Bilateral international migration flow estimates by sex
Estimates of bilateral international migration flows by sex between 1990-1995 and 2015-2020 based on methods presented in Abel & Cohen (2022). Part of collection of files related to bilateral international migration flow estimates by sex. See the Figshare collection for other files, including additional bilateral estimates by sex and type of move (outward migration, return migration, and transit migration).
You might also be interested in files for total bilateral international migration flow estimates, provided in another Figshare collection.
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Version Details
Estimates of international migration flows by sex from Abel & Cohen (2022) based on the most recent published UN DESA International Migrant Stock (IMS2020) and World Population Prospects (WPP2024) data inputs.
See Version 1 (link above) for estimates presented in the paper, based on WPP2019 and IMS2020.
A description of the changes between each version of the estimates (of total flows, not by sex) can be found here.
Data Details
Row for each migration corridor - period - sex combination (226 origins x 226 destinations x 3 periods x 2 sexes + 227 origins x 227 destinations x 1 period x 2 sexes + 230 origins x 230 destinations x 2 periods x 2 sexes = 621,114).
Four columns for each of the data dimensions:
year0 | First year of five-year period |
sex | Sex of persons |
orig | Origin ISO three letter country code |
dest | Destination ISO three letter country |
Six columns of estimated flows from six different flow-from-stock estimation method:
sd_drop_neg | Stock differencing, drop negative values |
sd_rev_neg | Stock differencing, reverse negative values to counterflow |
mig_rate | Migration rates method |
da_min_open | Demographic accounting, minimize migrant transitions (maximize stayers) - open accounting system |
da_min_closed | Demographic accounting, minimize migrant transitions (maximize stayers) - closed accounting system |
da_pb_closed | Demographic accounting, pseudo-Bayesian average of migrant transitions and stayers - closed accounting system |
See the paper for full details on each of the methods and the usage notes.
