GENEVA and WASHINGTON, DC — Human mobility has fully rebounded from the sharp downturns seen during the COVID-19 pandemic — demonstrating its resilience and inevitability — and is undergoing significant shifts across world regions, according to a report released today by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Migration Policy Institute (MPI).  

The study marks the first attempt to bring together regional flow monitoring data from IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix to illuminate the scale and characteristics of global movement, both regular and irregular.  

In the report, The State of Global Mobility in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic, MPI analysts sketch how movements have fully recovered from pandemic-era restrictions, as well as how they are being shaped by climate and displacement shocks.