Developing the Global Compact on Migration 2016, para. 17
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The Special Rapporteur would like to stress that, as a percentage of the world population, the number of migrants remains low. Migrants were only 3.3 per cent of the global population in 2015, compared with 2.8 per cent in 2000. In addition, the rate of migration actually slowed in the period from 2010 to 2015, compared with the previous five-year period. Consequently, despite common perceptions, it is not accurate to designate migration as a "crisis".
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants