Global Migrants In 2024 List. The current global estimate is that there were around 281 million international migrants in the world in 2020, which equates to 3.6 per cent of the global population. And while that equals just 3.5% of the world’s population, it already surpasses some projections for 2050.

With an estimated 281 million international migrants worldwide, the number of displaced individuals due to conflict, violence, disaster, and other reasons has surged to the highest levels in modern. This year and last have seen historically high levels of forced displacement worldwide according to the un refugee agency’s (unhcr) 2024 flagship global trends report published on thursday in.