Number of outgoing Venezuelans on the rise

Venezuelans are leaving. In 2005-2010, the number of Venezuelan residents abroad climbed from 378,000 to 521,000. Data appeared in "Emigration from Venezuela in the last decade," a paper authored by Anitza Freitez, Ph. D. of Demography and the headmistress of the Economic and Social Research Institute, Andrés Bello Catholic University (IIES-UCAB). Freitez arrived at this number in reviewing the estimates of the United Nations Population Division and the World Bank.  "In Venezuela, there is no access to national statistical sources that allow making some approach of the quantification of international emigration of people born in Venezuela," said the scholar. She resorted to varied international sources in order to write the paper covering data through 2010. More....