Talk:List of countries by foreign-born population

message: The UN data is inconsistent with many sources. Many of the notes of 2005 already point that out. Just copy them. -- Nic Roets (talk) 07:36, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please copy the notes from 2005 

message: The UK being between France & Germany in the table, & all being within 10%-20% means these three countries should be the same colour. The map however makes it appear like the percentage of Britain's population is made up of fewer migrants when this is not the case.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.222.79.190 (talk) 03:33, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The map has not been updated to reflect the new data Nic Roets (talk) 11:06, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

text: the wrong map of russia. where is crimea?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rolltheblunt (talk • contribs) 11:37, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map is incorrect 

message: 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)
thread_title: UAE

message: 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)
thread_title: Wrong signs

message: 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)
thread_title:  Immigrants to Sweden 

message: --Bezuidenhout (talk)I think south africa is a bit out of date as there are officialy at least 3 million immigrants from zimbabwe alone(bbc) and there are deffinatley more from mozambique.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)
replies: text: Spot on B. During the 2001 census I interviewed my domestic servant who said she was born in SA. Later I found out she in fact comes from Zimbabwe and was fearful of being sent back. So unless Stats SA and the UN did a good job (doubtful), there is bound to be massive under reporting. I think the Economist reported that a Zimbabwean makes 6 times more and has much greater political freedom in SA than back home. So SA should be much much higher on this list than other countries where the pressures are not as great. -- Nic Roets (talk) 19:00, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

text: During to the 2001 census, approximately 1 million people reported that they were not born in SA.   -- Nic Roets (talk) 11:21, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Africa 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Taiwan 

message: There are millions of foreign born citizens and immigrants in Turkey. 1.5 million is very low estimate. Only Yugoslavia and Bulgaria expelled more than one million Muslims. And there are Iraqis, Armenians, Moldavian, Georgians, Russians.    —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.140.236.55 (talk) 09:47, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turkey 

message: I find it awfully hard to believe that there are only 156,000 immigrants in the Dominican Republic.  There must be more than that from Haiti alone. Funnyhat (talk) 05:12, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dominican Republic 

message: A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries.  Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 11:16, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New Discussion

message: Most articles on Wikipedia (e.g. the ones for Monaco, Demographics of Monaco etc) state that only 15-16% of the population are native Monegasques. This article presents a much larger number. Any reasons for the discrepancy?Avman89 (talk) 19:14, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This article says that, based on UN numbers, 70.11% of the residents of Monaco was born outside the country. So 30 % was born inside the country. The difference between 15% and 30% can be due to a number of factors, including definition (does being born in Monaco make you Monegasque ?), how the number was obtained (interview a statistical sample like a census vs. official government records) and base year combined with extrapolation. To be within 15% is quite good, considering how open the borders are and how little resources will be allocated to researching the demographics of such a small country. -- Nic Roets (talk) 21:17, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Being born in Monaco does not make you Monegasque, that's where the discrepancy comes from. 30% of the population were born in Monaco, but only half of them are citizens.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.57.78.10 (talk) 20:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monaco 

message: Canada has a population of only about 34 000 000 people, but we are listed as having 38 000 000 immigrants. It also says that those 38 mil. are 12.81% of the country's population which would make Canada's population 300 million. 
Yours trully Railroader 96 20:07, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The table lists a number of 6.2 million immigrants and says that is 18.76% of the population. The table doesn't give any number for the total population but if you do the maths you arrive at about 33 million. Where are the numbers you are referring to? --EnOreg (talk) 09:55, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

text: Oh, now I see. You are commenting on a vandalized version of the article that has been reverted in the meantime. --EnOreg (talk) 12:53, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada 

message: By popular demand again the appeal: Don't update individual numbers! To keep the numbers comparable they all must be from the same year. Update all (based on a new study) or nothing.
If you have a reliable source for a new number for an individual country you can add a comment in the Notes-column, mentioning the number and referencing the source. However, don't update the numbers in the other columns unless you update all of them based on a new, consistent UN study. The lemma has 2005 in it for a reason.
Thank you, --EnOreg (talk) 19:58, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't update individual numbers! 

message: The idea of 45.38 percent of the current (or 2005) population of Gaza and the West Bank being born outside of said territories is definitely overblown by at least a factor of 10. There has been no immigration to these territories to speak of since 1949. I recommend deleting, unless someone can get reality figures from a serious source.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.72.9.174 (talk) 22:58, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Nah, as these numbers come from a reliable source, i.e., the UN it works the other way around: You find a reliable source making your doubts credible. Then you can voice them in a footnote to the Palestine entry. --EnOreg (talk) 11:38, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

text: Political ranting aside, this is indeed a very interesting clarification. Thanks for improving the article with this information. Cheers, --EnOreg (talk) 20:27, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palestinian Territories 

message: In 2010, it was estimated that 961,121 people in Mexico are immigrants by INEGI. Many from the U.S., Central America or the Caribbean.
http://www.inegi.org.mx/inegi/contenidos/espanol/prensa/contenidos/Articulos/sociodemograficas/nacidosenotropais.pdf
--GuyWithoutAUsername (talk) 22:28, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mexico needs to be updated 

message: having 1% of immigrants in a country with 100 humans is different from having  1% of immigrants on a country with 123456 humans  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.78.195.79 (talk) 13:01, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This list could have some sort of immigrant % related to population number 

message: :Panama only 156000?, Only Colmbians are more than 200000, there are also a lot of Venezuelans, Dominicans, Haitian, Central Americans, Chineses, Ecuadorians, etc, there must be at least half a million inmigrants or maybe more.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.73.67.5 (talk) 14:25, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Panama 

message: Nowhere in the article does it indicate what the numbers represent.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.168.192.222 (talk) 13:11, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are these numbers percentages?  Millions?