Global migration route map

Click any country to trace where its people are moving and on which visa categories, or flip to arrivals to see who is flowing in. Indicative annual flows for 2025-26, compiled from public aggregates and broken down into skilled, study, family, business, working-holiday, humanitarian and visitor movement.

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Every migration corridor

Each corridor has its own key-facts page: annual volume, the visa-category mix, what is driving the flow, and the exact VisaChief visa pages that apply. Sorted by size.

Mexico → United States~3.2M/yr · Skilled & work ledChina → Japan~2.5M/yr · Study ledIndia → United Arab Emirates~2M/yr · Skilled & work ledIndia → United States~2M/yr · Study ledBrazil → United States~1.9M/yr · Study ledChina → Singapore~1.6M/yr · Skilled & work ledChina → United States~1.5M/yr · Study ledIndia → Singapore~1.5M/yr · Skilled & work ledSouth Korea → United States~1.3M/yr · Study ledIndia → United Kingdom~1.1M/yr · Study ledChina → Australia~963k/yr · Study ledIndia → Canada~787k/yr · Study ledUnited Kingdom → Australia~740k/yr · Working holiday ledPhilippines → United States~721k/yr · Family & partner ledChina → United Kingdom~684k/yr · Study ledPhilippines → Japan~670k/yr · Skilled & work ledVietnam → Japan~665k/yr · Skilled & work ledIndia → Australia~623k/yr · Study ledPakistan → United Arab Emirates~620k/yr · Skilled & work ledFrance → Canada~578k/yr · Skilled & work ledChina → Canada~522k/yr · Study ledMorocco → Spain~487k/yr · Skilled & work ledSouth Africa → United Kingdom~466k/yr · Skilled & work ledMorocco → France~440k/yr · Family & partner ledPhilippines → United Arab Emirates~420k/yr · Skilled & work ledMyanmar → Thailand~410k/yr · Skilled & work ledAlgeria → France~380k/yr · Family & partner ledUkraine → Germany~360k/yr · Humanitarian ledPhilippines → Canada~356k/yr · Skilled & work ledTurkey → Germany~337k/yr · Family & partner ledColombia → Spain~320k/yr · Skilled & work ledVenezuela → United States~312k/yr · Humanitarian ledEgypt → United Arab Emirates~298k/yr · Skilled & work ledNigeria → United States~288k/yr · Study ledBrazil → Portugal~273k/yr · Skilled & work ledVietnam → United States~270k/yr · Family & partner ledNigeria → United Kingdom~265k/yr · Study ledPakistan → United Kingdom~265k/yr · Family & partner ledUnited Kingdom → New Zealand~237k/yr · Working holiday ledPhilippines → Australia~232k/yr · Skilled & work ledBangladesh → United Arab Emirates~217k/yr · Skilled & work ledIndia → Germany~216k/yr · Study ledChina → New Zealand~212k/yr · Study ledVenezuela → Spain~194k/yr · Humanitarian ledNigeria → Canada~176k/yr · Study ledVietnam → Australia~168k/yr · Study ledNepal → Australia~159k/yr · Study ledIndia → New Zealand~147k/yr · Skilled & work ledIndia → Netherlands~138k/yr · Skilled & work ledBangladesh → United Kingdom~128k/yr · Family & partner ledPakistan → Canada~126k/yr · Family & partner ledSyria → Germany~124k/yr · Humanitarian ledIndia → Ireland~119k/yr · Skilled & work ledIran → Canada~104k/yr · Study ledUkraine → United Kingdom~104k/yr · Humanitarian ledSri Lanka → Australia~88k/yr · Study ledPhilippines → New Zealand~83k/yr · Skilled & work ledPoland → Germany~60k/yr · Skilled & work led

Country migration reports

In-depth, cited fact sheets for the world's 20 biggest migration hubs - diaspora size, top destinations and sources, visa-category mix, corridor costs and processing times.

How to read this map

Figures are indicative annual movements - a blend of recent immigration inflows, international-student enrolments and visitor volumes - drawn from UN DESA international migrant-stock data, the OECD International Migration Database and destination-country statistical releases (DHS/USCIS, IRCC, ABS, UK Home Office, Eurostat). They are order-of-magnitude planning numbers to show the shape and direction of movement, not official counts. Every corridor page links to the government source for the visa categories it covers.