Foreign-Born Population Share by Country 2024

About This Dataset

This chart ranks countries by international migrant stock as a share of total population in 2024, meaning the proportion of residents who were born in another country. It measures the accumulated result of migration, not annual flows.

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Qatar leads with 76.7% of residents born abroad, followed by the United Arab Emirates on 74%, meaning roughly three in four people in both countries are migrants. These figures are unmatched anywhere and stem from labour migration systems that import workers on temporary contracts while rarely granting citizenship, so the migrant share never falls. Kuwait's 67.3% follows the same model. The rest of the list is made up of micro-states and Caribbean territories: Monaco, Liechtenstein, Aruba, Sint Maarten and the Virgin Islands all exceed 60%, where tiny native populations are easily outnumbered. No large Western nation appears, despite migration dominating their politics, because even the highest such shares are well under 30%.

Source: World Bank (UN Population Division)

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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Qatar leads with 77 in 2024.

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Average value in 2024: 69 · median: 69.

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Gap in 2024: Qatar is 1.3× larger than Turks and Caicos Islands.