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No other country lets in more immigrants per year. The US has more immigrants than any other country by a wide margin. https://worldpopulationreview.com/countr

No other country lets in more immigrants per year. The US has more immigrants than any other country by a wide margin. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigration-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati... https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-immigration-by-country-as-a-percentage-of-the-population/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-immigration-by-co...

vkou 4y ago
Not per capita, which is the only sensible metric to use. Germany, Canada, Australia are all higher on that.
- taude 4y ago
  In this case, the net metric is the sensible one to use.
  - jeffy90 4y ago
    why is the net metric more sensible in this case?
    - pb7 4y ago
      Not the GP but a larger total number means you have a higher likelihood of being one of the people to be granted entry. A country of 1000 people may accept 10 people and that be a very large per-capita rate, but odds of you being one of 10 people accepted out of billions of possible immigrants is very low. It's not like it's one visa application for all countries in the world.
- toephu2 4y ago
  Per capita it seems Saudi Arabia is #1? (for any country with a population higher than 10 million) Surprised to see it higher than Canada, U.S., and any major country in Europe...
  - mrguyorama 4y ago
    Do middle eastern despotic regimes count the bodies the bury under their construction sites as "Immigrants"?
    - vkou 4y ago
      They shouldn't, just like Russia shouldn't be counted (because it has a very peculiar situation with shared citizenship with the other former Soviet Republics.)
- TehShrike 4y ago
  "as a percentage of people who would like to immigrate there" would also be interesting to see :-x
toephu2 4y ago
Wow 38% of Saudi Arabia's population are immigrants? Never imagined that one. Always seemed like a closed off country which people couldn't even travel to for tourism (unless making a pilgrimage to Mecca as a Muslim) until recently (2019).
srathi 4y ago
Dubai has almost 90% of population as immigrants! TIL.
chrisbaker98 4y ago
Almost as if the US is the third-biggest country in the world!

vkou 4y ago

Not per capita, which is the only sensible metric to use. Germany, Canada, Australia are all higher on that.

taude 4y ago
In this case, the net metric is the sensible one to use.
- jeffy90 4y ago
  why is the net metric more sensible in this case?
  - pb7 4y ago
    Not the GP but a larger total number means you have a higher likelihood of being one of the people to be granted entry. A country of 1000 people may accept 10 people and that be a very large per-capita rate, but odds of you being one of 10 people accepted out of billions of possible immigrants is very low. It's not like it's one visa application for all countries in the world.
toephu2 4y ago
Per capita it seems Saudi Arabia is #1? (for any country with a population higher than 10 million) Surprised to see it higher than Canada, U.S., and any major country in Europe...
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  Do middle eastern despotic regimes count the bodies the bury under their construction sites as "Immigrants"?
  - vkou 4y ago
    They shouldn't, just like Russia shouldn't be counted (because it has a very peculiar situation with shared citizenship with the other former Soviet Republics.)
TehShrike 4y ago
"as a percentage of people who would like to immigrate there" would also be interesting to see :-x

toephu2 4y ago

Wow 38% of Saudi Arabia's population are immigrants? Never imagined that one. Always seemed like a closed off country which people couldn't even travel to for tourism (unless making a pilgrimage to Mecca as a Muslim) until recently (2019).

srathi 4y ago

Dubai has almost 90% of population as immigrants! TIL.

chrisbaker98 4y ago

Almost as if the US is the third-biggest country in the world!