'Mobility divide' looms as poor stuck in fragile states, UN body says


  • World
  • Wednesday, 01 Dec 2021

GENEVA (Reuters) - Migration between richer countries has risen, while conflict and climate change have increased internal displacement in fragile states that many people cannot leave, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday.

Eighteen of the top 20 countries of origin for migrants in 2020 were highly developed, up from seven in 1995, said Marie McAuliffe, head of the U.N. migration agency's research division and editor of its 2022 World Migration Report.

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