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The Countries With The Highest Share Of International Migrants May Surprise You

The number of international migrants worldwide hit 304 million in 2024, a figure that has doubled since 1990.

As people relocate across borders for reasons ranging from work opportunities to conflict and displacement, certain countries have become major destinations for foreign-born populations.

This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, visualizes the top 20 countries with the highest proportion of international migrants in their populations as of 2024, based on data from the United Nations.

An international migrant is defined as someone living in a country other than their birth country for at least 12 months, regardless of reasons or status.

Which Country Has the Highest Share of International Migrants?

Below, we show countries by share of international migrants in their population.

Rank
Country
Share (%) of international migrants in total population (2024)
1
🇶🇦 Qatar
76.7
2
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
74.0
3
🇲🇨 Monaco
70.2
4
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
69.4
5
🇰🇼 Kuwait
67.3
6
🇦🇩 Andorra
59.1
7
🇧🇭 Bahrain
52.3
8
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
51.2
9
🇸🇬 Singapore
48.7
10
🇯🇴 Jordan
45.7
11
🇴🇲 Oman
43.2
12
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
40.3
13
🇲🇹 Malta
37.0
14
🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda
32.5
15
🇨🇭 Switzerland
31.1
16
🇦🇺 Australia
30.4
17
🇵🇼 Palau
29.5
18
🇳🇿 New Zealand
28.2
19
🇧🇳 Brunei
25.9
20
🇦🇹 Austria
25.5
21
🇮🇸 Iceland
25.1
22
🇱🇧 Lebanon
24.5
23
🇫🇲 Micronesia
23.4
24
🇮🇪 Ireland
23.1
25
🇮🇱 Israel
22.3
26
🇨🇦 Canada
22.2
27
🇸🇪 Sweden
21.4
28
🇳🇷 Nauru
21.3
29
🇧🇪 Belgium
20.0
30
🇩🇪 Germany
19.8
31
🇪🇸 Spain
18.5
32
🇳🇴 Norway
18.2
33
🇬🇦 Gabon
17.7
34
🇸🇲 San Marino
17.4
35
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
17.1
36
🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis
17.0
37
🇧🇸 Bahamas
16.8
38
🇧🇿 Belize
16.5
39
🇳🇱 Netherlands
16.2
40
🇺🇸 United States
15.2
41
🇨🇾 Cyprus
14.9
42
🇪🇪 Estonia
14.9
43
🇸🇮 Slovenia
14.9
44
🇲🇪 Montenegro
14.4
45
🇩🇰 Denmark
14.2
46
🇬🇷 Greece
14.2
47
🇲🇻 Maldives
14.2
48
🇫🇷 France
13.8
49
🇭🇷 Croatia
13.6
50
🇺🇦 Ukraine
13.4
51
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
13.2
52
🇩🇲 Dominica
12.7
53
🇧🇧 Barbados
12.5
54
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
12.2
55
🇱🇾 Libya
12.2
56
🇱🇻 Latvia
11.8
57
🇧🇾 Belarus
11.6
58
🇮🇹 Italy
11.0
59
🇩🇯 Djibouti
10.8
60
🇵🇹 Portugal
10.8
61
🇲🇾 Malaysia
10.7
62
🇵🇦 Panama
10.6
63
🇷🇸 Serbia
10.6
64
🇸🇨 Seychelles
10.2
65
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
10.1
66
🇨🇿 Czechia
9.5
67
🇸🇭 Saint Helena
9.4
68
🇦🇲 Armenia
9.2
69
🇫🇮 Finland
9.2
70
🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire
9.0
71
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
8.8
72
🇬🇲 Gambia
8.6
73
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
8.3
74
🇸🇷 Suriname
8.2
75
🇹🇷 Türkiye
8.1
76
🇨🇱 Chile
7.8
77
🇸🇸 South Sudan
7.7
78
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
7.5
79
🇭🇺 Hungary
7.1
80
🇧🇹 Bhutan
7.0
81
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
6.5
82
🇬🇾 Guyana
6.5
83
🇹🇩 Chad
6.3
84
🇬🇩 Grenada
6.3
85
🇲🇩 Moldova
6.2
86
🇨🇬 Congo
6.1
87
🇱🇹 Lithuania
6.1
88
🇸🇰 Slovakia
5.9
89
🇨🇴 Colombia
5.8
90
🇵🇪 Peru
5.4
91
🇷🇺 Russia
5.3
92
🇵🇸 State of Palestine
5.0
93
Saint Vincent and Grenadines
4.8
94
🇸🇩 Sudan
4.8
95
🇺🇾 Uruguay
4.7
96
🇧🇼 Botswana
4.6
97
🇵🇱 Poland
4.5
98
🇱🇨 Saint Lucia
4.5
99
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
4.4
100
🇹🇭 Thailand
4.4
101
🇻🇪 Venezuela
4.4
102
🇦🇷 Argentina
4.3
103
🇮🇷 Iran
4.2
104
🇪🇨 Ecuador
4.1
105
🇿🇦 South Africa
4.1
106
🇺🇬 Uganda
4.1
107
🇲🇷 Mauritania
3.8
108
🇳🇦 Namibia
3.8
109
🇷🇼 Rwanda
3.6
110
🇸🇾 Syria
3.6
111
🇰🇷 South Korea
3.5
112
🇷🇴 Romania
3.4
113
🇹🇴 Tonga
3.4
114
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
3.2
115
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
3.1
116
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde
3.1
117
🇹🇬 Togo
3.0
118
🇧🇯 Benin
2.9
119
🇧🇮 Burundi
2.8
120
🇯🇵 Japan
2.8
121
🇸🇿 Eswatini
2.7
122
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
2.7
123
🇵🇾 Paraguay
2.6
124
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
2.6
125
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
2.6
126
🇹🇻 Tuvalu
2.6
127
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
2.6
128
🇰🇮 Kiribati
2.5
129
🇲🇺 Mauritius
2.3
130
🇨🇲 Cameroon
2.2
131
🇲🇱 Mali
2.2
132
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
2.1
133
🇬🇪 Georgia
2.1
134
🇦🇴 Angola
1.8
135
🇨🇫 Central African Republic
1.8
136
🇰🇪 Kenya
1.8
137
🇼🇸 Samoa
1.8
138
🇦🇱 Albania
1.7
139
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
1.7
140
🇳🇬 Niger
1.7
141
🇵🇰 Pakistan
1.7
142
🇳🇵 Nepal
1.6
143
🇧🇴 Bolivia
1.5
144
🇫🇯 Fiji
1.5
145
🇬🇭 Ghana
1.5
146
🇸🇳 Senegal
1.5
147
🇰🇲 Comoros
1.4
148
🇱🇷 Liberia
1.3
149
🇲🇽 Mexico
1.3
150
🇿🇲 Zambia
1.2
151
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
1.1
152
🇨🇩 DR Congo
1.0
153
🇪🇬 Egypt
1.0
154
🇲🇿 Mozambique
1.0
155
🇻🇺 Vanuatu
1.0
156
🇾🇪 Yemen
1.0
157
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
0.9
158
🇲🇼 Malawi
0.9
159
🇬🇳 Guinea
0.8
160
🇮🇶 Iraq
0.8
161
🇯🇲 Jamaica
0.8
162
🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe
0.8
163
🇧🇷 Brazil
0.7
164
🇸🇻 El Salvador
0.7
165
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau
0.7
166
Laos
0.7
167
🇹🇿 Tanzania
0.7
168
🇩🇿 Algeria
0.6
169
🇱🇸 Lesotho
0.6
170
🇲🇳 Mongolia
0.6
171
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
0.6
172
🇳🇬 Nigeria
0.6
173
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
0.6
174
🇹🇱 Timor-Leste
0.6
175
🇰🇭 Cambodia
0.5
176
🇬🇹 Guatemala
0.5
177
🇹🇳 Tunisia
0.5
178
🇪🇷 Eritrea
0.4
179
🇭🇳 Honduras
0.4
180
🇸🇴 Somalia
0.4
181
🇮🇳 India
0.3
182
🇲🇦 Morocco
0.3
183
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
0.3
184
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands
0.3
185
🇻🇳 Vietnam
0.3
186
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
0.2
187
🇰🇵 North Korea
0.2
188
🇭🇹 Haiti
0.2
189
🇮🇩 Indonesia
0.2
190
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
0.2
191
🇨🇳 China
0.1
192
🇲🇬 Madagascar
0.1
193
🇲🇲 Myanmar
0.1
194
🇵🇭 Philippines
0.1
195
🇨🇺 Cuba
0.0
In 2024, Qatar had the world’s highest share of foreign-born residents, with international migrants making up over three-quarters (76.7%) of its population.

Several Gulf states like Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait ranked at the top of the list, as their economies rely heavily on foreign labor, with migrants making up an overwhelming majority of their workforces.

These countries host higher proportions of international migrants largely due to the kafala system—a sponsorship-based labor framework that ties foreign workers to their employers—drawing million of people for low-wage jobs.

Several small European countries such as Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Andorra also have high shares of migrants, largely due to their small populations and roles as financial or tourism hubs.

U.S. is Still Home to the Most Migrants

By total population, the U.S. recorded the highest number of international…

When The U.S. Army Occupied PA’s Anthracite Coal Region

Authored by Jake Wynn via RealClearPennsylvania,

In October 1862, Irish mineworkers in the rural coal mining villages of western Schuylkill County rose up in armed opposition to Pennsylvania’s first attempt to create a drafted militia to add soldiers to the United States Army.

They marched from mine to mine across Cass and New Castle Townships, shutting down mining operations as they went. Several hundred men, some armed with pistols and other weaponry, stopped a train carrying recruits for the Army at the village of Tremont and ordered them to return to their homes. Chaos reigned through mid-October in Schuylkill County, raising alarm bells in the county seat in Pottsville, the state capital in Harrisburg, and even among leaders in Washington.

It was the second autumn of the Civil War and a month since the U.S. Army’s victory at the Battle of Antietam, resulting in President Abraham Lincoln’s issuance of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing enslaved people in the Confederate states.

The war effort, however, had not been going particularly well for the Union. The summer of 1862 included a string of defeats for the U.S. Army in Virginia and in other theaters of the conflict, resulting in a series of Confederate invasions into the border states of Kentucky and Maryland.

With morale sagging across the Northern states, the Lincoln administration and state leaders like Pennsylvania’s Gov. Andrew Curtin sought other ways to boost enlistment into the state’s military forces serving under the Federal government. Curtin’s administration initiated mechanisms to begin drafting men into state militia units, infuriating opponents of the Republican administrations in Harrisburg and Washington.

The Irish population of western Schuylkill County had many grievances as the Civil War raged on. Often relegated to the worst jobs in the mining hierarchy of the anthracite coal fields, they lived in the tiny hamlets and patch towns around mining operations, or collieries, scattered across the rugged landscape north and west of Pottsville. They faced dangerous working conditions, low pay, and company-owned housing that was often barely fit for human habitation.

With the issuance of an executive order regarding the freedom of the South’s slaves, the anger of the immigrant working class of Schuylkill County grew to fever pitch. Conspiracy theories spread about the Lincoln administration’s motive to free the enslaved.

“We can tell the President of the United States, and his Abolition advisers, that they must keep their negroes out of the Coal Regions, unless they desire to inaugurate war in the North,” wrote the Pottsville Standard newspaper in fall 1862. “The people of this section of the State will not allow emancipated slaves to be thrown in competition white labor.”

Fears about the replacement of white, working-class laborers in the mines, though baseless, mixed with early attempts by the mineworkers of Schuylkill County to organize themselves. They sought to improve working conditions in the mines and the pay they received as the price of anthracite coal reached new heights due to extensive war-time demand.

The organization of Schuylkill County mineworkers and their…

The Sour Aftertaste Of The Digital Age

Authored by Mark Bauerlein via The Epoch Times,

As one state and school district after another bans cellphones in classrooms, we should pause for a moment and appreciate what a remarkable reversal has occurred.

Recent books by Jonathan Haidt and Christine Rosen, among others, have succeeded so well by saying what only a few years ago would have pegged them as alarmists and reactionaries. Haidt has chronicled the emotional damage the smartphone has done to kids, while Rosen details the damage screens have done to the habits of daily life, habits which humanize and enlighten us. To have said so in 2012 would have run up against a tidal wave of enthusiasm for social media, Wikipedia, texting, Google, etc. Now, they receive praise and agreement, as they should.

What happened? What made the cellphone in a 12-year-old’s hand slip into disfavor? I remember educators treating those “Digital Natives” as pioneers and innovators. The tool was a knowledge producer, they believed, a window into art, history, politics, current events, and economics. Finally, the kids had a means of independent inquiry, we were told, a machine that was customized to their individual curiosity and aptitude, enabling them to escape the homogenizing routines of the 25-person classroom and to pursue their intellectual passions freely. Learning would take off. People who warned about other uses of the tool in the hands of the young—pornography, peer pressure, bullying, daily hours of video games, pictures passed back and forth at midnight, and so on—had no traction, not when everything seemed so new and promising.

No longer. Schools have been wired, 8th-graders given laptops, and reading and math scores have dropped. High school kids have had the universe of knowledge at their fingertips, and college teachers nonetheless complain that entering classes are ever more ignorant and a-literate (that is, they know how to read but don’t do it much). The promise has not been realized, though mountains of money have been spent. At this point, teens on the bus, in the restaurant, and at the mall with one another, all eyes fixed on little screens, have the opposite identity—not active intellects searching the world, but adolescents bantering and scrolling, gaming and filming, liking and disliking one another.

I wonder what those cheerleaders of old think now, the ones who pushed screens on schools with assurances of future miracles, now that a lot of those schools are saying, “Wrong!” I have yet to hear of a school that banned the phones admit three months later, “Uh-oh, things are worse, learning is slipping, bring back the handhelds.” That’s not going to happen. What Haidt and Rosen et al. document is a real problem empirically observed, not an ideology merely asserted (Haidt is a liberal, Rosen’s a conservative).

What phones have done and continue to do to the hearts, minds, and souls of the young is ever more distressing as the years pass. The bans are going to become universal, I predict, because the advantages of doing so will prove…

IEA Doubles Down On Peak Oil Demand Forecast

Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com,

The International Energy Agency forecasts global oil demand to peak and plateau by the end of this decade, with China’s demand peaking earlier than previously anticipated.

While oil supply is expected to outpace demand growth, geopolitical risks and trade tensions introduce significant uncertainties to the oil market.

There is a notable divergence in viewpoints between the IEA and OPEC regarding future oil demand, with OPEC predicting continued growth beyond the current decade.

A peak in global oil demand is still on the horizon, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday, doubling down on its forecast that demand will plateau by the end of the decade. 

China’s oil demand, which increased by a cumulative 6 million barrels per day (bpd) in the decade to 2024, is set to peak earlier than previously expected, the agency said in its annual Oil 2025 report for the medium term. 

While China – the world’s top crude oil importer – accounted for 60% of the global increase in oil consumption in 2015-2024, “the picture to 2030 looks very different,” the IEA said.   

China’s demand is on track to peak in 2027 – two years earlier than previously thought – amid “an extraordinary surge in EV sales, the continued deployment of trucks running on liquefied natural gas (LNG), as well as strong growth in the country’s high-speed rail network, along with structural shifts in its economy.” 

Global oil demand is forecast to rise by 2.5 million bpd from 2024 to 2030, reaching a plateau around 105.5 million bpd by the end of the decade, per the agency’s latest estimates.   

Annual global growth will slow from about 700,000 bpd in 2025 and 2026 “to just a trickle over the next several years, with a small decline expected in 2030, based on today’s policy settings and market trends,” the IEA said. 

The agency expects below-trend economic growth, weighed down by global trade tensions and fiscal imbalances, and accelerating substitution away from oil in the transport and power generation sectors.  

At the same time, the increase in global oil supply is “set to far outpace demand growth in coming years,” according to the agency. 

“Based on the fundamentals, oil markets look set to be well-supplied in the years ahead – but recent events sharply highlight the significant geopolitical risks to oil supply security,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said.  

If no major supply disruptions occur, the oil market will be comfortably supplied through 2030, the agency reckons, but warned that “significant uncertainties remain, especially given rising geopolitical risks and heightened trade tensions.” 

The IEA’s “peak demand on the horizon” narrative once again clashes with OPEC’s view of growing oil demand at least into the 2040s. 

Just last week, OPEC Secretary General, Haitham Al Ghais, said that oil demand would continue growing over the coming decades as the world’s population increases. 

“Simply put, there is no ‘peak in oil demand’ on the horizon,” Al Ghais said at The Global Energy Show Canada in Calgary, Canada.  

Tyler Durden
Wed, 06/18/2025 – 06:30…

Impervious To Suffering

Authored by Todd Hayen via Off-Guardian.org,

Can I be so bold as to say I may have figured something out? It is probably something all of you already know, as I can be a bit slow on the uptake. I keep hearing from the sheep-types that they really don’t care if we lose all of our freedoms. They don’t care about losing privacy because they don’t have anything to hide, they don’t care about losing free speech because people should be punished for saying bad and/or dangerous things (and they have nothing to say that would be considered bad and/or dangerous).

They have no fear of the government getting too much control because there will never be a reason the government would want or need to control them.

They don’t fear communism or fascism primarily because they don’t know what those two ideologies clearly mean, and besides, that would never happen in a free society—which they are ready to give up anyway.

Of course, to all of us shrew-types, we practically lose our cookies thinking about living in a society where basic freedoms have been stripped away, or where the government, or any other authority, has power over our movements, our money, and our fundamental existence.

When we hear someone say, “I don’t care how much control the authorities have, I have nothing to hide, and I do nothing wrong, therefore it is not something to worry about for me,” we blow a gasket.

Don’t they know?

Don’t they know that when the control over the masses surely does take effect it won’t matter a tinker’s damn if they “have nothing to hide” or “don’t do anything bad.” Oppression comes in many flavours, and its primary purpose is not to punish wrongdoing, but rather to keep people, in a very general way, compliant and under control.

Control sets the tone of the behaviour of a society. A good example of this came about during the Canadian Trucker’s Convoy. People who donated to that cause ran the risk of having their bank accounts frozen. (I was one that this happened to.) Was donating to a “cause” such as the Trucker’s Convoy a “bad thing”—was it against the law, was it criminal? In a free society, protesting (peacefully) and standing up against any sort of injustice an individual finds abhorrent is one of our fundamental rights as citizens of a free country.

However, punishing people who do something the government does not approve of sets a bar that indicates what is acceptable and what is not. People seeing friends and family being punished for contributing to a cause such as the truckers convoy, will categorize their activity as the activity of “a bad person”—whereas before the punishment was laid upon them (the freezing of their bank accounts) these same people would have had no trouble wearing a pussy hat and marching against Donald Trump.

They find what the government did (freezing accounts) as “reasonable” and they tell themselves that whoever contributed was a “bad person” and deserves to be reprimanded.

There is…