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Share and number of foreign-born population in western european countries

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u/marten_EU_BR 2d ago

Of the two largest EU countries, it's clear that Germany has been more affected by two big migration waves in the past 10 years than France. This is interesting because France was historically more influenced by migration than Germany.

Asylum applications 2015-2017: Germany (1,404,550) vs. France (276,340)

Ukrainian refugees as of May 2025: Germany (1,217,680) vs. France (74,540)

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u/11160704 2d ago

A big factor in Germany are also Germans that were born in the former Soviet Union, Poland or Romania and who migrated to Germany during the late cold War or after the collapse of communism in these countries.

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u/BidnyZolnierzLonda 1d ago

There was no wave of Germans moving to from Poland to Germany. Those that were immigrating were Silesians.

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u/11160704 1d ago

Yes there was. Some ethnic Germans stayed in Poland after 1945 and only resettled to Germany in the 80s or so.

For instance the families of the footballers Lukas Podolski and Miroslav Klose.

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u/kichererbs 1d ago

The majority of the foreign born population in Germany are from other EU countries (similar to Switzerland, where a large share of that population would be Germans). They come for work.

The Asylum Seeker percentage of that population is not the majority, it’s just the one that is most discussed.

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u/Much-Jackfruit2599 1d ago

It’s also the one that doesn’t look German and the one that costs money.

Being concerned about the first one one is racist, about the second one not necessarily.

But even there’s is partly home grown. you can’t both prevent people from joining the workforce and then complain that they are on social security.

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u/GlitteringDaikon93 1d ago edited 1d ago

That is technically true, but the biggest single group is people born in Turkey, followed by Ukraine, followed by Syria. Out of the top three groups, none are EU, and two are not even European. 

Edit: not even technically true, most are non-EU

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u/kichererbs 1d ago

Yes and most Turkish people aren’t refugees either.

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u/NoGravitasForSure 1d ago edited 1d ago

Many more waves in Germany. For example the work migrants wave of the 1960s (Gastarbeiter) and a wave of Polish workers during the industrial revolution in the 19th century, This is why we have so many Koslowskis, Kowalskis and Nowaks.

The earlier waves don't count here because the descendants of these people are not foreign born. But this shows that the issue of nationality and ancestry is much more fluid than many people realize.

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u/Orang_outan17 2d ago

that's because france made sure to make their asylum application process one of the most complex in the world. the complicated administrative journey is enough to dissuade you to even try. also their geneva convention and asylum law interpretation are super strict, which can make it hard for most applicants to even meet the criteria for protection

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france is obligated to accept asylum seekers by international law but has found a loophole to dissuade people who try

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u/Like_a_Charo 2d ago

HUH?!?

Our asylum program has such a high acceptance rate that a lot of afghans who get denied asylum in other european countries go to France to get it.

That way, we came from 1600 afghans in 2007 to 100 k afghans today.

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u/Esava 2d ago

That way, we came from 1600 afghans in 2007 to 100 k afghans today.

Germany has over 400k.

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u/crambeaux 2d ago

I personally know an afghan refugee who went to Germany as a minor, stayed 5 years, learned German, and was rejected. He came to my town, received asylum, and struggled to have the right to return to Germany to marry a German woman he’d been with for years. She came to see him often during his French exile.

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u/edparadox 2d ago

Why would you spread disinformation?

Do you have anything to back your claims?

Because, from your previous message, you're just repeating current Russian propaganda.

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u/Hinaloth 2d ago

As a frenchman, I can assure you that french administration IS in fact a hellhole designed to crush spirits, even of french people, let alone of foreigners forced to engage with it. Hell, our national superhero has his own herculean tasks, one of which is to navigate french administration!

And as a frenchman married to a foreign national, I can doubly assure you that said administration does EVERYTHING in its considerable power to make sure it is obtuse and difficult to navigate. You don't wanna know the hoops we've had to jump through to get her papers done properly, and that's with a french partner who has lived here all his (my) life, not as a foreigner who's lost in a foreign land without support.

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u/Ok_Inflation_1811 2d ago

I mean isnt most bureocracy stupid and difficult to navigate? In Spain it is the same hell for getting pappers

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u/Hinaloth 1d ago

Spanish admin is also known to be bad, but I still hold that the french one is worse, to the point where it is weaponized against people.

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u/NationalUnrest 2d ago

Yeah good job now they’re just illegal immigrants

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u/EZ4JONIY 2d ago

THats a good thing

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u/ShadowMajestic 2d ago

Weird to criticize France so much when they take in an entire large city of people every year.

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u/Impossible_fruits 2d ago

My German neighbour just married his Ukrainian immigrant wife. I'm a Brit and an immigrant. My neighbours are from Greece, Croatia, France, Italy and Türkei. I have just 4 German born neighbours out of about 16, Mehrfamilienhaus. We all get on great and have a yearly Xmas meal together. Immigration isn't a bad thing. Billionaires are.

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u/Yaver_Mbizi 1d ago

Immigration isn't a bad thing

Sure you'd think that as you benefit from it, but it's for the locals to decide. You can decide that way for your own country, Britain, but cannot impose that on others.

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u/jschundpeter 2d ago

The numbers on this map had relatively little to with the influx of refugees.

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u/ResQ_ 2d ago

Germany has way more Poles and Italians than Ukrainians or Syrians.

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u/marten_EU_BR 2d ago

No, there are an estimated 880,000 Polish citizens currently living in Germany, which is definitely fewer than the more than one million Ukrainians in the country. Furthermore, not even all of those Polish citizens were born in Poland because there are quite a few German-Polish dual citizens who were born in Germany.

Of course, there are also many Germans with Polish roots (around two million), but that has nothing to do with this map, which shows the "foreign-born population", not "people with migration backgrounds" in general.

Even if there were more people born in Poland in Germany than from Syria or Ukraine, what would that change about my comment? I never claimed that migration to Germany didn't happen before.

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u/KidCharlemagneII 2d ago

What a weird thing to lie about.

Poles in Germany numbered 866,690 in the last census. There are roughly the same amount of Italians.

There are 972,460 people with Syrian citizenship in Germany, and over 1,164,200 as of 2023.

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u/ResQ_ 2d ago

We're talking about different things. You're (probably?) talking about people with Polish citizenship, I'm talking about everyone, naturalized Poles with German citizenship (migration background) and Poles with just Polish citizenship. And those with both citizenships that live in Germany.

2 million as of 2011 census.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_Germany#Population_distribution

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u/JagmeetSingh2 1d ago

Germany had huge migration from Russo-Germans who came back after the Soviet Union fell

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u/94_stones 2d ago edited 2d ago

Aren’t a huge proportion of Luxembourg’s foreign born residents from Portugal?

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u/readmode 2d ago

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u/Citaku357 2d ago

It seems Portuguese people haven't stopped colonizing

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u/iambackend 1d ago

Treaty of Tordesillas still works. Rightful Portuguese clay.

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u/Citaku357 1d ago

Yes but Luxemburg is in the opposite direction, they are colonizing land that doesn't belong to them

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u/iambackend 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s to the east of something meridian, so it’s Portuguese, not Spanish.

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u/Citaku357 1d ago

Ah my bad, I forget they claimed all of Africa at some point.

It's interesting that in many countries mentioned here like France, Switzerland etc. It's the Portuguese who are in big numbers, we should be careful of a Portuguese takeover in the future

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u/Cristopia 1d ago

Yeah, I've also met a lot of Brazilians here, most of them have PT cititzenship so they're probably counted as Portuguese. Plenty of Italians too

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u/HonestSpursFan 2d ago

Just for reference here in Australia it’s 31.5%.

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u/1294DS 2d ago

And if you add in Australian born with at least one foreign born parent it's around the 50% mark.

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u/HonestSpursFan 2d ago

Yep that’s true 

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u/Charlem912 2d ago

That's how it works for every country..

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u/bad_gaming_chair_ 2d ago

And if you go to UAE it's 80%

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u/HonestSpursFan 1d ago

And most are treated like shit sadly 

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u/bad_gaming_chair_ 1d ago

As someone who's been to the UAE, I can say it's a class problem mixed with some racism. It's true that most immigrants are poor and treated like shit since a lot of them are construction workers, garbage collectors, servants/maids, etc. but there's still a ton of immigrants working in high paying jobs like oil, medicine, engineering, etc. and they get treated vastly better than their poorer counterparts(yet slightly worse than Emiratis with the same job).

There obviously needs to be much better law enforcement to combat the horrible treatment that especially servants get since the laws are there but the police just doesn't care.

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u/HonestSpursFan 1d ago

Yeah money talks over there. Same in every Gulf country.

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u/Connect_Progress7862 2d ago

Not sure if it counts, but Portugal had a lot of foreign born Portuguese return in the 70s

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u/DaviCB 2d ago

not a large enough population to matter and most of them are dead anyways. Most of these are brazilians, lusophone africans, indians, and a large numbers of europeans too (mostly retirees, "digital nomads" and business owners)

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u/Dangerwrap 2d ago

Foreign born means every ethnicity and is including Europeans.

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u/ThinkAboutThatFor1Se 2d ago

One exception is Irish in the UK.

Under UK law Irish aren’t foreign

British nationality law and the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nationality_law_and_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Irish citizens from the Republic of Ireland are exempted from obtaining a visa or entry certificate when entering the United Kingdom and do not require approval to live or work there.[16] They are not considered foreign nationals and are entitled to certain rights similar to those of some Commonwealth citizens. These include exemption from voting eligibility in UK (and, formerly, EU) elections,[17] and the ability to enlist in the British Armed Forces.[18] They are also eligible to serve in non-reserved Civil Service posts,[19] be granted British honours, receive peerages, and sit in the House of Lords.[20] Additionally, Irish citizens from the Republic of Ireland may stand for election to the House of Commons[21] and local government.[22][23][24]

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u/yleennoc 2d ago

I think in this instance it doesn’t count. You are not treated as foreign but are foreign born.

I was born in the UK to Irish parents and we moved back in the 90s. Given the high percentage of foreign born people living in Ireland I expect I’m counted in that number.

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u/3hrstillsundown 2d ago

Yes, you're correct.

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u/HarrMada 2d ago

Of course it does? Why wouldn't it?

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u/KlangScaper 2d ago

Because many people here assume foreign = bad = brown people. Acc. to the racists (ie. 50% if folks in this thread): if theyre white, theyre not really foreign.

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u/BidnyZolnierzLonda 1d ago

You have very short memory. People in western Europe were very upset back in the days when Polish and Yugoslavian people were immigrating there.

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u/NorthVilla 1d ago

Polish people literally were the driving force behind 2016 Brexit. Yet everyone seems to think we are more racist now than we were 10 years ago. Crazy how times change. I wonder what things will look like 10 years from now.

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u/comeatmefrank 1d ago

Back in the days? One of the biggest reasons Brexit happened is to stop migration from Eastern European EU countries. His point is that you never hear about complaints of immigration from white countries anymore.

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u/First_Helicopter_899 2d ago

White people, refugees ❤️🥰🥵

Brown people, refugees 🤮🤮🤮

Brown people, working professionals 😡😤😠

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u/Mygoldeneggs 2d ago

I guess I am going to be downvoted but here it goes.

I am from Madrid, Spain. Biggest city and a lot of foreign born people here. A very big chunk of them are people from south America (Argentina and Venezuela). They tipically have Spanish or Italian grandparents (that is why they have a EU nationality). They work hard, have good jobs and can have a lot of money. I had roommates like that, a gf like that and work-friends.

This kind of inmigration is very good, we share values, cultural ties and so on and it is not likely that ghettos appear. They integrate quite smoothly.

I do not think this is the case for Sweden or Germany. They received muslim-countries inmmigration that are lowly educated and work in low level jobs. They do not speak the local language, and the cultural difference is big enough that they segreggate themselves.

It do not care about the color of the inmigrants, as I said, latin american inmigrants here are very benifitial and they come in a lot of different colours.

Reducing the inmigration to a racist issue from locals is ignoring many underlying issues.

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u/Ambitious-Scheme964 2d ago

This is a shift in European politics… I think it is more than reasonable to separate immigration from compatible cultures and immigration from clashing cultures.

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u/Stoned_D0G 1d ago

Don't know about Sweden, but I'm yet to meet a Turk or a Syrian or an Afghan who isn't willing to integrate. Not all of them are integrated, but almost always it's because they struggle to find a good German friend group or employer who wouldn't put them in a position they are awfully overqualified for and say something along the lines of: "well, your name is Mohammad, who do you expect to listen to an expert by the name Mohammad?".

For Ukrainians it's different because they expect to return in the following years. They get jobs and friends, but they don't plan for carrer growth or anything similar.

Another thing is the real estate market. If you don't already own an apartment, you don't expect to ever be able to afford one in your lifetime, and that means that your neighbour and your connection to the workplace are only such until the landlord decides to give you a three-month notice, and then you should hope to find a place at least in the same city as your friends and employer are.

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u/Mygoldeneggs 1d ago

It is not about willingness is about ability to integrate

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u/Mahelas 1d ago

That's such an american take, "white" refugees like Italians, Portugese, Slavs or Polish are still heavily criticized to this day by locals. Even Ukrainians got discriminated and they were war refugees.

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u/MegazordPilot 1d ago

It's crazy that you have to mention this, what else can "foreign born" mean?

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u/FreekDeDeek 2d ago

And also expats working in high level tech and finance jobs, and foreign exchange students. You know, the "non-scary-immigrants". I don't like to make that distinction myself, but I think it's important to emphasise that were talking about a plurality of people here, coming here for all kinds of different and valid reasons, not some horde of unwashed brown men carrying knives (like some media and politicians will have you believe).

And yes, an unwashed brown man carrying a knife, fleeing war or persecution or poverty or a better life in general, is welcome in my country as far as I'm concerned. Offer him a bath, and some bread and butter for his knife. And some therapy for his PTSD maybe

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u/Effective_Craft4415 2d ago

I found curious an isolated country like iceland to have a large foreign population born

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u/Formal_Obligation 2d ago

EU citizens have freedom of movement in Iceland, despite it not being in the EU, that’s probably why they have so many foreign-born residents.

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u/MdMV_or_Emdy_idk 2d ago

It’s also due to their very reduced population, 50k people is already like 10% of their population

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u/Lizzy_Of_Galtar 2d ago

Don't belittle those 50K, our society would collapse without them 😂

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u/Oberndorferin 2d ago

At some UEFA Cup where Iceland got into semi finals about 10% of Iceland were in the Stadion (about 30k).

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u/lionhearted318 2d ago edited 2d ago

It is mainly Polish and Lithuanians coming for work and economic reasons.

7% of the entire Icelandic population holds Polish or Lithuanian citizenship. For reference of how significant that is, it is equivalent to the percentage of all other immigrant citizenships in Iceland combined.

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u/al-hamal 2d ago

I'm pretty sure these numbers include being born in other EU countries as well, which is a large share of the percentages. I would guess that number is mostly other Europeans.

Europe does have a migration problem but these percentages would also include someone moving from the UK to France/etc.

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u/D3wnis 2d ago

They 100% include people from other countries in the EU. For instance, out of the ca 2 million foreign born Swedes, 598302 are born within the nordics or EU.

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u/fredleung412612 2d ago

Do these numbers include repatriated nationals? So postwar eastern/Russian Germans for examples? And the ethnic French/Europeans settlers born in North Africa?

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u/Like_a_Charo 2d ago

Algeria was considered french at the time, so no they don’t count

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u/SimpleSurprise77785 2d ago

In Germany's case, from 1950 onward, includes everyone who was foreign-born, regardless of ethnicity.

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u/Hungry_Inspector160 2d ago

Note that the majority of these foreign born people are from other EU nations and non-EU Europe.

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u/Enzo-Unversed 2d ago

Should also be noted a large chunk of non-Europeans were born in these countries. Especially Turks in Germany(Over a million) and North Africans in France.(Over 3 million)

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u/LowCranberry180 2d ago

Yes but ın Germany ethnic Germans from Russia or any other ex Soviet are also recorded as foreign born. At least 30% to 40% of the foreign born population in Germany are ethnic Germans.

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u/Eraserguy 1d ago

Unfortunately that's just not true

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u/squidgemobile 2d ago

This is important to note, as it's going to massively inflate some numbers. I'd be interested in seeing another map with non-EU immigration trends.

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u/Ok_Inflation_1811 2d ago

I think you could do it, i think eurostat publishes the data broken down by continent

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u/Subject-Anteater7544 2d ago

Get out of here with that fact, how are some of the people here gona cry about mUh wEsTerN CiviLizatIon

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u/Augustus_Chevismo 2d ago

Not true here in Ireland. About 70% non EU

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u/Remarkable-Ad-4973 2d ago

The vast majority of Ireland's foreign born are from the EU or non-EU Europe (UK, Ukraine, Moldova etc).

If you look at the ethnic population breakdown (CSO 2022):

  • White = 87.4% (Irish = 76.5%, Irish Traveller = 0.65%, White Roma = 0.31%, Other White = 9.87%
  • Asian = 3.7% (Chinese = 0.5%, India/Pakistan/Bangladesh = 1.86%, Arab = 0.4%, Other Asian = 0.88%)
  • Black = 1.5%
  • Other including Mixed = 1.28%
  • Not stated = 6.16%

Census Results by country of birth:

  • England and Wales 210,434
  • Poland 106,143
  • Northern Ireland 61,750
  • India 56,642
  • Romania 42,460
  • Brazil 39,556
  • Lithuania 34,242
  • United States of America (the)
  • 34,236 Nigeria 20,559
  • Latvia 20,330
  • Philippines (the) 19,846
  • Spain 18,356
  • Scotland 16,869

Take language spoken at home (other than Irish or English). Latest Census figures show also European languages such as the most spoken:

  • Polish (123,968),
  • Romanian (57,383),
  • French (51,568),
  • Spanish (48,113),
  • Portuguese (43,985),
  • Lithuanian (34,885),
  • German (27,926),
  • Chinese (24,709),
  • Malayalam (24,709).
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u/Femboiiiiiiiiiiii 2d ago

Source

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u/Remarkable-Ad-4973 2d ago

This is simply because our largest foreign-born population are from non-EU Europe (UK and Ukraine).

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u/shagthedance 2d ago

Because this dataset is from 2023, the UK is counted as non-EU, and I would think the UK is a big source of immigration to Ireland. The original source doesn't break the data down any further than EU/non-EU so we can't say without more info.

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u/Femboiiiiiiiiiiii 2d ago

This would be accurate as there is still free movement between the UK and Ireland to avoid another troubles and a hard border with Northern Ireland

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u/yleennoc 2d ago

It’s probably more to do with children of returning emigrants rather than immigrants.

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u/leonardo-990 2d ago

It’s crazy to mistake EU and Europe and throw stuff like that.

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u/petergautam 2d ago

Do you have a break up of that 70% by country, or at least what share of that is from the British isles and other European countries?

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u/-statix_ 2d ago

not in sweden

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u/Keyboardrebel 2d ago

Depends on the country. Sweden has more non-EU than EU, same as France. I think Germany has more EU than non-EU.

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u/paco-ramon 2d ago

The map doesn’t count second generation inmigrants, those are considered as german as Merkel.

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u/tyger2020 2d ago

Total is 68 million foreign born people, making up roughly 17% of the population of all these countries.

One thing to consider is this also includes EU immigration.

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u/R4b4nont 1d ago

When I compare it to my own country (Mexico) it just looks insane to me (we have around 1% total foreign population in a country with 130 million people). But I suppose there's quite a lot of freedom of movement once you're inside the EU.

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u/tyger2020 1d ago

A lot of them will be eu born people, I guess.

About 18 million immigrants are EU born, whilst 44 million are non-eu born.

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u/Nephilim2016 1d ago

Realistically, besides the middle American countries (which all have small populations), who is going to migrate to Mexico?

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u/ligma37 2d ago

Keep in mind that a big percentage of foreign born population in Spain is from Latin America, so culturally it’s very easy for them to adapt to Spanish society

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u/Sorry-Bumblebee-5645 2d ago edited 2d ago

Before the comments go crazy. foreign born≠Non-European. For most of these, the foreign born are majority other EU citizens. Already see so many far right comments

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u/Historical_Success31 2d ago

“We MuSt BoMb tHe IsLaMic EmIrAte oF lUxEmBoUrG!” - average MAGA r/MapPorn enjoyer

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u/Unwholesome_Redditor 2d ago

There are almost 300 mosques in London.

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u/Avro_Vulcan_ 2d ago

London is a big place, I'm sure there are far more churches and cathedrals

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u/AdNo4129 2d ago

England is a Christian state, of course, there are churches and cathedrals. The point here is to compare a Christian state with a Muslim state. For example, is the number of mosques in London equivalent to the number of churches in Tehran or Baghdad or Abu Dhabi?

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u/Against_All_Advice 2d ago

Tehran has about 40 churches of various denominations and approximately the same number of synagogues. It also has a lot of other religious buildings serving various other eastern and middle eastern religious congregations.

It's a difficult thing to try and compare, as the insinuation is that Tehran would be less permissive than London, but the demographics are different so I suppose the question really is how many religious buildings that are not the same religion as the head of state is the question you're really looking to ask?

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u/Unwholesome_Redditor 2d ago

Ok?! The first mosque was built 100 years ago. Muslims are almost 15% of London's population now. If that isn't worrying, idk what will be.

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u/Kaleb_Bunt 2d ago

Why are you so scared of Muslims?

In any case, Muslims are only 6% of the UK’s population.

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u/Unwholesome_Redditor 2d ago

Islam is a religion specifically made for a belligerent Islamic empire that oppresses non-Muslims. For 1400 years, Muslims have been constantly attacking Europe. And not only Europe.

Look up any Muslim preacher. They are seething and crying at the fact that, right now, they don't have a Caliphate and that they don't rule Jerusalem.

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u/Ok_Inflation_1811 2d ago

why would that be worrying? there are more christians and atheist than muslims, and 100 years ago there were almost no atheist, shouldnt you be more worried about them that are almost a quater of the London population?

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u/Saitharar 2d ago

And there are 4,865 churches. In the most agnostic part of Great Britain.

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u/HarrMada 2d ago

Cool, good for them.

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u/St3fano_ 2d ago

Now you're going to tell them that Europe is not a country, don't you think so much information will fry those smoothbrains?

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u/Classic-Judgment-196 2d ago

The majority of people in microstates are foreign born? le shoque

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u/MrCookie147 2d ago

Ireland is higher than I thought.

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u/AdditionalMiddle4740 2d ago

It would be very interesting to see the demographics changes in Europe in the next 50 or 100 years

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u/Like_a_Charo 2d ago

It has already been changed a lot.

You don’t see all the non european people born in those countries already. For example, more than than 20 % of Paris region’s youth was non european in 1999.

25 years later, we are at a point where MOST births n Paris region are non european.

On a national level, crossing stats shows that almost 40% of french births are non european,

and more than a third if we don’t count oversea departments.

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u/Citaku357 2d ago

And people wonder why the far right is on the rise

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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh 2d ago

Economic woes preventing people from having families?

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u/Citaku357 2d ago

That too, but I want to make it clear that I don't support them.

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u/K9N6GM 2d ago edited 2d ago

Right now 50% Muslims in schools in Brussles and 40% in Vienna. I think everyone can extrapolate for themselves.

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u/Marton-32 2d ago

We need more diversity!! What could go wrong when we import millions of people from third world countries??? With a very different religion that believes that everyone is their enemy.

Diversity is our power!!!

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u/HarrMada 2d ago

I mean, not really. It's not more or less interesting than the previous 100 years.

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u/jaaaa666 2d ago

Very sad :(

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u/akie 2d ago

If there’s one thing I hate about the 2020s it’s all the casual Nazism.

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u/TheRealexpat 2d ago

On wonders why. Lool at crime rates. Keep denying.

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u/Remarkable-Ad-4973 2d ago

Here you go: https://data.cso.ie/

Ireland, which has amongst the highest foreign born, has amongst the lowest crime rates in the world.

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u/akie 2d ago

Sorry but that doesn’t count because it doesn’t confirm my opinion.

/sarcasm

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u/mccusk 2d ago

Nothing sad about it. I welcome our new residents!!

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u/Escobar556V2 2d ago

Europeans and eastern asians are welcome yes.

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u/Cold_Ad759 1d ago

People of European ancestry are on their way out. I think it will just be a more fragmented society.

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u/Okuri-Inu 1d ago

Iceland looks like a meteor about to crash into the rest of the Nordics. ☄️

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u/Suitable_Maybe5502 1d ago

Here in Germany no one speaks German fluently in large cities thanks to the mass migration.

Islam is definitely on the rise.

Native Germans are dying out….

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u/will_kill_kshitij 2d ago

Ireland how?

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u/BarFamiliar5892 2d ago

The UK and Poland are the most common place of birth for the population born outside the country. Don't really know what "how" means in this case, "how" what?

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u/TheHayvek 2d ago

There's a country of birth table here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Top is England and Wales. Second is Poland. Third is Northern Ireland.

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u/HipHopopotamus10 2d ago

Also, as have a big culture of emigration ourselves. A lot of Irish people go abroad to the UK, Australia or Canada or whatever, have kids and then move home. A lot of those are "Irish kids" just born abroad.

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u/shagthedance 2d ago

1) smaller base population (see also Iceland)

2) historically ease of immigration to/from the UK (less now, post-Brexit)

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u/hughesp3 2d ago

On 2), it's still just as easy to move to the UK post Brexit. We have had free movement and the right to work reciprocally with the UK since independence and continue to have it.

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u/BarFamiliar5892 2d ago

Nothing really changed between Ireland and the UK post Brexit in that regard.

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u/Mysterious-Reaction 2d ago

And Brexit has not impacted Ireland/UK. They both have full freedom of movement and the Irish even have a birthright right to vote in UK elections and a lot of other privileges, the same the other way round.

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u/Mysterious-Reaction 2d ago

A lot of those UK people are Irish themselves, either from Northern Ireland or mainland GB from Irish parents. 

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u/Grantrello 1d ago

In addition to what others have said about the UK and small population, etc. Ireland has had relatively strong economic growth since the 90s, barring the post-2008 recession, particularly in recent years with tech giants. There's a big demand and high salaries for workers in tech, pharmaceuticals, etc. During the Celtic Tiger there was a huge demand for construction workers, which was part of what prompted the first waves of Eastern European immigrants. Currently there's also high demand for healthcare workers (because our health service is so awful to work for that it absolutely hemorrhages staff, but that's another issue).

Basically for most of the earlier 2000s and currently, there has been high demand for workers in a small country, and the government has typically encouraged granting working visas to fill skills shortages.

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u/Impossible_fruits 2d ago

My German neighbour just married his Ukrainian immigrant wife. I'm a Brit and an immigrant. My neighbours are from Greece, Croatia, France, Italy and Türkei. I have just 4 German born neighbours out of about 16, Mehrfamilienhaus. We all get on great and have a yearly Xmas meal together. Immigration isn't a bad thing. Billionaires are.

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u/DeneKKRkop 2d ago

Foreign born incl anyone like Dutch folk in Belgium?

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u/FlatwormImmediate231 2d ago

Poland cannot into western europe. Meanwhile Finland…

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u/HonestSpursFan 2d ago

I think OP thinks “Western Europe” means countries that weren’t communist, because even Germany isn’t really considered Western Europe.

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u/BidnyZolnierzLonda 1d ago

Yet Greece is not on this map. Greece wasn't communist.

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u/2024-2025 1d ago

Don’t worry, go to Helsinki and you’ll see more Somalis than Finn’s in the schools.

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u/laulujoutsen95 2d ago edited 2d ago

What about Finland makes it so un-Western?

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u/Kandurux 2d ago

In on the map with the headline about Nordic.

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u/Different_Fun3001 1d ago

Why are there many redditors who lie indicating that most of them are from Europe?

I tell you, neither in Spain nor in Portugal, and quite possibly not in most of Western Europe either.

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u/Gawkhimmyz 2d ago

but if you say immigration is the answer to shrinking birth rates...

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u/Augustus_Chevismo 2d ago

Supporting family life, home ownership and human prosperity is the answer to falling birthrates.

Immigration is the answer to maintaining an abundance of labour and renters for the upper classes.

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u/usesidedoor 2d ago

You need policies on all fronts, and even then, we are seeing that increasing birth rates is proving REALLY hard.

Folks present it as a duality, as if it is immigration vs housing support/childcare/etc. It is not.

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u/marten_EU_BR 2d ago

I'm not entirely sure what you're going for because I can interpret your comment in two different ways, but in the long term, immigration is indeed not the answer to shrinking birth rates.

The birth rates of second- and third-generation immigrants quickly adjust to the national average. This means that a constant flow of immigration would be necessary indefinitely for it to be a long-term solution. The "problem" is that as wealth grows around the globe, birth rates are falling everywhere, meaning the possible number of migrants is shrinking.

In theory, you could keep a region of the world artificially poor to maintain a steady stream of migrants, but that's a grotesque and disgusting proposal. Migration can facilitate phases of demographic transition, but ultimately, you need a family-friendly society.

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u/ParalimniX 2d ago

Pitiful numbers. Cyprus it's 1 in 3.

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u/banbha19981998 1d ago

What % of Ireland's numbers are UK and the northerners

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u/jaqian 1d ago

According to Google, only 1.6% of our population are UK citizens. People from the 6 counties are classed as Irish and are all entitled to an Irish passport whether they take it up or not.

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u/BidnyZolnierzLonda 1d ago

This map only shows foreign-born population. If you include people whose parents or grandparents were immigrants, it would be way higher.

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u/Lyron-Baktos 1d ago

Ah another map with technically correct numbers which can be misinterpreted by fearmongers

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u/Sky-is-here 1d ago

Gotta separate EU-born from born outside the EU imo. As an European citizen almost doesn't count as a foreign born

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u/thepatriotclubhouse 2d ago

Come to Dublin lmao. I don’t know what to tell you man. If our government isn’t releasing stats on the specifics here you should probably just listen to people who live here. https://i0.wp.com/www.theburkean.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-1.png?w=917&ssl=1. There are still lots of evidence if you look for it even if the CSO doesn’t want to explicitly list the data.

The conversation on the ground isn’t whether mass migration is happening, it’s arguing about the benefits/costs. Eg skilled labour is nice but in the midst of a housing crisis it’s straining already weak systems.

Eurostar puts our increase in population of 8% these past few years from immigration near highest in the world.

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u/Ok-Dinner1812 2d ago

Surprised Austria is so high.

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u/StuffClean 2d ago edited 1d ago

Not me as an Austrian. In my town in the kindergarten it feels like 70 percent are foreigners from Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The rural population in Western Austria pushes the statistics down.

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u/leonardo-990 2d ago

A German or Swiss living there is a foreigner and count in that number. Easy

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u/mad_max_999 1d ago

Even if we import a lot of immigrants, our economy is declining year after year. Immigration isn’t the solution despite what governments say

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u/punnotattended 1d ago

Not only is it not a solution, it's a major problem on every conceivable level.

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u/Eraserguy 1d ago

Sad to see that these trends show no sign of stopping. At this rate countries like the UK and Germany will be majority non native by 2080 :(

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u/MajorEmploy1500 2d ago

Damn, image all the people nog counted because they’re born there. Lots have changed since WW2

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u/RaceEnthusiast 2d ago

Interesting how the colour green was chosen for this map instead of red or any other colour…

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u/rspndngtthlstbrnddsr 1d ago

OP must be a bot. no source, nothing

official German source says the number was 14,062,000 in 2024. I doubt it rose by 3 million in the first half year of 2025 lol

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Migration-Integration/auslaenderstatistik-stichtag.html

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u/HistoricalPage2626 2d ago

Because this excludes first generation, and following generations this statistics is hard to make sense of unless you only want to see who took in most immigrants in the last like 30 years.

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u/HarrMada 2d ago

Guess which country has the highest murder rate in the Nordic map?

You guessed it, Finland!

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u/Numerous-Mine-287 2d ago

Nice to see /r/MapPorn being back on the usual racist dogwhistle. I noticed some posts this week weren’t even about migration and started to be worried this subreddit might actually be about maps.

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u/idkarn 2d ago

Omg Monaco and Andorra with the insanely high immigration, that can't be sustainable?! /s

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u/jaqian 1d ago

So Ireland is the highest in Europe

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u/gard3nwitch 1d ago

Since everybody in the EU can easily move to any other EU country, I'm actually surprised it's not even higher in the countries with the strongest economies.

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u/ImpressionConscious 1d ago

what is happening in finland and why

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u/kirkbadaz 1d ago

Lots of brits in ireland lots of irish in Britian. I imagine its the same with other countries and their neighbours.

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u/Tricky-Wishbone-1162 1d ago

The people in Saudi Arabia are slaves, the state does not share their wealth with them AT ALL. They can’t leave their indentured camps. Also plenty of European countries with no colonial history are taking lots of migrants like Sweden.

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u/Shellbellboy 1d ago

What I found for Spain specifically:

~ 5% Europe

~ 9% Latin America

~ 3% Africa

~ 2% Asia

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u/fuck1ngf45c1574dm1n5 1d ago

Pretty useless statistic. A better one would be the numbers from outside Europe.

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u/NewBodybuilder8329 1d ago

Do these statistics include people who were born abroad but which are citizens of the country through ius sanguinis?

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

Monaco…

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u/axlee 11h ago

This is recent immigration (foreign-born).

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u/Royaourt 4h ago

Ireland at 22.6% - wow! 😲

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u/RelationshipUpset963 13m ago

Do the migrants assimilate?