Updated 23/06/2022

New vocabulary
● A equates to B
● Account for / be responsible for
● This is a “historic freezing point”, indicating that expectations for land investment are poor,

INTRO

The map is based on the available data on the World Population Policies database on UN DESA website and depicts
the policy stance of the world on international migration as of 2015.

Figure 5 highlights the new as well as traditional targets

Given is the chart (gerund)...

TRENDS

● This rise decelerates around 80% by May

● to be record high
● in crease with minor fluctuations to …
● Experience a downtick from .. in “year” to its all-time low of … in “year”
● Witness several minor/major fluctuations
● To be erratic throughout the surveyed years
● Such incidents have led to the death toll from selfie-related incidents reaching double figures for the
first time in 2015, overtaking the number of victims of shark attacks.
● Approximately one in five international migrants is estimated to live in the world’s top 20 “global cities”

● The level of internal migration in these countries is also increasing

● International migrants account for a relatively small share of the world’s total population (about 3.3% in
2015).
● Of the 244 million international migrants recorded in 2015, 58% stay in developed nations, with 85
million originating from a developing nation.

Note: of preposition (RELATING TO)

● In the past 25 years, countries in Asia, Europe and North America recorded the largest gains in the number
of international migrants, adding roughly 27 million each, or nearly 1.1 million additional migrants per
year.
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● The United States has the most immigrants, or 19% of the world’s total. Germany and Russia
follow with a combined share of 9.7%

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 ● In fact, most (59%) of the 177 million international migrants of working age reside in developed nations.
Further, nearly 75% of international migrants are between 20 and 64, and 15% are under 20 years of age.
Over 30 million are aged 65 or older

COMPARISONS

So sánh gấp nhiều lần:

S + V + multiple numbers + as + much/ many/ adj + (N) + as + N/ pronoun

* Multiple numbers là những số như half/ twice/ 3,4,5...times; Phân số; Phần trăm.

Ex: In many countries in the world with the same job, women only get 40 - 50% as much salary as men.

In 2015, Asia-to-Asia was the largest regional migration corridor, with 59 million migrants born in another Asian
country, followed by 40 million migrants in the Europe-to-Europe corridor and 25 million migrants in the Latin
America and the Caribbean-to- North America corridor.

Three-in-five (60%) think government housing policies have had a negative impact on housing, as opposed to 4%

who think the impact was positive. Next is immigration (53% to 5%), the Covid-19 pandemic (47% to 5%) and
Brexit (29% to 6%).

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