1. MigrationSaudi Arabia

   Saudi Arabia: in 2020–2023 net migration was higher than all 12 UN projections assumed

   The 2022 projection, for example, expected that in 2023 29k more people would arrive than leave; by the UN's current estimate, 326k more arrived than left. 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 →

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