The number of male and female migrants has increased as the proportion of women (from 47% in 1960 to 49% currently, with differences between countries), but what really has changed over the past forty years is the fact that an increasing number of women is migrating independently in search of work, rather than as "dependent" family, traveling with their husbands or meet with them abroad.
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Total Population 2008 |
Number
of men and women who live abroad |
% of men and women who live abroad |
Begining of the feminization |
% of women in population living abroad |
% of women in porpulation living in... |
| World |
6,464,750,000 |
190,633,564 |
2.94% |
|
50% |
|
| Albania |
3,582,205 |
(1) 1,093,000 |
(1) 30.5% |
2000's |
(2) 13.2% |
(3) Greece
41% |
| Colombia |
44,531,434 |
(1) 3,331,000 |
(1) 7.3% |
|
|
(2) Spain
57.7% |
| Dominican Rep. |
8,562,541 |
(1) 1,027,505 |
(1) 12% |
90's |
(1) 52% |
(2) Spain
60% |
| Guatemala |
14,285,300 |
(1) 1,178,000 |
(1) 10% |
|
(1) 28% |
(1) USA
28% |
| Lesotho |
2,031,348 |
(1) 264,600 |
(1) 12.7% |
90's |
(1) 16% |
(2) South Africa
16% |
| Morocco |
33,241,259 |
(1) 2,200,000 |
(1) 7.5% |
End of 90's |
|
(2) Spain
36.5% |
| Philippines |
88,000,000 |
(1) 8,233,172 |
(1) 9% |
End of 80's |
(1) 58% |
(2) Italy
63% |
| SADC |
235,619,400 |
|
|
|
|
(1) South Africa
37.4% |
| Senegal |
11,987,121 |
(1) 409,701 |
(1) 2.8% |
End of 90's |
(2) 18.8% |
|
World
"Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, Trends in Total Migrant Stock: The 2005 Revision http://esa.un.org/migration
Albania
(1) Government of Albania (2005)
(2) Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), The encouragement of social-economic development in relation to the growth of the role of the remittances, Final draft, Research Report commissioned by UNDP and Soros Foundation, August 2003
(3) Greek Census 2001
Colombia
(1) DANE (Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística de Colombia), 2005
(2) Ministerio de Trabajo de España a septiembre de 2005
Dominican Rep.
(1) ODH/PNUD based on VIII National population and Housing Census, 2002
(2) Ministerio de Trabajo de España 2006
Guatemala
(1) OIM Guatemala, 2006
Lesotho
(1) World Bank, www.worldbank.org/prospects/migrationandremittances
(2) SAMP, Crush Jonatham y col., Migration, Remittances and Development in Southern Africa, Migration policy Series N.44, 2006
Morocco
(1) Report of the Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans Residing Overseas (2005), estimation of 2001
(2) Ministerio de Trabajo de España, marzo 2007"
Philippines
(1) OFW Global Presence. (2006), A Compendium of Overseas Employment Statistics 2006 by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), also accessed on http://www.poea.gov.ph/stats/2006Stats.pdf
(2) Instituto Italiano de Estadística (ISTAT), 200
SADC
(1) South Africa Census of 2001
Senegal
(1) World Migration Report 2000, OIM/ONU
(2) Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances, République du Sénégal, Direction de la Prévention et de la Statistique, Rapport de Synthèse de la Deuxième Enquête Sénégalaise Auprès des Ménages (ESAM-II), Juillet 2004 (tableau 8.22)
(1) ESAM 2 (DPS 2004)
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