Assessing Transnational Human Mobility on a Global Scale

Abstract In this chapter, we estimate human mobility between countries worldwide on the basis of global statistics tourism and air passenger traffic. Adjusting merging data from these two sources through a simple set procedures enabled us to counter some their individual limitations. The resulting open-access dataset, which covers more than 15 billion estimated trips during years 2011 2016, promises be comprehensive new resource transnational worldwide. illustrate characteristics transformations adopted in creating dataset. We explore potential applications discuss remaining caveats. conclude with several lessons our endeavor that might useful for researchers who wish engage similar data-merging procedures.