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The 10 Countries Where the Most People Were Born Somewhere Else |
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The UN counts 304 million people living outside the country they were born in. That is 3.7% of humanity. In Qatar, it is 76.7% of everyone. In eight countries, people born abroad now outnumber people born at home. |
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Source: UN DESA, International Migrant Stock 2024 (released January 2025). Share of residents born abroad, mid-2024. UN member states. |
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| What's Surprising |
Two of the top four have no oil. Monaco and Liechtenstein are tiny, rich and wedged between bigger neighbours. About seven in ten of their residents were born somewhere else.
Liechtenstein’s own census puts its figure at 42%. It counts where a family lived when a child was born. That matters in a country with no maternity ward. Liechtenstein closed its only one in 2014. Its babies are born in Switzerland or Austria.
Malta is the fastest climber. In 1990, 4.1% of its people were born abroad. Today it is 37.0%, 13th among UN members. Its foreign-born population has grown 13-fold in 34 years.
| What's Not Surprising |
Four Gulf states make the top ten. Their economies run on foreign labour. In Qatar, only about one resident in eight is a citizen. Jordan, at #10, is a special case. The UN count includes registered Palestine refugees, many of them born in Jordan.
The United States has 52.4 million foreign-born residents, more than any other country. That is 17% of all the world’s migrants. As a share of Americans, it is 15.2%. Germany: 19.8%. Australia: 30.4%.
Asia’s giants barely register. China: 0.1%. India: 0.3%. Japan: 2.8%.
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304 million People living outside the country they were born in, as of mid-2024. Nearly double the 154 million of 1990. |
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8 Countries where people born abroad outnumber the native-born. Four are in the Gulf. Four are in Europe. |
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13× Growth in Malta’s foreign-born population since 1990, from 15,077 people to 199,466. |
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52.4 million Foreign-born residents of the United States. The most of any country, and 17% of the world’s total. |
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86.1% Qatar’s foreign-born share in 2015, its peak. It has since fallen to 76.7%. |
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The Gulf is drifting down. Qatar peaked at 86.1% in 2015. The UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have slipped since too. Europe’s small states are climbing. Luxembourg passed 50% for the first time in this edition and now sits 1.1 points behind Bahrain. Malta has risen in every UN estimate since 1990. The next UN edition will show who passes whom. We’ll be watching. |
