{"id":305452,"date":"2019-03-17T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=305452"},"modified":"2019-03-15T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T14:48:31","slug":"the-15-countries-with-the-most-immigrants-including-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/305452\/the-15-countries-with-the-most-immigrants-including-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15 countries with the most immigrants &#8211; including South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has the highest number of immigrants (foreign-born individuals), with 48 million in 2015, five times more than in Saudi Arabia (11 million) and six times more than in Canada (7.6 million).<\/p>\n<p>However, in proportion to their population size, these two countries have significantly more immigrants: 34% and 21%, respectively, versus 15% in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to Gilles Pison, professor at the National Museum of Natural History and Associate Researcher at INED, who has released a new report on the world&#8217;s immigration patterns for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/which-countries-have-the-most-immigrants-113074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, South Africa places 15th on the list with 3.8 million immigrants in the country &#8211; making up 6.9% of the total population.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/South-Africa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305454 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/South-Africa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/South-Africa.jpg 754w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/South-Africa-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pison said that countries with a high proportion of immigrants can typically be divided into five groups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first group comprises countries that are sparsely populated but have abundant oil resources, where immigrants sometimes outnumber the native-born population (eg the UAE);<\/li>\n<li>The second group consists of very small territories, microstates, often with special tax rules (eg Monaco);<\/li>\n<li>The third group is made up of nations formerly designated as \u201cnew countries\u201d, which cover vast territories but are still sparsely populated (eg Australia and Canada);<\/li>\n<li>The fourth group, which is similar to the third in terms of mode of development, is that of Western industrial democracies, in which the proportion of immigrants generally ranges from 9% to 17% (eg Australia and Sweden);<\/li>\n<li>The fifth group includes the so-called \u201ccountries of first asylum\u201d, which receive massive flows of refugees due to conflicts in a neighbouring country (eg Lebanon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/305044\/how-much-uk-australian-and-other-popular-visas-will-cost-south-africans-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How much UK, Australian and other popular visas will cost South Africans in 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has the highest number of immigrants (foreign-born individuals), with 48 million in 2015, five times more than in Saudi Arabia (11 million) and six times more than in Canada (7.6 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":296184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-305452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305456,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305452\/revisions\/305456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}