# Mapping of global migration

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2016-07-06

australia, canada, emmigration, global, global-migration, immigration, mapping, max-galka, metrocosm, migration, movement-of-people, people, population-devision, syria, uncategorized, united-nations, united-states, visualization

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Max Galka has created an incredible visualization of [country-to-country net migration (from 2010 to 2015)](http://metrocosm.com/global-immigration-map/) on his blog, Metrocosm.

Here’s a screenshot:

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/cd68fcf3fea30af7e058573e0771d40e.png)

But you really need to view the [full screen interactive version](http://metrocosm.com/global-migration-map.html). 

In that version, you can hover over a country to see the total net migration number (+/-) and you can click on a country to see where people are moving to and from. A blue circle indicates positive net migration (greater inflows) and a red circle indicates negative net migration (greater outflows).

All of the data is from the United Nations Population Division. And though the numbers are estimates, it’s a fascinating look at global migration. For instance, look at the outflow from Syria.

It would also be interesting to see these numbers on a per capita basis because some countries certainly punch above or below their weight in terms of migration. Off the top of my head, I’m thinking of Canada and Australia vis-à-vis the US.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/mapping-of-global-migration)*