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Percy
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05-12-2014 11:21 AM


Don't know if there's much interest here, but I accidentally came across this chart of world migration patterns:
Article can be found here: Where everyone in the world is migratingin one gorgeous chart
Interesting tidbits:
  • Migration rate has held roughly constant over the past 20 years.
  • People emigrate most from countries in transition rather than countries in poverty.
  • Biggest flow in the world is from Mexico to the US.
--Percy
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Changed image small size from 400 to 800. Still click on it if you want to see the huge version. Also corrected a (shocking) misspelling/typo (rougly to roughly).
Edited by Percy, : Reduce image width a little - wouldn't fit in a half-monitor-width browser window.

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faceman
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Message 2 of 7 (726804)
05-12-2014 7:41 PM
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05-12-2014 11:21 AM


That's a cool chart - I'd love to know what reporting tool created that (pretty sure it wasn't SSRS).
Mexico looks like a sinking ship.

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Message 3 of 7 (726805)
05-12-2014 8:00 PM
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05-12-2014 7:41 PM


With fewer passengers, the Ship of Mexico should be more buoyant.
Perhaps the figurative ship is infelicitous; Mexicans aren't rats.

"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."

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faceman
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Message 4 of 7 (726806)
05-12-2014 11:51 PM
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05-12-2014 8:00 PM


Rats aren't the only ones to flee a sinking ship. Humans have been known to as well. That's not quite so malapropos, now is it?

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Message 5 of 7 (726819)
05-13-2014 9:39 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Percy
05-12-2014 11:21 AM


Faceman's question does raise an issue about the diagram. The appearance, at least at a glance, is that nearly every Mexican and every Peruvian has left the building. But that's not right.
The width is net immigration. So the graph really shows lots of people leaving and almost no one is emigrating to Mexico rather than that some extremely high per percent of Mexico's population have left their country.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

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Message 6 of 7 (726830)
05-13-2014 10:34 AM
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05-13-2014 9:39 AM


Also, many Central Americans (and some South Americans) come into Mexico en route to El Norte: most of them don't make it. Freight trains into Mexico from Central America have often carried more stowaways on their cars' roofs than passenger trains carry inside.
Perhaps some of that Mexico-U.S. immigration stream includes the Central Americans who do make it, but I don't see any representation of the influx into Mexico.
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Message 7 of 7 (726858)
05-13-2014 1:00 PM
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05-12-2014 11:21 AM


Most of Asia is currently working at the local Tim Hortons.

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