Co-Development Policies in Europe: Objectives, Experiences and Limits

Summary:

With the New Millennium, migration flows have reached a world scale. The global migrant population is about 200 million in the world, counting for 3% of the world population. The phenomenon has gone through a rapid growth in these last twenty years: 75 million in 1965, 150 million in 1990, 191 million in 2005, 200 million today. 61% of migrants live in developed countries, with 28 countries welcoming 75% of migrants in the world – half of them in Europe and the United States. Among the migrants living in developed countries, 54% come from developing countries. Finally, 80% of migrants who live in developing countries are originating from other developing countries. In 2030, the world will have 8 billion inhabitants. With two billions inhabitants, the population of Africa will be more important than the population of India and China, which themselves will represent one third of the humanity.

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