal, Spain, France and Germany. Until the mid-1600s, the majority of European migrants were from the Iberian Peninsula, as Portugal and Spain had a 150 year head start over other European powers when building their overseas empires. However, by the end of the century, more settlers from the British Isles had emigrated to the New World than from Spain or Portugal; the majority of which migrated to British colonies in the Caribbean as indentured servants or prisoners. The 18th century also saw migrants from other European nations begin to migrate en masse, particularly those from France and the German states, although migration from the British Isles and Portugal remained at the highest levels.

In comparison to the almost 2.6 million Europeans migrants, it is estimated that over 8.6 million Africans were forced across the Atlantic during this time period, as part of the transatlantic slave trade. The first half of the 19th century saw the demise of the transatlantic slave trade, which was followed by an influx of white migration to the Americas from across Europe; this contributed heavily to reversing demographic trends and making those with African ancestry an ethnic minority in most American countries today.

In 2024, approximately 948,000 million people migrated to the United Kingdom, while 517,000 people migrated from the UK, resulting in a net migration figure of 431,000. There have consistently been more people migrating to the United Kingdom than leaving it since 1993 when the net migration figure was negative 1,000. Although migration from the European Union has declined since the Brexit vote of 2016, migration from non-EU countries accelerated rapidly from 2021 onwards. In the year to June 2023, 968,000 people from non-EU countries migrated to the UK, compared with 129,000 from EU member states. Immigration and the 2024 election Since late 2022, immigration, along with the economy and healthcare, has consistently been seen by UK voters as one of the top issues facing the country. Despite a pledge to deter irregular migration via small boats, and controversial plans to send asylum applicants to Rwanda while their claims are being processed, Rishi Sunak's Conservative government lost the trust of the public on this issue. On the eve of the last election, 20 percent of Britons thought the Labour Party would be the best party to handle immigration, compared with 13 percent who thought the Conservatives would handle it better. Sunak and the Conservatives went on to lose this election, suffering their worst defeat in modern elections. Historical context of migration The first humans who arrived in the British Isles, were followed by acts of conquest and settlement from Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, and Normans. In the early modern period, there were also significant waves of migration from people fleeing religious or political persecution, such as the French Huguenots. More recently, large numbers of people also left Britain. Between 1820 and 1957, for example, around 4.5 million people migrated from Britain to America. After World War Two, immigration from Britain's colonies and former colonies was encouraged to meet labour demands. A key group that migrated from the Caribbean between the late 1940s and early 1970s became known as the Windrush generation, named after one of the ships that brought the arrivals to Britain.

Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine the main changes in the levels and trends of global highly skilled migration between 2000 and 2010, with special emphasis on what happens in the Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC). The paper takes as analytical axes the selective immigration policies of highly skilled migrants in the countries of destination, the limited incorporation of them in the origin countries, and their precarious labor incorporation in the economies of the global North. The information used here is the recently published database by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) known as DIOC 2000/01 and 2010/11. The article shows an accelerated increase in skilled labor migration (particularly in the case of women), an increase in the "brain drain" between 2000 and 2010, and an increasingly precarious and unfavorable labor insertion for highly skilled migrants of LAC.

This repository contains two sets of analyses and raw data. The first folder ("monarch_morphology_primary_analysis") contains the raw data and code used for generating all of the analyses and figures reported in the main manuscript. The second folder ("RAFM_and_DRIFTSEL") contains raw data and code used for some of the analyses reported in the supplementary materials.

The first file "wings_04.25.20.csv" contains all measurements from museum and contemporary wild caught monarch specimens. The measurement protocol is described in the manuscript. The raw data file includes the following columns:

Index: variable for sorting purposes.
SampleID: unique identifier for each individual butterfly.
Collection: refers to the ID of the collection from which images were taken.
Region: refers to the broad geographic region from which the monarch butterfly was collected. Regions include North America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Pacific Islands, and the Atlantic.
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While the European colonization and settlement of other world regions largely began in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was not until the 19th century when the largest waves of migration began to take place. In early years, migration rates were comparatively low; in all of the Americas, the slave population actually outnumbered that of Europeans for most of the given period. Then, with the development of steam ships, intercontinental travel became more affordable and accessible to the masses, and voluntary migration from Europe rose significantly. Additionally, larger numbers of Asian migrants, especially from India and China, migrated to Australia, the Caribbean, and U.S. from the mid-1800s; although the U.S. and Australia both introduced policies that limited or prevented Asian immigration throughout most of the early 1900s. International migration between 1913 and 1950 was also comparatively low due to the tumultuous nature of the period, which involved both World Wars and the Great Depression.