Appendix A

Please note that this table reflects the UN DESA geographic regions and subregions and does not imply official endorsement or acceptance by IOM.

^a Eastern Africa has been combined with the Southern Africa subregion in this chapter, although the countries, territories and areas remain the same.
^b This subregion has been renamed “Central Africa” in this chapter and combined with Western Africa.
^c This subregion has been renamed “North Africa”.
^d This subregion has been combined with Eastern Africa.
^e This subregion has been renamed “West Africa” and combined with Central Africa (UN DESA Middle Africa) in this chapter.

^f This region has been renamed “South-East Asia”.
^g This subregion has been renamed “Middle East”.

^h Some countries in this subregion, particularly members of the European Union, may have been included both in the discussion of South-Eastern and Eastern Europe, as well as the subregional discussion on Northern, Western and Southern Europe within the chapter.
ⁱ Northern, Western and Southern Europe are combined in the chapter, excluding the following countries in Southern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and North Macedonia, which have been included in South-Eastern Europe in the chapter, under the subregion South-Eastern and Eastern Europe.

^j The subregion “Central America” has been combined with Mexico and the Caribbean in this chapter.

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Notes: For methodology as well as explanatory notes, see UN DESA, 2020.
ⁱ Subregions utilized within the chapter may differ from those utilized by UN DESA Statistical Division either by name, or by countries, territories and areas included within.
ⁱⁱ “The names of countries or areas refer to their short form used in day-to-day operations of the United Nations and not necessarily to their official name as used in formal documents. These names are based on the United Nations Terminology Database (UNTERM), which can be found at https://unterm.un.org/UNTERM/portal/welcome. The designations employed and the presentation of material at this site do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations [or the International Organization for Migration (IOM)] concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries” (UN DESA, n.d.).
ⁱⁱⁱ The entities included in this table, which the previous chapter draws upon, comprise countries, as well as territories,areas and special administrative regions. Please note that this table is not intended to be fully comprehensive.