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Five Biggest Immigrant Groups by Country #2

Below are another 10 countries. Name the country of origin for the five biggest foreign born populations in each of the following.

Whole Series: 1, 2 and 3
Source: UN (2017)
Quiz by relessness
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Last updated: March 11, 2019
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First submittedSeptember 29, 2014
Times taken51,442
Average score61.1%
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Argentina
Paraguay
Bolivia
Chile
Peru
Italy
 
Canada
China
United Kingdom
India
Philippines
United States
Spain
Morocco
Romania
Ecuador
Colombia
United Kingdom
 
New Zealand
United Kingdom
China
India
Australia
South Africa
Mexico
United States
Guatemala
Spain
Colombia
Argentina
 
Qatar
India
Egypt
Bangladesh
Nepal
Philippines
Italy
Romania
Albania
Morocco
Ukraine
Germany
 
Sweden
Finland
Iraq
Syria
Poland
Iran
Ireland
United Kingdom
Poland
Lithuania
United States
Latvia
 
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Mozambique
Lesotho
Namibia
United Kingdom
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2014
Would have gotten all of these with a bit more time... but good quiz as is.
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Level 42
Jun 15, 2019
Because you would have guessed every country in the world?!
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Level 82
Jun 15, 2019
No. My best time on the countries of the world quiz is 9 minutes. My high score on this is 33. I'm sure I could have aced it with another 30 seconds or so. But like I said, it's fine as is.
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Level 75
Sep 29, 2014
So, does no-one from the US want to emigrate to Canada, or won't the Canadians let them in? Please include your nationality with your answer to allow for possible answer bias!
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Level 47
Sep 29, 2014
I was surprised by this too, but they were 7th on the list. I guess that there isn't that much difference between the USA and Canada in terms of quality of life, compared to the other on the list, so there's a lower incentive to move.
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Level 67
Mar 17, 2020
Yeah Canadian healthcare is notorious for its wait time, and Americans really don't want to have to experience that, although Canada still is a really nice country, just not a reason to move out of America.
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Level 75
Nov 13, 2014
I'm from the US and I've been told that Canada doesn't make immigration easy - you pretty much have to prove you are healthy and can produce a good income. Personally, I think it's a beautiful country, but too cold for me.
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Level 74
Jan 20, 2015
According to Wikipedia: "A 2014 sociological study concluded that: 'Australia and Canada are the most receptive to immigration among western nations'." Not only that, but when it comes to refugee claims, Canada does not discriminate based on nationality -- Canada will accept refugee applicants of any nationality (so for example, you can make a refugee claim regardless if you are from the US, Rwanda or anywhere). According to 2011 stats on Wikipedia, US immigrants are listed as 4th. /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Canada> For the year of 2011, here are the stats (Country of origin, number of individuals admitted, percentage of total) 1) Philippines 34,991 (14.1%) 2) China 28,696 (11.5%) 3) India 24,965 (10%) 4) United States 8,829 (3.5%) 5) Iran 6,840 (2.7%) [BTW I'm Canadian.] Not to say that good income doesn't help immigrating to Canada, like many countries. And there are certainly some crappy aspects of our immigration policy to be sure. But not really what you've pointed out.
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Level 74
Jan 20, 2015
Oh, and contrary to American legend, the winters are warmer than lots of the USA in Canadian cities like Vancouver and Victoria :P Think Amsterdam, Seattle, London climate. Today was 13 degrees C in Vancouver and Victoria (that's over 50 degrees F).
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Level 82
May 16, 2015
It's very cold (yes, Toronto is warmer than Fargo, but it's still not Miami and nowhere in Canada is)... there's a reason 90+% of Canada's population is huddled along the southern border with the US. And Americans do not migrate anywhere in large numbers because most of them are perfectly happy living in the United States. Though I personally know a couple Americans who have moved north, most don't see a point. If they're going to make an effort to immigrate somewhere they would choose to go somewhere else.
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Level 82
May 16, 2015
Actually... let me amend this comment.

This quiz, also by reless, which I had forgotten existed, is interesting. It shows that Canada is actually the #1 destination for American expats easily beating out most of the rest of the world, and Mexico does not even make the top 20.

So, I supposed that the reason is not so much that Americans don't want to go to Canada, as it is nobody wants to go to Mexico. Canada is a much more desirable destination for other people from around the world and those people immigrate in numbers larger than Americans, pushing the USA out of the top 5.

Also, it's cold.

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Level 92
Mar 11, 2019
Actually it seems according to this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_diaspora based on unofficial state dept figures) there are around 4 times the number of US citizens abroad than shown in relessness' quiz, and Mexico is number one. While 9M is certainly still a minority it is clear that there is a lot of moving going on. Also the wiki page suggests some link keeping people tied to the US is due to tax regulations. Tax is probably one issue but I'd expect there would be many other factors.
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Level 82
Jun 15, 2019
Might depend on the year, kogatora. For a while a lot of immigrants from Mexico in the United States were going back.
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Level 71
Jan 5, 2022
I actually wouldn't be surprised if there were more Canadians coming to the US than Americans going to Canada. As a college student, I've met a lot of professors, grad students, etc. who are from Canada. Also, I have a cousin in Canada who struggled for a while to get into med school, not because he was a bad student but quite simply because there aren't many med schools in Canada. The one advantage the US has over Canada is higher education--we quite simply have way more universities and educational centers available. Not that this is Canada's fault given their smaller population, but I definitely think academia and graduate degrees are big factors that draw Canadians to the US.
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Level 35
Oct 2, 2014
Why are Italians moving to Argentina?!
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Level 54
Nov 3, 2018
They are not! Most of Italian population in Argentina are elders that came until the 1960's. From 1880 and 1960 almost 3 million Italians came to Argentina, and so there are nowadays more than 20 million Argentines with Italian roots. 2020 census will certainly show that Venezuelans have become the 3rd largest foreign community.
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Level 59
Apr 28, 2023
Also consider it requires the people to be foreign born, not just of a different nationality, so those who remained after their ancestors moved don’t count. More likely is A: Italians who returned to Italy going back to Argentina, and B: Italians moving because of the already existing community in the area.
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Level 40
Jun 17, 2019
same thing in brazil and uruguay
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Level 71
Jan 5, 2022
There's a famous Italian Argentine face a lot of people might recognize... Pope Francis :)
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Level 35
Mar 31, 2015
Wow none of Qatar's land or sea neighbors...
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Level 82
May 16, 2015
India's not that far away and if you've ever visited any of these small Gulf states this result would not surprise you at all. Sometimes in Dubai you feel like you're in India or Pakistan.
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Level 69
Jul 9, 2019
Aren’t all of Qatar’s immigrants basically indentured servants, though?
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Level 82
Apr 25, 2020
Not exactly
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Level 74
Feb 13, 2017
Nice work, lots of fun
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Level 63
Feb 6, 2018
It takes a while to realise that, for example "Portugal" as an answer for immigrants to Spain, are actually pointless guesses, since they are so close already, the need to legally immigrate is probably pointless.
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Level 82
Mar 12, 2019
More importantly the borders are open, it's not just proximity.
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Level 37
Mar 23, 2018
I'm really surprised that Argentina doesn't have more immigrants from Germany.
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Level 63
Mar 14, 2019
Why? Are you one of those "Hitler fled to Argentina" conspirators? :D
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Level 74
Mar 17, 2019
Conspirator? Did you mean to ask if devantilya is a conspiracy theorist? Unlike Hitler who offed himself in his bunker, at least 300 Nazi war criminals escaped to Argentina and other places after the war via 'ratlines.' Adolf Eichmann comes to mind. Such smuggling was actively facilitated by Juan Peron and the Vatican. There were ratlines for Italian fascists and Vichy collaborators as well. There are some excellent historiographies tracing this stuff if you are interested. The Argentine government wasn't too crazy about anybody getting extradited either. (Oh, and lest we non-Argentinians feel too smug, they certainly weren't the only country to welcome Nazis postwar, e.g. the USSR and USA.)
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Level 54
Nov 14, 2020
NASA was basically built by imported Nazi scientists.
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Level 76
Apr 16, 2018
You know you're f*cked when you start guessing Vatican City and San Marino for Italy...
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Level 79
Mar 12, 2019
I did too...
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Level 86
Mar 12, 2019
I guessed Nepal but not Spain . . .
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Level 68
Sep 3, 2020
Didn't miss Spain but missed a few other rather obvious answers (e.g. Finland for Sweden or Philippines for Qatar). Only got Nepal because I talked to a nepalese salesman in the Nike Store at the Dubai Mall last year. Remembered him as I was quite surprised about his origin (Even though it borders India and is close to Pakistan and Bangladesh where a lot of workers in the Middle East come from).
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Level 79
Mar 12, 2019
Should I or should I not be surprised about Sweden?
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Level 63
Mar 14, 2019
I was.
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Level 74
May 23, 2019
I wasn't. I don't watch mainstream news -- just news on the internet where you are actually able to find facts and it's sad to see such a beautiful country have so many no-go zones.
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Level 49
Mar 14, 2019
I got an "immigrate to Canada, we will help you" ad on top of this quiz :D
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Level 17
May 15, 2019
lol, only got all of Argentina right based on who they talk trash about....
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Level 74
Jun 15, 2019
i don't know why i'm so bad at this
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Level 83
Mar 29, 2020
In the Spain quiz Romania is in the top spot, but in this one Morocco comes before Romania. You might want to update one of them.
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Level 41
May 30, 2020
Why is everyone from the middle east moving to sweden?
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Level 68
Sep 3, 2020
Well, people from Iran, Iraq and Syria aren't everyone from the middle east, but most of them are fleeing from war in the past years (Iraq, Syria) or from dictatorship in Iran. Sweden (like e.g. Germany) is a quite popular destination for them.
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Level 72
Jan 3, 2021
How could bitty little Lesotho provide the third-most immigrants to South Africa?
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Level 75
May 5, 2021
Very interesting quiz, but quite a few sad stories buried in there too.
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Level 63
Nov 9, 2022
Surprised Germany wasn't an answer for Argentina... for... reasons.
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Level 68
Jul 26, 2023
Not even in the top 20.