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A map showing which countries people are moving into and which countries people are moving out of. (brilliantmaps.com)
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[โ€“] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 55 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

There is one thing the article omits which is very important: the time frame. At first it looks like this is based on 2024 numbers alone but seeing 52 million for the USA (about 15% of total population) and 16 million for Germany (20%) made me check the linked source. The data was aggregated over the last 35 years.

[โ€“] orclev@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

It also is using absolute numbers rather than any kind of normalized scale. If a country of 5 billion people has a million leave that's not exactly the same thing as a country with a population of 10 million having a million leave. A lot of these sorts of things suffer from this problem where the maps end up matching very closely to maps of population density.