SPECIAL EDITION: WORLD on the MOVE : AFRICA
* The International Labor Office estimates that 35 million Africans live outside their own country--10% of sub-Saharan Africa’s total population.
* Most typically African is border migration, where hundreds of thousands of people cross international borders every day without going through any formalities. These are simply the natural movements of people belonging to the same ethnic group.
* There are 400,000 contract migrant workers in South Africa and as many as 1.3 million more undocumented workers in the country.
* The working age population of the continent is forecast to increase from 230 million today to 318 million by the year 2000 and 650 million by 2025.
* As much as 50% of Ivory Coast’s 10.5--million population is foreign born.
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