Talk:List of countries by immigrant population

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[edit] Shouldn't the USA list around 100%?

After backing out the Native American population (less than 10%, I believe) shouldn't all current citizens be counted as immigrants? Does this table only mean "recent" imigrants? Nearly everyone in America today traces their ancestry to Europe, Africa, Asia, et cetera? Does anyone else see it this way? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.40.160.154 (talk) 11:24, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Are you really serious? Immigrant is a person who lives in a country where the person was not born. If you are born in the Unites States, you are not an immigrant, but an American.
Most countries have experienced immigration waves going back thousands of years, it would be near impossible to define the exact original native population as a percentage, you could only arrive at a rough estimate. What exactly is a Native American, all the waves of colonists from the siberian-alaska land bridge or only the first wave, pure blooded Native Americans or mixed blooded. Perhaps, you would define a Native American as having certain racial characteristics but if you applied that same logic to the United Kingdom, for example, you may decide that only people with red hair and green eyes or people with blood type O are true natives and the rest are immigrants. It would be very controversial and again nearly impossible to arrive at anything other than a rough estimate of numbers. All countries, regardless of their current policies on immigration, would be found to have around 90 to 100 percent immigrant population, except perhaps Iceland. If, you want exact percentages you have to limit yourself to recent history.

Please, go to school. Opinoso (talk) 16:50, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No, but England should list a lot more

5,408,000? Are you joking?!

There are approximately ONE MILLION immigrants in England JUST FROM BANGLADESH ALONE. About half of Poland lives in England, and the rest are from all over Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Japan, Africa, and in smaller numbers from North America and Latin America. England's immigration situation constitutes the worst humanitarian crisis in the World. By percentage there can be no doubt that England has the highest percentage to population, and on quantity can only be beaten by the US. And since 9/11 and the US border closing, all the traffic is redirecting to England. People don't learn German in school. They learn English. So when they emigrate, they go to England. Although Germany's situation is also horrendous - mainly because of the Polish and Turkish immigrants, whereas England is the terminus of the entire global immigration trail. Presumably this figure is those who have been given British passports, not the number of immigrants in England, which exceeds 18 million. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.65.242.154 (talk) 10:12, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] UAE

How do immigrants in UAE make up more than 100 % of the population? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.173.88.37 (talk • contribs)

Good catch, Koavf added those columns by hand from this source. Probably a typo. --Van helsing 08:14, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong signs

I'm thinking all of the higher than signs (>) in the Percentage of total number of immigrants in the world column, should be lower than signs (<).

Ex. Nepal: (819000/186579300)*100= 0.44, thus <0.5%. Matthijs Triep 04:17, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Sorting errors

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The table sorts alphabetically, not numerically (1000 is ranked lower than 9, because the first digit is lower). I've tried to play about with the code along the lines described in Help:Sorting, but without success. Can anyone help? Matt 07:43, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

First, it's not really CSS… You just have to know how this specific javascript sorting code works. Unfortunately, Help:Sorting is a copy of Meta page and it describes heavily modified Meta version of sorting script (I'm trying to fix that).
The most important thing is: whenever you click on the sorting icon, the script looks at the first non-empty cell which is on top at the moment, if it's a number then the whole column will be sorted numerically. So the solution is to remove "-" in the Western Sahara row (leaving empty cells).
Unfortunately I'm not sure what could be done for the the 4th column ("Percentage of total number"), it seems like you can't keep < and still sort it correctly ∴ Alex Smotrov 15:14, 15 August 2007 (UTC)


IMMEGRANTS TO SWEDEN

I dont know how many precent of the swedish population is from other countries but its definetly NOT 12/100.(maybe, if you count finland-sweden immegrants? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.233.10.135 (talk) 18:51, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South Africa

--Bezuidenhout (talk)I think south africa is a bit out of date as there are officialy at least 3 million immigrants from zimbabwe alone(bbc) and there are deffinatley more from mozambique. —Preceding comment was added at 15:11, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Taiwan

What about Taiwan? It has a non-gray color on the map, but isn't listed in the table. If it should be counted under China, then we should say so. 71.131.194.193 (talk) 20:46, 1 June 2008 (UTC)