1. MigrationSwitzerland

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

   The 2022 projection, for example, expected that in 2023 40k more people would arrive than leave; by the UN's current estimate, 45.1k 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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• Switzerland: women outlive men but have 4.2 fewer healthy years
• Switzerland and Italy: 19% and 65% of adults read no book in a year; adult literacy scores 266 and 246
• Sweden and South Korea: 93% and 84% online in 2012, maths at age 15 by 2018 +24 and −28 points
• Pledges to resettle refugees in five countries and the EU: 25% to 126% of the promised number by the deadline
• Korea files 5.6 thousand patent applications a year per million people, 3.7 times the US rate
• Switzerland: almost every second baby has a mother born abroad

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