I am a statistical demographer working predominantly with migration data to better predict past and future movement patterns and gain a richer understanding of how migration varies by core demographic variables such as age, sex and education. Prior to joining the HKU Department of Sociology, I was a professor at the Asian Demographic Research Institute based at Shanghai University and a researcher at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. I have also worked as a consultant...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 912
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4893-5687
Twitter https://twitter.com/guyabelguyabel

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • University of Hong Kong

    University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    Professor

  • International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

    Research Institute, Laxenburg, Austria
    Researcher

  • International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

    Research Institute, Laxenburg, Austria
    Researcher

Research

Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide

Authors Roman Hoffmann, Guy Abel, Maurizio Malpede, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Nature Climate Change
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1 Journal Article

The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century

Authors Amina Maharjan, Angel del Valle, Annabel Erulkar, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name International Migration Review
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2 Journal Article

Integrating Traditional and Social Media Data to Predict Bilateral Migrant Stocks in the European Union

Authors Dilek Yildiz, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Guy J. Abel, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name International Migration Review
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3 Journal Article

International Migration and Development: The Changing Impact of Migration on Redistributing Global Population

Authors Elin Charles-Edwards, Aude Bernard, Francisco Rowe, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name International Migration Review
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4 Journal Article

Investigating the distribution of university alumni populations within South Korea and Taiwan based on data from the LinkedIn advertising platform

Authors Nayoung Heo, Nayoung Heo, Hsin-Chieh Chang, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Cities
Citations (WoS) 2
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5 Journal Article

The development of internal migration flow patterns in Japan

Authors Kaoru Kakinuma, Guy J. Abel
Year 2022
Journal Name Regional Studies, Regional Science
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6 Journal Article

Closing disparities between European sending and receiving international migration flow data

Authors Guy J. Abel, Dilek Yildiz
Year 2022
Journal Name Regional Studies, Regional Science
7 Journal Article

Brain Circulation: The Educational Profile of Return Migrants

Authors Chen Chen, Aude Bernard, Ryan Rylee, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Population Research and Policy Review
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8 Journal Article

The form and evolution of international migration networks, 1990–2015

Authors Guy J. Abel, Jack DeWaard, Jasmine Trang Ha, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
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9 Journal Article

Analyzing the Effect of Time in Migration Measurement Using Georeferenced Digital Trace Data

Authors Lee Fiorio, Emilio Zagheni, Guy Abel, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Demography
Citations (WoS) 18
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10 Journal Article

Geographic transformation of China's internal population migration from 1995 to 2015: Insights from the migration centerline

Authors Wei Qi, Guy J. Abel, Shenghe Liu
Year 2021
Journal Name Applied Geography
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11 Journal Article

Commentary: Recent progress and future directions for research related to migration and conflict

Authors Raya Muttarak, Guy J. Abel, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Global Environmental Change
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12 Journal Article

International remittance flows and the economic and social consequences of COVID-19

Authors Guy J. Abel, Stuart Gietel-Basten
Year 2020
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
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13 Journal Article

Driving factors of Asian international migration flows

Authors Guy J. Abel, James Raymer, Qing Guan
Year 2019
Journal Name Asian Population Studies
14 Journal Article

Bilateral international migration flow estimates for 200 countries

Authors Guy J. Abel, Joel E. Cohen
Year 2019
Journal Name Scientific Data
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15 Journal Article

Bowling Together: Scientific Collaboration Networks of Demographers at European Population Conferences

Authors Guy J. Abel, Raya Muttarak, Valeria Bordone, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name European Journal of Population
16 Journal Article

Climate, conflict and forced migration

Authors Guy J. Abel, Michael Brottrager, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Global Environmental Change
Citations (WoS) 1
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17 Journal Article

Internal migration in Brazil using circular visualization

Authors Emerson Augusto Baptista, Guy J. Abel, Járvis Campos
Year 2018
Journal Name Regional Studies, Regional Science
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18 Journal Article

Estimates of Global Bilateral Migration Flows by Gender between 1960 and 20151

Authors Guy J. Abel
Year 2018
Journal Name International Migration Review
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19 Journal Article

Estimates of Global Bilateral Migration Flows by Gender between 1960 and 20151

Authors Guy J. Abel
Year 2018
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 7
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20 Journal Article

Non-zero trajectories for long-run net migration assumptions in global population projection models

Authors Guy Abel
Year 2018
Journal Name Demographic Research
Citations (WoS) 1
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21 Journal Article

Changing internal migration flows patterns in South Korea

Authors Guy J. Abel, Nayoung Heo
Year 2018
Journal Name Regional Studies, Regional Science
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22 Journal Article

Subnational gender balances in South Korea

Authors Guy J Abel, Nayoung Heo
Year 2018
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
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23 Journal Article

Circular visualization of China’s internal migration flows 2010–2015

Authors Wei Qi, Guy J Abel, Raya Muttarak, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Citations (WoS) 4
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24 Journal Article

Using Twitter Data to Estimate the Relationships between Short-term Mobility and Long-term Migration

Authors Lee Fiorio, Guy Abel, Jixuan Cai, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE (WEBSCI '17)
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25 Journal Article

Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals leads to lower world population growth

Authors Guy J. Abel, Bilal Barakat, Samir KC, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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26 Journal Article

Quantifying Global International Migration Flows

Authors Guy J. Abel
Year 2014
Journal Name Science
Citations (WoS) 141
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27 Journal Article

The Future of International Migration

Authors Nikola Sander, Guy J. Abel, Fernando Riosmena
Year 2014
Book Title World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century
28 Book Chapter

Integrating uncertainty in time series population forecasts: An illustration using a simple projection model

Authors Guy J. Abel, James Raymer, Peter W.F. Smith, ...
Year 2013
Journal Name Demographic Research
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29 Journal Article

Forecasting environmental migration to the United Kingdom: an exploration using Bayesian models

Authors Guy Abel, David McCollum, Allan Findlay, ...
Year 2013
Journal Name Population and Environment
Citations (WoS) 7
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30 Journal Article

Estimating global migration flow tables using place of birth data

Authors Guy J. Abel
Year 2013
Journal Name Demographic Research
Citations (WoS) 37
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31 Journal Article

Does Specification Matter? Experiments with Simple Multiregional Probabilistic Population Projections

Authors James Raymer, Guy J Abel, Andrei Rogers
Year 2012
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
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32 Journal Article

A comparison of official population projections with Bayesian time series forecasts for England and Wales

Authors Guy J Abel, Jakub Bijak, James Raymer
Year 2010
Journal Name Population Trends
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33 Journal Article

Estimation of international migration flow tables in Europe

Authors Guy J. Abel
Year 2010
Journal Name Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
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34 Journal Article

Combining census and registration data to estimate detailed elderly migration flows in England and Wales

Authors James Raymer, Guy Abel, Peter W. F. Smith
Year 2007
Journal Name Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
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35 Journal Article

Global Migration Flows

Description
Global flow of people. Estimates for bilateral global migration flows between all countries in the world. Guy J. Abel and Nikola Sander (2014). Quantifying Global International Migration Flows. Science, 343 (6178). The bilateral flows between 196 countries are estimated from sequential stock tables. They are comparable across countries and capture the number of people who changed their country of residence over five-year periods. The estimates reflect migration transitions and thus cannot be compared to annual movements flow data published by United Nations and Eurostat. Global Migration Data Sheet: 1990 - 2010 Demographic changes from births, deaths and refugee movements are included in the estimates.
Year 1990
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36 Data Set

Exploring Chinese human capital flight using university alumni data

Authors Guy J. Abel, XiaoXia Zhu, Ziyue Huang
Year 2023
Journal Name Asian Population Studies
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37 Journal Article

World’s human migration patterns in 2000–2019 unveiled by high-resolution data

Authors Venla Niva, Alexander Horton, Vili Virkki, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Nature Human Behaviour
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38 Journal Article

Modeling climate migration: dead ends and new avenues

Authors Robert M. Beyer, Jacob Schewe, Guy J. Abel
Year 2023
Journal Name Frontiers in Climate
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39 Journal Article

Bilateral international migration flow estimates updated and refined by sex

Authors Guy J. Abel, Joel E. Cohen
Year 2022
Journal Name Scientific Data
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40 Journal Article

Data, Design, and Deep Domain Knowledge: Science-Policy Collaboration to Combat Misinformation on Migration and Migrants

Authors Marie McAuliffe, Guy Abel, Adrian Kitimbo, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Harvard Data Science Review
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41 Journal Article

Climate Vulnerability and Human Migration in Global Perspective

Authors Martina Grecequet, Jack DeWaard, Jessica J. Hellmann, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Sustainability
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42 Journal Article

Suggested Research

Migration stocks and flows: data concepts, availability and comparability

Authors Dilek Yildiz, Guy Abel
Year 2021
Book Title Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology
1 Book Chapter

Erratum to: Forecasting environmental migration to the United Kingdom: an exploration using Bayesian models

Authors Guy Abel, Jakub Bijak, Allan Findlay, ...
Year 2013
Journal Name Population and Environment
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2 Journal Article

A multidimensional global migration model for use in cohort-component population projections

Authors Lucas Kluge, Orlando Olaya-Bucaro, Samir KC, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Demographic Research
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3 Journal Article
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