There are 100 million migrants and 20 million refugees in the world today.
Refugees move because they have to.
Some migrants go because they cannot make a living, others because they want a better life and some simply because they have enough money to travel. The number of migrants hosted by other countries continues to rise - a million people move each year, mostly within the Majority World. 2 People moving from rural to urban areas - 80 million migrants live in cities and each year another one and a half million move there. 2 Migrant workers - over 35 million people work overseas. Asian women are the fastest-growing category of foreign workers, increasing by 800,000 each year.