Our story
Selected Countries
Displays Selected Countries
Migration flows over the last 30 years
To complete our visualization picture, we tell the story of how migration has evolved over the last 35 years. Utilizing data from 1980-2015 over a five year interval, we show the flow of male and female migrants from 195 non-OECD countries to 20 OECD countries by gender and education level. By clicking on the "By OECD" radio button, we can see flows into each individual OECD country. For example, we can see that in 1980, Canada allowed equal proportions of high-skilled and low-skilled migrants into the country. Fast forward to 2010, and it is selectively letting in many more high-skilled than low-skilled migrants.
1980: 1985: 1990: 1995: 2000: 2005: 2010:
Scatter Plot
Each dot on the plot to your left is a country's relative position in the migrant stock - average extra annual wage earned axes. Hovering over a dot provides the name of the country.
Brushing a dot or a list of dots changes other features of the visualization accordingly. For example, brushing the right-most green dot shows Pakistan's relative position in the graph and updates the bar plots as well as the corresponding gains estimate above the map layout. By migrating to OECD countries, the 270,000 or so Pakistani high-skilled migrants, gained on an average $35,000 in wages in 2010.
Bar Plot