Ethiopia — Flow Monitoring Dashboard 37 (October 2022)

In October 2022, a total of 29,972 movements were observed across five of Ethiopia's flow monitoring points (FMPs). This represents only a 0.01% increase in daily average movements in comparison with September 2022 when an average of 967 movements per day were observed.

Outgoing movements during October have continued to be higher (82.2%) than incoming movements (17.8%). A total of 24,628 outgoing movements were observed of which 9,142 (37.1%) were heading towards Saudi Arabia, 3,173 (12.9%) were going to Djibouti, 2,802 (11.4%) were travelling towards Kenya, 1,554 (6.3%) headed to Somalia, 1,365 (5.5%) to Sudan and 1,142 (4.6%) intended to reach the United Arab Emirates while remaining movements were travelling to several Middle Eastern, Southern Africa, European and North American countries.

At the same time, 5,344 incoming movements were observed, of which 1,917 (35.9%) had originated from Sudan, while 1,618 (30.3%) came from Djibouti, 1,142 (21.4%) from Kenya, 540 (10.1%) movements from Somalia, 119 (2.2%) from Yemen and the remaining from United Republic of Tanzania, and the Netherlands. Almost all of these were Ethiopian nationals who were likely returning home.