Top 10 international migration corridors World Migration Report 2026 India-UAE and India-US among world’s largest
3 min readNew DelhiMay 9, 2026 06:42 PM IST Top 10 international migration corridors: According to the World Migration Report 2026 released by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on May 5, nearly 304 million people were living outside their country of birth by mid-2024. The report noted that international migrants made up 3.7 per cent of the world’s population in 2024, a small rise from 2.9 per cent in 1990. The largest migration route globally continues to be from Mexico to the United States, with around 11 million people. This is followed by migration from Afghanistan to Iran with over 3.7 million migrants, and from Syria to Türkiye with more than 3.5 million people, most of them displaced by the Syrian civil war. The migration corridor between Russia and Ukraine ranked fourth globally. The report also placed the India-United Arab Emirates and India-United States routes among the world’s top 10 migration corridors in 2024. The India-UAE corridor ranked fifth and is largely made up of migrant workers. More than eight million migrants were living …

