1. MigrationPakistan

   Pakistan: in 2020–2023 net migration was lower than all 12 UN projections assumed

   The 2022 projection, for example, expected that in 2023 166k more people would leave than arrive; by the UN's current estimate, 1.62M more left than arrived. Projections 1998–2022 are all checked against the same recent years, so they are not 12 independent tests.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Pakistan now has more people than Russia
• Pakistan: 6.92M natives live abroad, 1.7 times as many as the foreign-born living there
• Pakistan: the share of adults with obesity has overtaken the share going hungry
• Pakistan: more for the army than for education
• Pakistan: more babies are born than in the whole EU
• Pakistan: 325 thousand more people died than usual in 2020–2021; officially 29 thousand died of COVID

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