Editing Demographics of Eritrea (section)

===Migration===
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|caption=Eritrean migration (immigrants minus emigrants; [[United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs|UN DESA]] Revisions 2010 to 2019). ''Negative'' numbers indicate more ''emigration'' than immigration; ''positive'' numbers indicate more ''immigration''. Sources: [[United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs]] (UN DESA) Population Division: (Revisions 2012<ref name="UNDESA2012_MIGR_NET_NUMBERS" /> and 2017 are almost identical to Revisions 2010 and 2015, respectively.<ref name="UNDESA2017_MIGR_NET_NUMBERS" />)
* Revision 2010<ref name="UNDESA2010_MIGR_NET_NUMBERS" />
* Revision 2015<ref name="UNDESA2015_MIGR_NET_NUMBERS" />
* Revision 2019<ref name="UNDESA2019_MIGR_NET_NUMBERS" />
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In 2015, there was a major outflow of emigrants from Eritrea. ''[[The Guardian]]'' attributed the emigration to Eritrea being "a totalitarian state where most citizens fear arrest at any moment and dare not speak to their neighbours, gather in groups or linger long outside their homes", with a major factor being the conditions and long durations of [[Eritrean Army#National service|conscription in the Eritrean Army]].<ref name="Guardian_not_at_war_fled" /> At the end of 2018, the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] (UNHCR) estimated that about 507,300 Eritreans were refugees who had fled Eritrea.<ref name="HRW_ER_2019" /> Factors corresponding to emigration include the "lack of political, religious and social freedom", economic reasons and indefinite military service. Young people choosing to flee Eritrea often keep their plans secret from their families in order to decrease their families' stress and risk of being fined or imprisoned. Payment to people smugglers is typically made when a refugee arrives in Libya and provides the smugglers with a telephone number of a diaspora contact who is expected to pay.<ref name="Conversation_ER_why_emigrate" /> Several refugees given educational opportunities while residing in refugee camps in Ethiopia felt that they lacked long-term life opportunities beyond obtaining academic degrees, motivating them to attempt further emigration to Europe.<ref name="Conversation_ER_why_risky_migration" />

During the first four half decades of the twenty-first century, [[United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs|UN DESA]] Population Division, in its ''2019 Revision'' of ''World Population Prospects'', estimated that Eritrea had 227 thousand more immigrants than emigrants during 2000–2005 (more people arrived than left), and had net outflows afterwards, with 80 thousand net emigrants during 2005–2010, 246 thousand during 2010–2015 and 199 thousand during 2015–2020.<ref name="UNDESA_migration_worldwide_2019" /> 
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