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An elderly Turkish resident holds his tasbih, or prayer beads, in the tea room of the Victor ... / Credits: Reuters

All Roads Lead to Mexico: More Mexicans are leaving America to return home than are migrating north ... / Credits: Reuters

Villagers displaced by floods return to their village in Dadu in Pakistan's Sindh province. Climate ... / Credits: Reuters

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A laborer demolishes an old building at a construction site in Wuhan, capital of central China's ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Chinese now an urban people A generation ago it would have been unthinkable, but for the first time ever, ... more

A migrant tries to cross into the United States from the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez near El Paso, Texas in March 2006.

Cuban migrants trying to reach the U.S. coast in Florida ride on a truck, converted into a marine vessel with air-filled drums and a propeller for propulsion.

Tajik migrant workers resting outside Moscow.

An Indian border security guard and a girl goat herder

Women in Turkish dress in Munich

Andrzej looks at the timetable at an international bus station in Bialystok, eastern Poland in August 2006.

An immigrant crawls after his arrival on a makeshift boat on the Gran Tarajal beach in Spain's Canary Islands in May 2006.

Foreign workers on a construction site in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) in November 2006.

Migrant workers from China's Hebei Province rest near a wall beside the Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

An internally displaced person (IDP), this Sudanese woman carries empty containers to be filled with water at Abu Shouk Camp.

Iraqi migrant Ahlam al-Jibouri and her children eat a meal during a power outage in their home in a slum of Damascus, Syria, in January 2007.

Afghan refugees in western Pakistan prepare to leave a refugee camp on their way back to their home country in September 2005.

A girl displaced by Colombian violence in Barranquilla in May 2005.

Demography Migration hotspots worldwide The global migrant population, if it was a nation, would be the fifth largest in the ... more

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The Mukuru slums in Nairobi, Kenya after a fire tore through and destroyed the tin and wooden homes ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Tackling the challenges of urban migration Each year, millions move from the countryside into cities, making urban poverty ... more

Hindu devotees try to board a crowded passenger train to take part in the "Guru Purnima" festival ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography India's massive migration crisis K. Laxmi Narayan, an expert in Indian urbanization, warns that both Indian ... more

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Spectators cheer during Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York. The annual parade recognizes the ... / Credits: Reuters

In Bejing, Chinese migrants built small industrial workshops to make garments or textiles on land ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Interview Population migration in a new China Tens of millions have migrated from the Chinese countryside to the cities. ... more

A young German girl hammers the Berlin Wall in November 19, 1989. Since then, more than 1.5 million ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography New realities: East-West migration in Germany Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, around 1.6 million people have left eastern ... more

A Palestinian carries empty canisters / Credits: Reuters

Demography Does population migration create water conflicts? The specter of water wars is often raised as a potential result of water ... more

A graduating female Marine among other male graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy ceremony in ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Interview Lessons from apartheid Allianz Board member Clem Booth talks about diversity in his home country South ... more

A woman (2ndR) from the French Office of Immigration and Integration (OFII) speaks with a Roma ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Interview Rapid changes in French immigration policy Migration researcher Virginie Guiraudon says French immigration policy has gone ... more

A street market in Lagos, the Nigerian "megacity" that grows by around 275,000 people each year / Credits: Reuters

Demography The future is urbanization The majority of people on Earth now live in cities and towns. How we cope with ... more

allianz knowledge on demography: A woman sells fish at a street market in Lagos

allianz knowledge on demography: A vendor sorts vegetables next to a railway track as a train passes by, in Dhaka

allianz knowledge on demography: Visitors stand in front of a portrait of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen September 5, 2010

allianz knowledge on demography: Students attend a rooftop evening class in a private school in a slum area in Karachi

allianz knowledge on demography: Indian soldiers march past the historic Red Fort during the full-dress rehearsal for India's Independence Day celebrations in Delhi August 13, 2012.

Allianz knwoledge on demography: Vehicles drive on Jianwai Avenue in Beijing in this August 4, 2010 file photo.

allianz knowledge on demography: Migrant workers chat at their temporary house near a construction site in Guangzhou

allianz knowledge on demography: a lighting bolt strike the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai

allianz knowledge on demography: an e-jeepney drives in Manila

allianz knowledge on demography: Mumbai railway station.

allianz knowledge on demography: worshippers at the blue mosque in Istanbul

allianz knowledge on demography: a night view of mosques in Cairo

Demography The world's fastest growing megacities The most rapidly expanding cities with populations of over 10 million people, according ... more