This map looks at the most popular destination for each country’s migrants. The map was created by Reddit user DMan9797 using the UN’s Trends in International migrant stock: By destination and origin report.

Each country is coloured or tagged with the most popular destination for its migrants. For example, South Africa is pink, as pink represents the United Kingdom, meaning that the UK is the most popular destination for South Africans.

While the UK is the most attractive country for South Africans, the Brits are not interested in moving to South Africa, and are heading off to Australia instead.

And that’s OK, considering the overwhelming amount of people coming in to SA from the southern parts of Africa (just look at all that dark green).

The United Kingdom is still a hot destination to set up camp for those from former British colonies such as South Africa, Australia and Kenya, but not so much for Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India and Pakistan.

Indians and Pakistanis are instead heading to the Gulf instead of to their former British coloniser to look for work. The map indicates that Indians are making their way over to the United Arab Emirates and Pakistanis to Saudi Arabia.

There is no denying that the United States is the most popular destination for migrants across Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, Japan, Nigeria, Iran and Germany, but the same can’t be said about China.

Interestingly, Lithuania is the only Eastern European country still attracted to life in the UK.

The dark blue colouring of former French-speaking colonies in Africa, such as Algeria, Senegal and Cameroon, indicate that France is still the most popular destination.

It is important to mention that the map does not distinguish between different types of migrants or their varying statuses. It therefore does not account for the thousands of migrant workers smuggled into Southeast Asian countries.

In some countries the census may not account for immigrants who have become citizens. In some countries, children born to migrant parents are still considered migrants.

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