Talk:List of sovereign states by immigrant and emigrant population

immigrant population?
What does this term mean? The article links to immigrant but no clarity there. First generation immigrants only? -- Green  C  02:06, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

I agree with the confusion. For example, the foreign workers in Saudi Arabia or the UAE are not immigrants (I'm a resident in KSA). We can never stay here permanently. When the job is finished, we must leave. There is almost no immigration to Gulf countries. There is a difference between immigrant and guest worker. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rkolian (talk • contribs) 12:27, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

USA & Canada
If you count the US-born children of immigrants as immigrants then the US has about 80-85 million, or about 25-26% of it's population (source: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/, non-partisan). USA and Canada are the only developed countries on earth that grant "Birthright Citizenship," and the only countries for which the UN does not count these children as immigrants. The UN list is rather misleading as a result. The rate of immigration to the US is much higher then the UN makes it appear.


 * Children of immigrants are immigrants? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:186:4301:20E:3DA5:D21:D6C:3898 (talk) 17:23, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Germany
How can the Number of immigrants in Germany be ~12 Mio but the percantage of immigrants of national population be 11.9%.

Germany has a Population of ~81-82 Mio (This would make a percantage of ~15%).

Indeed. I corrected that. Obviously, someone forgot to update the percentage number to 14.9% according to the 2015 report. Also, immigrants to Germany make up 4.9% of all immigrants ("Of World"). Walahfrid Schwarzenberg (talk) 15:06, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

China
How did China go from having ~4 million immigrants in 2005 to 800k in 2013?68.117.218.247 (talk) 03:46, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorting is broken?
If the sorting is toggled for the 'Number of Immigrants' it treats values with 9 as high, even if it is a smaller number. eg Guadeloupe with 98,507 is higher than Portugal which has 837,257 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.143.68.50 (talk) 19:18, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

All of the percentages are wrong.
The percentages of immigrants as a share of population seem to be all wrong. They're often quite a bit off from the correct figures and it's not obvious where those figures came from.

The cited source actually contains the correct percentages, it's just not the ones displayed on the wiki page. They can be found in table three in the XLS linked as "total international migrant stock" on the source page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:238:F014:5DD:C504:38E9:286C:BDCE (talk) 16:27, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Merger with List of countries by foreign-born population
The lead section of the article had previously claimed a difference between "immigrant population of a country" vs. "foreign-born population" with no citations:

"This is a list of countries by immigrant population. Foreign-born population is not the same as immigrant population, as there are births of citizens abroad who work or travel overseas, as well as non-immigrants who reside in a country temporarily for work or other reasons."

I have since added citations, and as the UN report, used in the article itself said, there is no such difference. The UN defines it simply as, "international migrants — persons living in a country other than where they were born," the pages should therefore be merged, since this is now pretty obvious and backed by credible sources I have taken the decision to be bold and just go ahead and do it.

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There should be two tables, rather than one, too many non-countries skew the list
Tropical islands that are still colonies of colonialist countries, military possessions, city states, they deserve discussions as nations, but intermingling them in with countries equates to misinformation. I'd go so far as to say that their intermingling is not accidental but has a POV looking to diminish in a weasely way the percentages in autonomous countries. There should be one table of actual countries, and another table with the more diminutive breakdown for various administrative units.--Tallard (talk) 20:34, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Updated Spain
Source is here. Spain seems to top the per capita list among large European countries. https://www.ine.es/jaxi/Datos.htm?path=/t20/e245/p04/provi/l0/&file=00000009.px#!tabs-tabla — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.18.163.39 (talk) 23:27, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

UN 2019 Update
Hi, Here's the 2019 Revision of the UN Report. Percentages are available in Table 3 of this document. I'll update the chart if I have some time and if no one else does it in the meantime :) Best, A455bcd9 (talk) 11:50, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I've just updated the report. I'd like to do the same for the other section of the article ("UN 2015 report: emigrant population") but I cannot find those numbers. I think they may have been calculated manually base on this file. A455bcd9 (talk) 06:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I found the data and updated the article. This graph is interesting to represent evolution over time. It may be added to the article if under a free licence. A455bcd9 (talk) 10:36, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

India
How can India's immigrant population be among the highest in the world when the percentage is among the lowest? 23.150.224.26 (talk) 19:29, 12 January 2023 (UTC)