Last year was a record for the number of registered worldwide migrants. According to the Agency TASS with reference to the report of the International organization for migration, in 2015, 244 million people lived on the territory of countries outside their homeland.
First place in this category went to the US from 46.6 million visitors. Second place in this list was occupied by Germany (12 million), the third – Russia (11.9 million).
According to IOM, in 2015 it was registered the largest displacement after the Second world war dramatically increased the number of refugees and internally displaced persons in Africa, the middle East, South-East Asia. The number of requests for asylum, between 2014 and the first half of 2015 nearly doubled from 558 thousand to nearly 1 million
The Union of such requests in the past year registered more than 1.2 million, twice as much data 2014. And Germany took the first place in the world in the number of requests from refugees (primarily, Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans) – 442 thousand
