Migration - Intelpoint

Egypt has been the lead source of African scholars in the US in the last 24 years.
Of the African scholars in the US as of the 2023/24 academic session, 20% were Egyptians.
The country remains a pivotal actor in building transcontinental academic bridges and contributing to global knowledge exchange.
Egypt’s visibility in the US scholarly ecosystem reinforces its role as a regional academic hub.

446 Ghanaian scholars are in the US as of the 2023/24 academic session, making up 9.5% of the total number of African scholars in the US.
In the 2000/01 academic session, Ghana was the 7th leading source of African scholars with only 75 Ghanaian scholars in the US.
Nearly 1 in African scholars in the US is a Ghanaian.
Ghana scholarly population in the US have grown by 497%.

Nigeria has been the second leading source of African scholars in the US since 2008/09 to 2023/24, after overtaking South Africa.
By the 2023/24 academic session, the number of Nigerian scholars in the US reached 931.
Given past trends, it’s not unrealistic to predict that Nigeria could surpass Egypt in the near future, just as it did South Africa.
Approximately 20% of the African scholars in the US are Nigerians.

China continued to lead globally with the highest number of international scholars in the US, with almost 21% of the international scholars as of 2023/2024.
China has been the lead country with the highest number of scholars in the US globally in the last 24 years.
India is next after China, with 17,735 scholars in US who hailed from India making up 15.8% of the population.
Only 1% of the scholars in the US are from Nigeria

Gabon leads with 18.7% of its population being immigrants, the highest in Africa.
Equatorial Guinea follows with 16.4%, also driven by oil-related labor demand.
Djibouti (12.1%) and Libya (12.0%) round out the top four with migrant shares over 10%.
South Africa has the highest immigrant population in Southern Africa at 4.8%.
Most African nations still record under 5% immigrant share, indicating modest migration levels continent-wide.

The United Arab Emirates tops the list with immigrants making up 88% of its total population.
Qatar follows closely with 87% of its residents being immigrants.
Kuwait (73%) and Bahrain (55%) also feature prominently, showing a regional trend where nationals are a minority and foreign workers form the economic backbone
Middle Eastern dominance in the top rankings highlights how the Gulf region’s economic model is heavily dependent on imported labor and expatriate populations.

Nigerians submitted 1.1 million Schengen visa applications between 2009 and 2024.
The highest rejection rates occurred in 2017 (53%) and 2019 (51%).
A total of 491,844 applications were rejected, a cumulative denial rate of 42.1%.
Despite post-pandemic recovery, 2024 recorded the highest applications (111k), with a 45% rejection rate.
The year 2010 stands out as the period with the least number of Schengen visa applications submitted by the Nigerian consulate.

Comoros leads with a striking 62.8% rejection rate, the highest not just among African consulates, but also the global consulate countries
Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Nigeria follow with rejection shares between 45% and 47%.
Despite having one of the highest total visa rejections globally, Algeria does not appear in this chart, as its rejection share is comparatively lower.
Countries with smaller applicant pools tend to have higher rejection rates, shedding light on access disparities and approval scrutiny in consulate processes.

Algeria recorded the highest number of Schengen visa denials in 2024, with 185,101 applications not issued, representing 35.0% of its total requests.
Six countries out of the top 15 global consulate countries with the highest visa denials were from Africa -Morocco, Nigeria, Egypt, Senegal, Tunisia, and Algeria.
Nigeria, Senegal, and Pakistan showed alarmingly high rejection rates, each with over 45% of visa applications refused.
Collectively, over 1.7 million Schengen visa applications were not issued worldwide in 2024.
European consulates located in African and Asian countries made up a significant share of the rejections.

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