Migration Governance Indicators Data on the Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean
The 2024 Regional Review in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) provides Member States and stakeholders an opportunity to assess their progress in implementing the objectives and principles of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
This publication provides insights into how Member States from the LAC region are implementing each of the 23 Global Compact objectives, serving as a benchmark for policy discussions at the Intergovernmental Conference in Santiago de Chile, in March 2025. Drawing on data from the Migration Governance Indicators (MGIs) – IOM’s flagship initiative on migration governance – this regional policy brief highlights key trends in migration governance across 28 countries that are members of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
The analysis compares these trends to global benchmarks, breaks them down at the subregional level, highlights possible policy responses and illustrates how LAC countries have implemented these in different contexts through more than 50 selected examples.
The MGI programme stands out as a unique data source for this review due to its alignment with these international frameworks: The MGI methodology is grounded in target 10.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and there is a direct correspondence between the MGI indicators and the 23 objectives of the Global Compact for Migration.