demographic2024
Share of the population born in another country
Latest available country observation from Our World in Data, based on the chart's cited sources. The series currently runs through 2024; countries can have different observation years.
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Key Insights
Global Average
15.1%
Median: 6.4%
Countries Covered
232
with available data
Highest
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
100.0%
Lowest
Cuba
0.0%
Top 5 Countries
1Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba100.0%
2Holy See (Vatican City State)100.0%
3Qatar76.7%
4United Arab Emirates74.0%
5Monaco70.2%
By Region
Oceania29.3%(2 countries)
Asia18.1%(27 countries)
Other15.7%(151 countries)
Europe15.5%(32 countries)
North America9.8%(4 countries)
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Low (0.0%)High (100.0%)
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 15.1%)
Oceania (2)
Asia (27)
Other (151)
Europe (32)
North America (4)
South America (7)
Africa (9)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest
About This Statistic
Latest available country observation from Our World in Data, based on the chart's cited sources. The series currently runs through 2024; countries can have different observation years. Source: Our World in Data.
Methodology
Country values are taken from the latest observation available in the linked source series.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba | 100.0% |
| 2 | Holy See (Vatican City State) | 100.0% |
| 3 | Qatar | 76.7% |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 74.0% |
| 5 | Monaco | 70.2% |
| 6 | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 69.5% |
| 7 | Liechtenstein | 69.4% |
| 8 | Aruba | 68.0% |
| 9 | Kuwait | 67.3% |
| 10 | Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | 67.2% |
| 11 | Virgin Islands, U.S. | 66.9% |
| 12 | Virgin Islands, British | 62.1% |
| 13 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 61.1% |
| 14 | Macao | 59.3% |
| 15 | Andorra | 59.1% |
| 16 | Bahrain | 52.3% |
| 17 | Isle of Man | 51.9% |
| 18 | Luxembourg | 51.2% |
| 19 | Tokelau | 51.2% |
| 20 | American Samoa | 50.6% |
| 21 | Guam | 50.2% |
| 22 | Northern Mariana Islands | 49.7% |
| 23 | Singapore | 48.7% |
| 24 | Jordan | 45.7% |
| 25 | Mayotte | 44.0% |
| 26 | Oman | 43.2% |
| 27 | Curaçao | 43.1% |
| 28 | Cayman Islands | 42.9% |
| 29 | French Guiana | 42.4% |
| 30 | Hong Kong | 41.3% |
| 31 | Anguilla | 40.5% |
| 32 | Saudi Arabia | 40.3% |
| 33 | Malta | 37.0% |
| 34 | Cook Islands | 36.0% |
| 35 | Antigua and Barbuda | 32.5% |
| 36 | Niue | 32.3% |
| 37 | Montserrat | 31.9% |
| 38 | Bermuda | 31.2% |
| 39 | Switzerland | 31.1% |
| 40 | Australia | 30.4% |
| 41 | Palau | 29.5% |
| 42 | Gibraltar | 28.7% |
| 43 | New Zealand | 28.2% |
| 44 | New Caledonia | 26.2% |
| 45 | Brunei Darussalam | 25.9% |
| 46 | Austria | 25.5% |
| 47 | Iceland | 25.1% |
| 48 | Lebanon | 24.5% |
| 49 | Guadeloupe | 23.9% |
| 50 | Ireland | 23.1% |
| 51 | Israel | 22.3% |
| 52 | Canada | 22.2% |
| 53 | Sweden | 21.4% |
| 54 | Nauru | 21.3% |
| 55 | Belgium | 20.0% |
| 56 | Martinique | 19.9% |
| 57 | Germany | 19.8% |
| 58 | Spain | 18.5% |
| 59 | Norway | 18.2% |
| 60 | Wallis and Futuna | 18.0% |
| 61 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 17.9% |
| 62 | Gabon | 17.7% |
| 63 | San Marino | 17.4% |
| 64 | United Kingdom | 17.1% |
| 65 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 17.0% |
| 66 | Bahamas | 16.8% |
| 67 | Belize | 16.5% |
| 68 | Netherlands | 16.2% |
| 69 | Reunion | 15.4% |
| 70 | United States of America | 15.2% |
| 71 | Estonia | 14.9% |
| 72 | Cyprus | 14.9% |
| 73 | Slovenia | 14.9% |
| 74 | Faroe Islands | 14.6% |
| 75 | Montenegro | 14.4% |
| 76 | Maldives | 14.2% |
| 77 | Denmark | 14.2% |
| 78 | Greece | 14.2% |
| 79 | France | 13.8% |
| 80 | Croatia | 13.6% |
| 81 | Ukraine | 13.4% |
| 82 | Equatorial Guinea | 13.2% |
| 83 | Dominica | 12.7% |
| 84 | Barbados | 12.5% |
| 85 | Costa Rica | 12.2% |
| 86 | Libya | 12.2% |
| 87 | Latvia | 11.8% |
| 88 | Belarus | 11.6% |
| 89 | Italy | 11.0% |
| 90 | Portugal | 10.8% |
| 91 | Djibouti | 10.8% |
| 92 | Malaysia | 10.7% |
| 93 | French Polynesia | 10.7% |
| 94 | Panama | 10.6% |
| 95 | Serbia | 10.6% |
| 96 | Greenland | 10.4% |
| 97 | Seychelles | 10.2% |
| 98 | Kazakhstan | 10.1% |
| 99 | Czech Republic | 9.5% |
| 100 | Saint Helena | 9.4% |
| 101 | Armenia | 9.2% |
| 102 | Finland | 9.2% |
| 103 | Cote d'Ivoire | 9.0% |
| 104 | Marshall Islands | 8.8% |
| 105 | Republic of The Gambia | 8.6% |
| 106 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 8.3% |
| 107 | Suriname | 8.2% |
| 108 | Türkiye | 8.1% |
| 109 | Chile | 7.8% |
| 110 | South Sudan | 7.7% |
| 111 | Trinidad and Tobago | 7.5% |
| 112 | Hungary | 7.1% |
| 113 | Bhutan | 7.0% |
| 114 | Puerto Rico | 6.9% |
| 115 | Guyana | 6.5% |
| 116 | Dominican Republic | 6.5% |
| 117 | Grenada | 6.3% |
| 118 | Chad | 6.3% |
| 119 | Moldova, Republic of | 6.2% |
| 120 | Lithuania | 6.1% |
| 121 | Republic of the Congo | 6.1% |
| 122 | Slovakia | 5.9% |
| 123 | Colombia | 5.8% |
| 124 | Peru | 5.4% |
| 125 | Russian Federation | 5.3% |
| 126 | State of Palestine | 5.0% |
| 127 | Taiwan, Province of China | 4.9% |
| 128 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 4.8% |
| 129 | Sudan | 4.8% |
| 130 | Uruguay | 4.7% |
| 131 | Botswana | 4.6% |
| 132 | Poland | 4.5% |
| 133 | Saint Lucia | 4.5% |
| 134 | Venezuela | 4.4% |
| 135 | Thailand | 4.4% |
| 136 | Bulgaria | 4.4% |
| 137 | Argentina | 4.3% |
| 138 | Islamic Republic of Iran | 4.2% |
| 139 | Ecuador | 4.1% |
| 140 | Uganda | 4.1% |
| 141 | South Africa | 4.1% |
| 142 | Namibia | 3.8% |
| 143 | Mauritania | 3.8% |
| 144 | Syrian Arab Republic | 3.6% |
| 145 | Rwanda | 3.6% |
| 146 | South Korea | 3.5% |
| 147 | Romania | 3.4% |
| 148 | Tonga | 3.4% |
| 149 | Uzbekistan | 3.2% |
| 150 | Cape Verde | 3.1% |
| 151 | Burkina Faso | 3.1% |
| 152 | Togo | 3.0% |
| 153 | Benin | 2.9% |
| 154 | Burundi | 2.8% |
| 155 | Japan | 2.8% |
| 156 | Kyrgyzstan | 2.7% |
| 157 | Eswatini | 2.7% |
| 158 | Tajikistan | 2.6% |
| 159 | Paraguay | 2.6% |
| 160 | Turkmenistan | 2.6% |
| 161 | Zimbabwe | 2.6% |
| 162 | Micronesia, Federated States of | 2.6% |
| 163 | Tuvalu | 2.6% |
| 164 | Kiribati | 2.5% |
| 165 | Mauritius | 2.3% |
| 166 | Mali | 2.2% |
| 167 | Cameroon | 2.2% |
| 168 | Georgia | 2.1% |
| 169 | Azerbaijan | 2.1% |
| 170 | Angola | 1.8% |
| 171 | Central African Republic | 1.8% |
| 172 | Samoa | 1.8% |
| 173 | Kenya | 1.8% |
| 174 | Bangladesh | 1.7% |
| 175 | Pakistan | 1.7% |
| 176 | Niger | 1.7% |
| 177 | Albania | 1.7% |
| 178 | Nepal | 1.6% |
| 179 | Fiji | 1.5% |
| 180 | Ghana | 1.5% |
| 181 | Senegal | 1.5% |
| 182 | Bolivia | 1.5% |
| 183 | Comoros | 1.4% |
| 184 | Mexico | 1.3% |
| 185 | Liberia | 1.3% |
| 186 | Zambia | 1.2% |
| 187 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.1% |
| 188 | Mozambique | 1.0% |
| 189 | Vanuatu | 1.0% |
| 190 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1.0% |
| 191 | Egypt | 1.0% |
| 192 | Yemen | 1.0% |
| 193 | Western Sahara | 1.0% |
| 194 | Ethiopia | 0.9% |
| 195 | Malawi | 0.9% |
| 196 | Jamaica | 0.8% |
| 197 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.8% |
| 198 | Iraq | 0.8% |
| 199 | Guinea | 0.8% |
| 200 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.7% |
| 201 | El Salvador | 0.7% |
| 202 | United Republic of Tanzania | 0.7% |
| 203 | Brazil | 0.7% |
| 204 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 0.7% |
| 205 | Mongolia | 0.6% |
| 206 | Lesotho | 0.6% |
| 207 | Nicaragua | 0.6% |
| 208 | Nigeria | 0.6% |
| 209 | Timor-Leste | 0.6% |
| 210 | Sierra Leone | 0.6% |
| 211 | Algeria | 0.6% |
| 212 | Tunisia | 0.5% |
| 213 | Guatemala | 0.5% |
| 214 | Cambodia | 0.5% |
| 215 | Somalia | 0.4% |
| 216 | Honduras | 0.4% |
| 217 | Eritrea | 0.4% |
| 218 | India | 0.3% |
| 219 | Vietnam | 0.3% |
| 220 | Solomon Islands | 0.3% |
| 221 | Papua New Guinea | 0.3% |
| 222 | Morocco | 0.3% |
| 223 | Afghanistan | 0.2% |
| 224 | North Korea | 0.2% |
| 225 | Sri Lanka | 0.2% |
| 226 | Haiti | 0.2% |
| 227 | Indonesia | 0.2% |
| 228 | Myanmar | 0.1% |
| 229 | Madagascar | 0.1% |
| 230 | People's Republic of China | 0.1% |
| 231 | Philippines | 0.1% |
| 232 | Cuba | 0.0% |
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Data Source
This data comes from Our World in Data (2024).
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