The Economist‘s The World in 2020 | 11/21/2019
Migrants in 2020 will end up in poorer places
IN 2015 A RECORD number of migrants, hoping to escape violence and poverty, entered Europe illegally. Five years on, the picture will look very different. It is impossible to know how many people will migrate in 2020, but easier to predict where they will end up. America, Australia and EU countries have beefed up their borders, so relatively few would-be migrants will be accepted compared with the numbers wanting to come. Instead, countries around the edges of the rich world (such as Egypt and Turkey), and ones farther away (such as Bangladesh and Colombia), have been taking in more.
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Naomi Cohen | journalist 