immigration

The data is from Eurostat (Jan 2001 → Jan 2025). Unfortunately, they do not differentiate between European and non-European immigrants. So in some countries the change may be due in great part to increased mobility within the European Union. For example, 51% of the population of Luxembourg is...

For the first time in recorded history, more Americans are moving to Europe than Europeans moving to the United States. In 2005, there were 140,000 Europeans moving to the U.S. against the 30,000 Americans moving to Europe. The gap has narrowed a lot since COVID and since 2022 more Americans...

It won't come as a surprise to anyone that immigrants from muslim countries in Africa tend to have more children than Europeans. If you ever wondered how big is that gap in each European country here are the numbers for 2024. Next to the fertility rate, you see the share of births for each...

Here is yet another study that found that Maghrebin immigrants cause vastly more crimes per capita than other nationalities, except when it comes to rapes, paedophilia and child pornography, for which Pakistani and Afghans are the most overrepresented. It shows once again how poorly integrated...

The Dutch government has just released the official statistics on how much immigrants from each country contribute to or cost society over their lifetime. The results are shocking. Each immigrant from the horn of Africa (Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia) or Sudan costs the government in average...

Belgium has recently raised the administrative cost of becoming a Belgian citizen from 150€ to 1,000€. There were even talks of raising it to 5, 000€, which would have made it the most expensive in the world. Here is a list of citizenship acquisition fees in various developed countries around...

Euronews: Austria's Freedom Party secures first far-right election win since World War II "Austria's Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreich) has secured the first parliamentary election victory for a far-right party in post-World War II Austria. A projection for ORF public television...

Here is another great video by Ashton. She has an MA and a PhD in human geography, environmental studies, urban planning and architecture, so this is exactly her field of specialisation and it shows.

Marine Le Pen's party, the Rassemblement National (RN), France's main far right anti-immigration party, got 37% of the votes at the general election last Sunday. Over 10 million French people voted for this party. That's over three times more than 5 years ago. The question is why? France has...

In most countries if you're a foreigner and want to apply for the citizenship of your host country, you need to take a test to prove that you have basic knowledge of the language, society, history and institutions of the country. But Belgium goes one step further. All this is actually a...

Sweden is one of the world's most liberal, permissive and tolerant countries. Until not so long ago it was one of the safest countries in the world and one of the most egalitarian. But the naive immigration policy of its socialist politicians have destroyed all this. Sweden now has one of the...

This is what the British newspaper The Economist says in its latest featured article. This may seem ironic considering that British people have voted for Brexit did it in great part to limit immigration. Here are a few excerpts from the article. Britain also has more varied foreign...

Great Britain, Spain and Portugal have set up population colonies that are now home to far more people than the country of origin. But what about more recent diaspora of countries that didn't set up their own population colonies? Largest Italian cities in the world For example is Buenos...

I was having a look at the population projections for 2100 in Our World in Data and thought it would be easier to visualise with a map. Countries in green will see their population grow, while those in orange and red will contract. Of course such projections are very difficult to make and other...

I have created 9 new maps based on the EU Commission's Eurobarometer poll results for Autumn 2019. I will compare them with other maps I made earlier. Democracy This map shows the percentage of the population that is satisfied with the way democracy works in their country at the moment (well...

These two maps show the percentage of foreign-born residents by country in Europe and by state in the United States. In Europe, countries with the highest share of foreigners are Luxembourg (47%) and Switzerland (30%). They also happen to be the richest countries, so it's no surprise that they...

Balking at Balkan babies The Balkans are getting short of people The demography of south-eastern Europe threatens its hopes of prosperity. South eastern europe is in a Catch-22. The region’s many problems prompt young, talented people to leave in droves. But it will not catch up with the rest...

Canada immigration services include providing opportunities for individuals who want a permanent residence in Canada legally. Canada is a land of immense natural beauty that also holds unlimited opportunities for landed immigrants through best socio-economic welfare programs Investor immigration...

Here are few options and longer descriptions: 1. Be glad that so many people love Europe and want to come here to live. Create refugee camps, give them work and education, and rip benefits from cheap labour and millions of new consumers. Let them chose their destination country. 2. Same as 1...

Belgium is generally a fairly good place to live. The country ranks well by international standards on many levels; compulsory education until 18 (highest in the world), high-quality and cheap health care, free motorways, excellent food, reasonably good economy... One of the things that...