Stastical Sources
Please see our Data and Statistical Sources: Labor and Employment guide for an extensive list of sources by category. Resources below are focused on migration.
Migration statistics
- Immigration Statistics (Department of Homeland Security)The Department of Homeland Security provides statistics on legal permanent residents, naturalized citizens, refugees, and immigration law enforcement.
- Migration Data HubA portal from the Migration Policy Institute.
- Refugee Processing Center (U.S.)-- Historical Arrivals Broken Down by Region (1975 – Present)
-- Cumulative Arrivals by State for Refugee and SIV (Special Immigrant Visa) - Afghan
-- Cumulative Arrivals by State for Refugee and SIV – Iraqi
-- SIV Arrivals by Nationality by Month (Posted after the 5th of the following month)
-- Top 10 Languages Spoken by Arrived Refugees (Posted Quarterly)
-- Refugee Arrivals by State and Nationality (Posted after the 5th of the following month)
-- Geographic Mapping of Arrivals - Migration/Geographic Mobility - U.S. Census BureauOverview of the range of statistics that the U.S. Census Bureau collects, produces, and publishes about geographic mobility and migration.
- Migration Data PortalThe Portal aims to serve as a unique access point to timely, comprehensive migration statistics and reliable information about migration data globally. The site is designed to help policy makers, national statistics officers, journalists and the general public interested in the field of migration to navigate the increasingly complex landscape of international migration data, currently scattered across different organisations and agencies. The Portal was launched in December 2017 and is managed and developed by IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), with the guidance of its Advisory Board, and was supported in its conception by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
- OECD Migration DatabaseThe OECD manages several databases dedicated to International Migration on migration and flows and stocks in OECD countries, labor market characteristics of immigrants in OECD countries, and some data for non-OECD countries.
- Global Bilateral Migration - World BankGlobal matrices of bilateral migrant stocks spanning the period 1960-2000, disaggregated by gender and based primarily on the foreign-born concept.
- Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPex)MIPEX measures migrant integration policies in all European Union Member States plus Norway, Switzerland, Canada and the USA up to 31 May 2010, using 148 policy indicators.
- Princeton - Mexican Migration Project"The MMP....enables researchers to track patterns and processes of contemporary Mexican immigration to the United States. The project is a multi-disciplinary research effort that generates public use data on the characteristics and behavior of Mexican migrants." See: Office of Population Research at Princeton University for more information. Registration required. [homepage]