Table 7.

Summary statistics for bilateral migration flows over five-year periods between 1990 and 2015 based on six flow estimation methods. All numbers except the Proportion Zero are in units of individuals per five years. N is the number of migration corridors modelled: 200 countries of origin × 200 countries of destination × 5 quinquennial intervals.

	Stock Difference Drop Negative	Stock Difference Reverse Negative	Migration Rates	Demographic Accounting Minimisation Open	Demographic Accounting Minimisation Closed	Demographic Accounting Pseudo Bayesian Closed
N	200,000	200,000	200,000	200,000	200,000	200,000
Minimum	0	0	0	0	0	0
Median	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mean	675	883	1,326	853	976	1,928
Maximum	2,763,183	2,763,183	3,492,367	2,865,526	2,899,536	3,918,816
Std. Dev.	15,322	17,770	22,710	17,470	16,926	25,492
Proportion Zero	0.82	0.79	0.76	0.72	0.7	0.53
Mean (non-zero)	3,788	4,112	5,513	3,025	3,206	4,096
Std. Dev. (non-zero)	36140	38167	46061	32801	30564	37039