Four decades of global migration, mapped with deep learning

A new Nature paper reconstructs annual global migration flows from 1990 to 2023 and finds that migration has nearly tripled since 2000

Out today in @Nature our new paper uses deep learning to map four decades of global human migration. By building the first comprehensive dataset of global annual flows (1990-2023), we reveal that migration has nearly tripled since 2000
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