Migration and the SDGs: Measuring Progress

This report from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) features global, regional, and national data on the status of women around the world, particularly within families, considering current economic, demographics, political, and social transformation. Families around the world can be places of care and fulfillment for women, but are too often also spaces where women’s and girls’ rights are violated, their voices are stifled, and where gender inequality…

This data portal from the International Organization for Migration provides the most recent data on migration worldwide, bringing together more than 70 migration data indicators from over 20 international data sources. Individuals can view migration patterns by country, subregion, and region, for any year between 1990–2021. Additionally, users can navigate between indicators in categories such as immigration and emigration, migrant flow, vulnerability of populations, development, migration policy, and public opinion. The portal curates a series of…

The current state of the world’s population is one of unprecedented demographic change, largely because of diverse patterns of fertility, mortality, and migration. These demographic forces (fertility, mortality, and migration) are transforming the size, structure, and spatial distribution of populations, varying by region. The materials in this resource pack on population dynamics and demographics detail the implications of demographic forces on the rate of population growth and change in age-structure (e.g., youth bulge, aging). The…