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> And the US is one of the top immigrant countries in the world. Always worth reflecting why people choose that It's nowhere the top as a percent of the total
by lm28469 11mo ago
> And the US is one of the top immigrant countries in the world. Always worth reflecting why people choose that
It's nowhere the top as a percent of the total population. It's at the top in absolute number because it's the largest developed country by far.
- paulddraper 11mo agoComparison is hard, because states themselves are the size (land and population) as other countries. People that would be counted "immigrants" elsewhere are not. E.g. Switzerland has an unusually high immigrant population, but also an unusually high emmigrant population. The U.S. has 52m immigrants and 4.8m emmigrants. [1] Nowhere else is nearly that ratio. Next closest would be Canada. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_immigrant_and_emigrant_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_im...