IMPORTANT NOTE: The terms "expats" and "immigrants" are sometimes used and understood differently in different countries. We have followed the terminology used by the UK's "Immigration Advice Service": "The basic definition of an immigrant is someone who travels to a foreign country with the intention of settling there permanently." Therefore, in this video, the terms "expats" and "immigrants" have been used interchangeably, and are completely devoid of any political or racial meaning.

@mauriceoreilly9955

2 ай бұрын

It seems high time to discontinue the use of the term "expat". This term normally carries an implied notion of social (rather than political or racial) privilege. "Immigrant" is surely the appropriate term to use throughout. "Expat" is anachronistic and has little place in thoughtful discussion of social and political matters. Nonetheless, your video is most interesting.

@davidround8438

Ай бұрын

Some people are always looking to take offence these days. However, immigrant and expat have different meanings. An immigrant is someone who moves to another country with a view to staying. An expat is someone living in another country, usually on business or for a long holiday after retirement. They retain all links with their home country and intend to return. There are no racial implications whatsoever.

@antoineolivier1287

Ай бұрын

@@davidround8438 Disagree. I'm from a popular tourist destination especially for Brits. Even those who have permanently moved here, and cut almost all ties with the UK, and I know many, still call themselves "expats", while almost all the other nationalities are "immigrants". No English is ever an "immigrant" in their minds.

No wonder the big part of immigrants to London shows the bad developments recently, Muslims of course!

@virtual30

2 ай бұрын

True is even in Belgium, France , Germany , Sweden and The Netherlands

somehow i was expecting France, Germany and the Netherlands but totally forgot about microstates and makes sense now! you all are so underrrated keep up the good work 🤗

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@giccuyamax3605 Hi! Germany is in eleventh place, tied with Latvia. In fact, if you look at absolute numbers rather than percentages, Germany is the European country with the highest number of expats. But since it is also the European country with the highest number of inhabitants (after Russia, which is however a transcontinental country), it is "only" in eleventh place in this ranking. Have a nice day! 🤗

@MomoLouis-zc3ud

2 ай бұрын

That’s because France, Germany, and the Netherlands are actually Rude countries. But France and Germany are honest countries. But every single video, what I can find about the Netherlands seems always perfect without any flaws and that is a huge red flag

@RealConstructor

2 ай бұрын

It is also that in these countries refugees and migrants can get citizenship more easily. In my country after 5 years, and you don’t even have to work to earn citizenship. And if you count in second generation refugees, they are in the top 10 for sure, maybe top five. In other countries refugees and migrant workers have to leave the country after an amount of time because their job ended (like Switzerland) or the discrimination is too immense.

please write the numbers on the screen. it's much easier to follow this way.

@AmazingEuropeChannel

Ай бұрын

Hi! Thank you for your valuable advice! Have a great day! 😊

@jammmy30

3 күн бұрын

@@AmazingEuropeChannelI totally agree - numbers in big font, on the screen plz

And Germany, Sweden, Netherlands?

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

Hi! According to the European Migration Atlas, Sweden has 8.5% of its population as migrants. The Netherlands has 7.1%. As for Germany, it is 13.1% (tied with Latvia). Germany and Latvia would be in eleventh place in this ranking. In reality, Germany is the European country with the largest number of immigrants, but when compared to the number of inhabitants, it ranks eleventh. Have a great day!

Thank you for this video

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

You forgot a lot of countries. Sweden Germany and Netherlands have huge numbers

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

Hi! According to the European Migration Atlas, Sweden has 8.5% of its population as migrants. The Netherlands has 7.1%. As for Germany, it is 13.1% (tied with Latvia). Germany and Latvia would be in eleventh place in this ranking. In reality, Germany is the European country with the largest number of immigrants, but when compared to the number of inhabitants, it ranks eleventh. Have a great day!

@cybersarge6891

2 ай бұрын

Wrong, 20% of the population in Sweden are immigrants and 8.1% are muslims ​@@AmazingEuropeChannel

@erikedstrom2710

2 ай бұрын

@@AmazingEuropeChannel That is so strange. In Swedish government statistics it says 20%.

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

Hi! Thank you for telling us this data. However, we assure you that the European Migration Atlas states exactly 8.5% 🤷🏻‍♂️ You can easily check by searching on Google. Surely you will understand that we at Amazing Europe cannot say whether the Atlas or the Swedish government is correct 🤷🏻‍♂️

@jonasedfeldt1127

Ай бұрын

I thing the European Migration Atlas need to update it's databases asap. Sweden was at 8,5 % more than twenty years ago!

The north part of Cyprus is not Turkish territory but an illegally occupied by Turkish military forces territory. There are a few UN resolutions about it if you do not know already. So authors of this video please correct.

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@andyhadjivasiliou Hi! You're absolutely right. To summarize the situation in a few words, we wrote that the northern part of Cyprus is Turkish territory, but we realized that this can be misleading. We were aware of the sad situation in Northern Cyprus, but in fact, the way we said it in the video could be misunderstood by someone who is not familiar with the situation. Thank you very much for the clarification! 🙏 Have a great day.

@andyhadjivasiliou

2 ай бұрын

@@AmazingEuropeChannel Will you re edit the video then?

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@andyhadjivasiliou We have already done that. KZread will make the change visible in a few hours. Thanks again for reporting it! 😊

You didn't say how many Muslims emigrated to the Vatican.

@heniakonas9439

Ай бұрын

The same as Christians to Mecca.

This list is so misleading. Percentages have to be looked upon carefully. Most of these countries are tiny with very low population . When you look at these numbers you would think they're so diverse when in reality they're not.

That minute countries have large immigrant populations is obvious, some were even carved out from other nations. The only large country here was the UK, which makes this video somewhat suspect, in my opinion.

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@newguy8222 Hi! Thanks for sharing your opinion. We think the situation is a bit more complex. First of all, if we want to make a video ranking European countries, we are obviously obliged to consider ALL countries (and in fact, this is what the European Commission's Migration Atlas did, which is where we got this information). Then there are other small nations in Europe that have a much lower percentage of expats than those we mentioned in the video. Surely the size of the country, as you mentioned, can be a contributing factor, but it seems that there are many others, and even more important ones. At least that's what it seems from the European Migration Atlas.

@yngveroennike

2 ай бұрын

Well, who cares in the US what Rhode Island does? :)

@mauriceoreilly9955

2 ай бұрын

​@@yngveroennikeperhaps you meant Wyoming? This and 5 other states (plus DC) have smaller a population than Rhode Island!

Poland 🇵🇱 are everywhere in Europe..

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

😎😎😎🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

You forgot Sweden! About 20% immigrants

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

Hi! According to the European Migration Atlas, Sweden has 8.5% of its population as migrants. We assure you that we have faithfully reported the data from the European Migration Atlas. If they have reported incorrect data, we at Amazing Europe obviously cannot say so. We can only tell you that (usually) they take their data from the official statistical institutes of the various nations. We can only hope that they are doing their job well, because if not, then we are in a bad way! 😅 Have a great day!

you base on datas from 2022, byt during 2 last years Poland got over 3 millions immigrants.

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

Hello! Thank you very much for reporting this data! We had to take data related to 2022 because, to conduct a serious study, we had to gather all the data from a single source, and it had to be an official source. It is the 2023 European Commission Emigration Atlas, which contains data up to 2022. Thanks again for your notification! 😊

​@AmazingEuropeChannel well obviously you need to use the correct government statistics. Not other statistics.

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@erikedstrom2710 Hi! It's not that simple. When dealing with statistics, if you want to do a professional job, you should (when possible) take all the data from a single source (and that it is authoritative). Obviously, this is not always possible. In this case, we took the statistics for EU countries from the European Migration Atlas 2023 (it is the last one they have published and it is related to data up to 2022). For non-EU European countries, we were then forced to check different sources (we looked at the national statistical institutes). In theory, the European Migration Atlas should take its data from the national institutes, and in fact most of the time they coincide. Sometimes there are slightly different data, and other times very different data. Obviously, it is not up to Amazing Europe to say who is right and who is wrong. However, we note that sometimes there is a somewhat ridiculous and paradoxical situation, with the European Atlas and the national statistical institutes giving even very different data (fortunately, however, this only happens in a few cases).

Luxemburg is not really a country. It is merly a city.

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@heinzkoenig8831 Hi! In fact, it is the second least populous state in Europe after Malta (obviously excluding microstates). However, even if it doesn't seem like it, it has 105 different municipalities. The main city (which is Luxembourg) has about 20% of all the inhabitants of the State.

@ds5379

2 ай бұрын

​@@AmazingEuropeChannelexcluding microstates, Malta is not the least populous state in Europe. Iceland is.

@yusufmalik575

2 ай бұрын

I guess you could say the same about Singapore then

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@ds5379 You’re right! Thanks 😊

@ds5379

2 ай бұрын

@@yusufmalik575 it's funny how some people feel the need to question smaller countries' existence. I'm from Malta - and I don't feel Italian, or British, or North African (though I can't deny various external influences) - so our nationhood is well-deserved.

And what about other countries?

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

Hi! Feel free to tell us which other countries you want to know about.

@artursbondars7789

2 ай бұрын

@@AmazingEuropeChannel There are other European countries with large immigrant and foreign born populations.

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

According to the European Migration Atlas 2023, in eleventh place we find Germany and Latvia tied, with 13.1% of foreign citizens. Germany is the European country with the highest number of immigrants, but when compared to the population, it ranks eleventh. Have a good day!

@artursbondars7789

2 ай бұрын

@@AmazingEuropeChannel In Latvian case, I think, data is incomplete. Did they include statless persosns living in Latvia and other soviet imigrants?

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@artursbondars7789 Hi! The Atlas does not specify each type of migrant considered. In general, they simply took all the foreigners who are in the various nations, including irregular immigrants. Have a nice day!

What you are trying to do here is rather difficult. What is the definition of an immigrant? Perhaps someone born outside the country under consideration? What about "droit du sol" vs "droit du sang"? Some of your commentators have referred to what people in their (or other) country 'look like'. Such comments are at least unscientific, and quite a few based on arbitrary prejudice (e.g. islamophobia). Other commentators draw attention to the size of countries - and certainly 'size matters' when trying to make comparisons. You put micro-states aside. This is sensible. How many inhabitants of the Vatican City, for example, were born there! When is a micro-state small enough to be considered a micro-state? I don't think it is sufficient to point out (as you do repeatedly in your responses) that you rely on the European Migration Atlas 2023 when data is available from that source, and, otherwise, from individual country sources. Some have argued, not without justification, that different sources are not comparable. Your response is that you have, essentially, done the best you can. However, interpretation of data is tricky! I checked out data from the most recent census (3 April 2022) in my own country (Ireland). In a population of just over 5m (5084879 to be exact), only 80% were born in Ireland (excluding Northern Ireland, of course). Of the remaining 20%, 1.2% were born in NI, 4.5% in Britain, 6.5% in the EU (outside Ireland) and 7.8% elsewhere. Based on these data, what is the percentage of immigrants? Maybe 18.8%? We don't usually think of people born in NI as 'immigrants'. Since Brexit, our dear neighbours in Britain seem more distant, even if family ties remain very significant! Almost two decades ago (if I recall correctly) natives of Poland living in Ireland outnumbered natives of Britain; this was no longer so in 2022 (106143 native Poles vs 227303 native British). Interestingly, only 15678 Ukrainians were recorded in the 2022 census; today, estimates exceed 100000. Thus the task of comparing the numbers of immigrants (and the significance of such data) in various European countries is indeed tricky! Yet, let's try to consider data scientifically rather than pander to our prejudices ...

@AmazingEuropeChannel

Ай бұрын

Hi! Thank you for your interesting observations! Let's clarify a few things: 1) As we mentioned in the video description, we followed the terminology used by the UK's "Immigration Advice Service": "The basic definition of an immigrant is someone who travels to a foreign country with the intention of settling there permanently." 2) Therefore, all residents of a nation who have citizenship of another nation (or are stateless) were considered. This includes both regular and irregular immigrants. We are planning another video exclusively on irregular immigrants. 3) The 5 European states unanimously recognized by all as microstates are Liechtenstein, Vatican City, San Marino, Andorra, and the Principality of Monaco. Some also include Malta, but most do not recognize it as a microstate. 4) We used official data precisely because we didn't want to rely on biases. 5) The problem you mentioned about the sources is true and serious. While making this video (and other videos on this channel), we noticed that different official sources gave different data. We find this quite embarrassing. We obviously know that this data is difficult to collect, but we would expect more professionalism from those who study it. For this video, we saw that in a few countries, the European Migration Atlas and the national statistical offices reported different figures. Faced with this, the "least bad" thing we could do was to look for an official "authoritative" source (and the TOP in Europe for this is the European Migration Atlas, since European migration studies and reforms are based on the data provided by this atlas). Unfortunately, this atlas has the "limitation" of only dealing with EU countries (it actually deals with all countries in the world, but only reports the number of immigrants for EU countries). Since our channel covers all European countries, we took the missing data from the national statistical offices. As you rightly said, it was a very complicated task, but we believe that this video has managed to give an overview of the situation. Have a nice day!

Well out of date. It’s gone up since 2022.

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@Tuffydipstick Hi! Sure, some things have changed in 2 years, but they haven't been completely overturned. To make a professional video, we needed to take all the data from a single, authoritative source, and the most authoritative source in Europe on migration is the European Migration Atlas 2023 (covering up to 2022), and that's where we got the data from. Sure, as we said before, there have been some changes in two years, but they have not been radical at all. Have a nice day!

So sick of it. Beschmierte wande

You forget the aliens whith national citizenship give by sorros and co😅😅

Wtf! And there is no Latvia in list? In Latvia there live only about 63% of locals and rest is immigrants (mainly from ex-soviet coutries). Riga is only capital in Europe where immigrants is about 50%.

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

hello! With 13.1% of migrants, Latvia is eleventh on this list, on par with Germany. Have a great day! 😊

@matrixberzins465

2 ай бұрын

13.1%? :D Where you get your stats please? There is more immigrants - Russians who live in Latvia are immigrants - and Russians alone is about 22% rest of them are Belarusians, Jews, Lithuanians, Ukrainians and others.@@AmazingEuropeChannel

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@matrixberzins465 Hi! We obtained the data for EU countries from the Atlas of Migration 2023, the official European Union document on migrant statistics. You can download it here: (publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135949). If the link doesn't open, just search Google for "European Commission Atlas of Migration - 2023". It is not an easy document to read, so we recommend that you also read the document explaining how to interpret the data. As for Germany and Latvia, this atlas states that in 2022, 13.1% of the population were immigrants. For non-EU European countries, we have obviously reported the data taken from their national statistical institutes. P.S. To make this video, we obviously also looked at some websites of each individual nation, but we curiously noticed that they gave different statistics, sometimes by a lot. For this reason, we opted for a single authoritative source (the Atlas of Migration is the most authoritative document in the EU). If even this atlas reports incorrect data, obviously we at Amazing Europe cannot say so. Have a nice day!

France is not a winner?

@AmazingEuropeChannel

6 күн бұрын

Hello! According to the European Migration Atlas, France has 7.8% immigrants. However, it's in the TOP 10 for illegal immigrants. If you want to know more, in a few weeks we'll be releasing a video specifically on this topic. If you don't want to miss it, we recommend subscribing to the channel. Have a great day! 😊

Moi,je ne crois pas du tout à cette statistique elle est complètement fausse 👎👎👎☹️☹️☹️

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

Salut! Nous avons extrait ces statistiques de l'Atlas européen des migrations 2023. Il s'agit de la plus grande étude statistique sur les migrations en Europe, qui présente les données officielles de l'Union européenne. Bien sûr, il ne nous appartient pas, en tant qu'équipe d'Amazing Europe, de dire si ce document est faux ou non. Cependant, si quelqu'un souhaite réaliser une vidéo sur les statistiques concernant les migrants, il ne peut pas ignorer l'Atlas européen des migrations. Évidemment, pour les pays non membres de l'Union européenne, nous nous sommes basés sur les données officielles des instituts statistiques nationaux. On peut te demander ce qui te pose problème dans ces statistiques ?

@luciestepan8577

2 ай бұрын

@@AmazingEuropeChannel Le problème pour moi dans ces statistiques c’est la France et l’Allemagne ces pays se situent en quel position??quand on voit dans ces pays que des immigrés???

@AmazingEuropeChannel

2 ай бұрын

@luciestepan8577 Salut ! Selon l'Atlas européen des migrations, 7,8 % de la population vivant en France est immigrée (la plupart venant de l'extérieur de l'Union européenne), tandis que l'Allemagne en a 13,1 % (se classant ainsi onzième dans ce classement, à égalité avec la Lettonie). Il y a deux choses à dire à propos de ces pays : 1) FRANCE : Ayant une très longue histoire d'immigration (principalement en provenance de certains pays d'Afrique du Nord), beaucoup de personnes qui, à première vue, semblent être des immigrés, sont en réalité des citoyens français. De plus, les données de l'Atlas Européen des Migrations sont confirmées par l'Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques français, qui affirme : "La population étrangère vivant en France s'élève à 5,3 millions de personnes, soit 7,8 % de la population totale. Elle se compose de 4,5 millions d'immigrés n'ayant pas acquis la nationalité française et de 0,8 million de personnes nées en France de nationalité étrangère". 2) ALLEMAGNE : L'Allemagne est le pays européen avec le plus grand nombre d'immigrés (environ 10,9 millions en 2022). Par conséquent, en marchant dans les rues d'Allemagne, on a l'impression qu'il y en a beaucoup proportionnellement. Mais comme l'Allemagne a aussi une population très importante (c'est le pays européen le plus peuplé, à l'exclusion de la Russie), il y a 10 autres pays européens avec un pourcentage de migrants plus élevé.

@lemenyves34

2 ай бұрын

@@AmazingEuropeChannel Il y a presque autant de pays non membres de l'union, qui ont donc des méthodes différentes d'établissement des statistiques. Mettre Chypre, le Luxembourg, l'Estonie, ou Malte au nombre des pays à forte immigration, c'est se moquer du monde, et je pèse mes mots. Y êtes vous allé, au moins?

@mauriceoreilly9955

2 ай бұрын

​@@luciestepan8577"on voit dans ces pays que des immigrés." C'est ça le problème - que vous croyez quand vous voyez quelqu'un qu'il est immigré ou pas. Le pays d'origine d'une personne n'est pas du tout évident par son apparence.

Top countries with desperate wifes

@section5760

2 ай бұрын

Muslim country’s?? The men are all in Europe?