Demographic data and employment of migrant workers in SA
This statistical analysis by the Migrating for Work Research Consortium provides information on migrants' age, gender, population group, level of education, employment and type of occupation.
The UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, releases the Global Trends in Forced Replacement report annually. It analyses changes in populations of concern and tracks data on numbers of refugees and asylum seekers.
An interactive map providing information on outward flows of migrants, migrants entering a country as well as the countries they are from. It is hosted on the International Organisation for Migration's website and contains data up to 2015.
Chapter 4 of the ninth World Migration Report provides research and analysis on migration growth and reach. It includes data on Nigeria's flow of remittances. The 364-page report can be downloaded in PDF from the International Organisation for Migration website.
A tracker that allows an understanding of the scope of displacement and the needs of affected populations in the conflict-affected states of northeast Nigeria (Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe).
Refugee population by country or territory of asylum
Information on refugee size and territory of asylum, sorted by country on the World Bank's databank. The data is from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Statistics Database, Statistical Yearbook and data files, complemented by statistics on Palestinian refugees
A Migration Policy Institute (MPI) resource that includes maps and data on refugees' and asylum seekers’ places of origin, current residence as well as annual asylum applications by country of destination.
The UNHCR refugee agency's Population Statistics Database provides data, up to 2014, on global populations of concern, as defined by the UN, such as refugees and asylum seekers. Interactive country data is visualised in map format.