Written question asked by Matthew Offord (Conservative) on Monday, 12 December 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 14 December 2022. It was answered by Andrew Mitchell (Conservative) on Tuesday, 20 December 2022 on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Africa: Migration

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the level and flows of migration on the African continent.

Answer: The UK Government relies on international data on African migration flows. The United Nations' International Organization for Migration (IOM) World Migration Report 2022 revealed that Africans living in another African country increased from 18 million in 2015 to 21 million in 2020. South Africa settled the most African emigrants (2.9 million), though final destinations are spread widely across Africa. In 2020, East Africa, The Horn and The Great Lakes were the origin of most refugees (5 million). 2 million people were internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1.6 million in Ethiopia and 1.9 million in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.

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