Sole 24 Ore : In the last report on migrants, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) pointed out that Italy has once again became part of list of the world leaders in terms of the country of origin of migrants.
According to the OECD, Italy is eighth in the world ranking of the countries of origin of new immigrants. In the first place there is China, in front of Syria, Romania, Poland and India. Italy is just after Mexico and in front of Vietnam and Afghanistan, with an increase of migrants from the average of 87 thousand in the decade 2005-14 to 154 thousand in 2014 and to 171 thousand in 2015, equal to 2.5% of the influxes in the OECD .
The Dossier Statistico Immigrazione for 2017 based on a study by the study and research Center ‘Idos e Confronti’ states that today the rate of Italians emigrating from the country is similar to that in the immediate post-war period. In number, over 250,000 a year.
More and more young people with a higher level of education are emigrating. Among the Italians with more than 25 years of age, registered in 2002 for foreign countries, 51% had a middle school diploma, 37.1% a diploma and 11.9% a university degree, but in 2013 the ISTAT has found a radical change in the levels of education among the people leaving: 34.6% with the middle school, 34.8% with the diploma and 30.0% with the degree, so it can be estimated that 2016, out of 114,000 Italian immigrants, there are 39,000 graduates and 34,000 graduates.
The most common European destinations are Germany and Great Britain; then, to follow, Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland (in Europe where about three quarters of the outputs are addressed) while, overseas, Argentina, Brazil, Canada , the United States and Venezuela.
