Total number of international immigrants
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“Data Page: Total number of international immigrants”, part of the following publication: Fiona Spooner, Tuna Acisu, Simon van Teutem, Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Max Roser and Marcel Gerber (2022) - “Migration”. Data adapted from United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/migrant-stock-total [online resource]How to cite this data
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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in DataFull citation
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Total number of international immigrants” [dataset]. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, “International Migrant Stock 2024 - POP/DB/MIG/Stock/Rev.2024” [original data]. Retrieved March 26, 2025 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/migrant-stock-total