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The Countries That Decided to Just Let You In
Why Seychelles, the Maldives, and Georgia keep entry friction as low as possible. And what that strategy actually achieves.
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Practical guides for international calling
Route pricing, dialing conventions, and the operational details that matter before you call a real number abroad.
Why it works6 min read
The Gulf, Europe, and Asia Keep Building the World’s Biggest Travel Hubs. Here’s Why.
Why the Gulf, Western Europe, and Asia keep generating the world’s biggest hub cities. And why other regions cannot easily catch up.
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Why 18.5 Million Indians Work Overseas (and What Keeps the Pipeline Running)
Why India, Mexico, the Philippines, and Bangladesh keep sending millions of workers overseas. And why those flows become self-reinforcing.
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50.6 Million Immigrants Live in One Country. The Rest of the Top 5 Might Surprise You.
Why the United States, Germany, and Saudi Arabia top the immigrant rankings. For completely different reasons.
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Why it works6 min read
One Passport Opens 195 Doors. Another Opens 26. Here’s Why.
Why Singapore opens 195 doors, Japan opens 193, and Afghanistan opens 26. And what passport rankings actually measure.
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The US Earns $176 Billion a Year From Visitors. Spain Earns $92 Billion. Here’s What Separates Earning From Counting.
Why the United States earns more from visitors than any other country. And what separates a high-spend destination from a high-arrival one.
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Why it works6 min read
88% of the UAE Was Born Somewhere Else. Here’s How That Happens.
Why the UAE, Qatar, and Luxembourg have foreign-born populations above 50%. And what that actually means for the people who live there.
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Ranking6 min read
Bangkok Gets 32 Million International Visitors a Year. Here’s Why.
Why Bangkok, Istanbul, and London keep topping international visitor rankings. And what monuments have to do with it (less than you think).
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Why it works6 min read
Dubai Handles 92 Million Passengers a Year. Here’s How an Airport Becomes a Global Hub.
Why Dubai, London Heathrow, and Istanbul became the airports the world routes through. While others remain busy but locally bounded.
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Ranking6 min read
Why a Million Students a Year Pick the Same Country (and What They’re Really Buying)
Why the United States, the UK, and Canada keep dominating student destination rankings. And why that tells you more about migration than about education.
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Ranking6 min read
$685 Billion Sent Home Every Year. Here’s Where It Goes.
Why India, Mexico, and the Philippines dominate remittance rankings. And why the raw numbers can be misleading.
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Ranking6 min read
Some Countries Don't Just Like Tourists. They Need Them to Survive.
Why the countries most dependent on tourism are not the ones with the most famous beaches. They are the ones where visitor spending holds the whole system together.
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Explainer7 min read
The Borders That Move More People Than Most Airports
Why 350,000 people cross one bridge every day, while some international borders see almost no one.
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Ranking6 min read
The Countries Betting Their Future on Sending Kids Overseas
Why China, India, and Vietnam top the list of countries sending students overseas. And what those numbers reveal about ambition, inequality, and migration.
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Ranking6 min read
The Countries That Would Collapse If the Outside World Looked Away
Why Tajikistan, the Maldives, and Tonga are among the countries most vulnerable to what happens in someone else’s economy.
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Ranking6 min read
The Countries Whose Families Stretch Across the Entire Planet
Why India, Mexico, and China top the list of countries with the most people living abroad. And what those numbers actually represent.
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Why it works6 min read
Why Are Small Countries Often So Global?
Why Singapore, Tonga, and the Maldives feel more internationally connected than countries fifty times their size.
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Why it works6 min read
Why Some Countries Feel Easy From the Moment You Land (and Others Feel Impossible)
Why some countries feel frictionless from the moment you land while others exhaust you before you have even cleared immigration.
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Explainer6 min read
Why You Keep Connecting Through the Same Five Cities
Why Dubai, Istanbul, London, and Singapore keep appearing in your flight itinerary whether you planned to visit them or not.
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Why it works6 min read
Why You’re Always on the Same Flight Path as Everyone Else
Why Seoul–Jeju, Melbourne–Sydney, and the same handful of corridors keep dominating air traffic rankings year after year.
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Data explainer6 min read
Follow the Money Home
How the geography of money sent home reveals which countries are truly connected by obligation, not just opportunity.
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Data explainer7 min read
Seven Cities Run the World. The Other 10,000 Watch.
Why a tiny number of cities keep acting as the world's sorting rooms for people, flights, money, and ambition.
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Data explainer7 min read
Some Countries Are a Holiday, a Job Market, and a Family Obligation All at Once
Why the countries that combine tourism, migration, and remittance flows in one place tell you more about modern life than single-metric rankings ever could.
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Feature7 min read
The Busiest International Relationships Have Nothing to Do With GDP
Why the most intense cross-border relationships depend on corridors and family networks, not headline GDP comparisons.
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Data explainer6 min read
The Countries That Would Notice Tomorrow If the Money Stopped Coming
Why the countries most exposed to remittance disruption are not the ones that receive the most money. They're the ones where that money is the economy.
Read articleApril 11, 2026
Data explainer6 min read
Travel Came Back. But Not to the Same Map
How the post-pandemic travel rebound changed which regions matter most. And which got left behind.
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Feature7 min read
Why Everyone Uses the Same Roads Out
Why migration, study abroad, and family life keep flowing through the same handful of international pathways.
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Data explainer6 min read
Why the Smallest Countries Often Feel Like the Most International Places on Earth
Why the smallest countries on the map often have the deepest connections to the rest of the world.
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Feature7 min read
You Can Feel It the Moment You Land. Here's What Creates That Feeling.
What separates a city that feels genuinely global from one that just has an international airport. And why the difference matters.
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Data explainer6 min read
Your Passport Is Probably the Most Powerful Thing You Never Think About
Why the gap between passport tiers is one of the most underrated inequalities in modern life. And why it affects far more than vacations.
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Travel and operations5 min read
1.4 Billion Trips. A Lot of Phone Calls Nobody Planned.
Why 1.4 billion international trips in 2024 still generated millions of unplanned phone calls to hotels, embassies, and local operators.
Read articleApril 10, 2026
Research note6 min read
Follow the Money Home and You'll Find the Phone Calls
Why the countries that receive the most remittances also generate the most urgent, unglamorous international phone calls.
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Corridor strategy6 min read
Some Phone Routes Never Go Quiet. Here's Why.
Why mixed-use corridors. Where diaspora calls, travel support, and institutional contact all overlap. Stay busier than single-purpose routes.
Read articleApril 10, 2026
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