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Per capita basis, I believe EU countries take on more immigrants than America

by dmode 8y ago

ameister14 8y ago
I thought that was interesting, so I just checked - the EU as a whole has about 52.5 million people living in countries they were not born in (including other EU countries) and a total population of about 512 million. So that's about 10%. The US has about 44.5 million foreign born in it, with a total population of about 328 million. So that's about 13.5%. So no, the EU does not have more immigrants than the US per capita. If you remove European citizens moving to other European countries, they don't have as many immigrants by sheer number, either.
- dmode 8y ago
  There is also a sliding scale in EU. Western European countries like Germany, France, Sweden, Netherlands, take in far more immigrants than Poland, Hungary etc. The point that triggered this whole thread was immigration is the reason America doesn't have the same quality of life as EU. Which is clearly not true, considering Germany and NL takes in very high % of immigrants. Even with your 13 vs 10% is negligible for any meaningful policy differences. US is different not because of immigration, but due to its political bent.
  - ameister14 8y ago
    It's possible that the US is different because of the length of time that immigrants have been a part of policy, though. It's funny that the US is compared to the EU; the US is more similar to and should probably be compared to Canada, India and Australia
ThirdFoundation 8y ago
I'm having trouble finding a more recent source, but as of 2012 that wasn't close to true. It's actually a larger gap than I expected. I'm going to keep researching to see if I can find more recent numbers. Do you happen to have a more recent source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migration_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra... __EU__ Total net migration: 2,324,066 Net migration per 1000 inhabitants: 4.60 __US__ Total net migration: 5,007,887 Net migration per 1000 inhabitants: 15.94

Per capita basis, I believe EU countries take on more immigrants than America

by dmode 8y ago

Per capita basis, I believe EU countries take on more immigrants than America

I thought that was interesting, so I just checked - the EU as a whole has about 52.5 million people living in countries they were not born in (including other EU countries) and a total population of about 512 million. So that's about 10%. The US has about 44.5 million foreign born in it, with a total population of about 328 million. So that's about 13.5%. So no, the EU does not have more immigrants than the US per capita. If you remove European citizens moving to other European countries, they don't have as many immigrants by sheer number, either.

dmode 8y ago
There is also a sliding scale in EU. Western European countries like Germany, France, Sweden, Netherlands, take in far more immigrants than Poland, Hungary etc. The point that triggered this whole thread was immigration is the reason America doesn't have the same quality of life as EU. Which is clearly not true, considering Germany and NL takes in very high % of immigrants. Even with your 13 vs 10% is negligible for any meaningful policy differences. US is different not because of immigration, but due to its political bent.
- ameister14 8y ago
  It's possible that the US is different because of the length of time that immigrants have been a part of policy, though. It's funny that the US is compared to the EU; the US is more similar to and should probably be compared to Canada, India and Australia

ThirdFoundation 8y ago

I'm having trouble finding a more recent source, but as of 2012 that wasn't close to true. It's actually a larger gap than I expected. I'm going to keep researching to see if I can find more recent numbers. Do you happen to have a more recent source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migration_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra... __EU__ Total net migration: 2,324,066 Net migration per 1000 inhabitants: 4.60 __US__ Total net migration: 5,007,887 Net migration per 1000 inhabitants: 15.94