Five Biggest Immigrant Groups by Country #1

Below are 10 countries. Name the country of origin for the five largest foreign born populations in each of them.
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United States
Mexico
India
China
Philippines
El Salvador
 
France
Algeria
Morocco
Portugal
Tunisia
Italy
Japan
China
Vietnam
South Korea
Philippines
Brazil
 
United Kingdom
India
Poland
Pakistan
Romania
Ireland
Australia
United Kingdom
India
China
New Zealand
Philippines
 
Bahrain
India
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Egypt
Philippines
Switzerland
Germany
Italy
Portugal
France
Turkey
 
Brazil
Venezuela
Portugal
Haiti
Paraguay
Japan
Germany
Poland
Turkey
Ukraine
Russia
Romania
 
Russia
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Armenia
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96 Comments
+6
Level 79
Aug 28, 2014
nice quiz. Got most pretty quickly but didn't pick up the last Swiss country until there were only 12 seconds to go.
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Level 76
Sep 7, 2014
Fascinating idea - nice quiz
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Level 49
Sep 25, 2014
Dayum France is being 'Islamified'. Nice quiz though!
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Level 46
Jan 6, 2017
Is that a bad thing?
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Level 68
May 16, 2019
Well, that depends on whether you value French culture, human rights, and secularism. I assume that, as a Marxist, you give lip service to the last one and disdain the rest, so for you, not that bad a thing, no. But then, France's real problem is being taken over not by Muslims but by Marxists.
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Level 68
Mar 30, 2025
Gee, I wonder what the crime statistics are like for immigrants. And second, and third-generation immigrants.

I wonder if they overwhelmingly vote for one party.

And whether they're net-producers, or net-receivers.

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Level 21
Jan 23, 2017
There are only 7% of muslims in France,this is not really an "islamisation"
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Level 73
Feb 5, 2017
Compare the birth rates and you'll see in the next twenty-thirty years it will be almost the caliphate of France
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Level 46
Feb 5, 2017
Yes because birth rates have always remained the same throughout time.
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Level ∞
Feb 5, 2017
I think the top answer here is pretty good. By 2050, France could be 25% Islamic, but probably less. But in the year 2100, who knows? It's definitely possible that France could be majority Islamic by then.
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Level 43
Jan 10, 2024
this assumes that every muslim migrant remains a muslim and their children dont secularize like everyone else in the world has been.
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Level ∞
Mar 26, 2025
That's one assumption.

Another assumption is that Christians or non-religious people might convert to Islam.

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Level 56
Jun 8, 2017
That's pretty alarming
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Level ∞
Mar 11, 2019
Of course, in the far future nearly 100% of people will be descended from religious extremists who do not practice birth control.
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Level 57
May 15, 2019
So what if countries change to become islamic? You think there was nothing in western countries before christianity? In what way does 'islamic' mean bad? And don't just refer to the extremists, there have been plenty of christian extremist terrorists in Northern Ireland, so maybe we should be alarmed that france is 'still' christian? What about the countries in Africa that had christianity rammed down their throats without asking? You think the west is squeaky clean? It wasn't that long ago we were executing people in the west by hanging drawing and quartering, homosexuality was illegal, etc. etc. You are assuming that islam and islamic countries won't become more liberal over the time, the same way almost all countries have. You need to get some historic perspective in your life before lecturing others with your islamaphobic messages (aimed at anyone who has an irrational fear of muslims)
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Level ∞
May 15, 2019
In the long run, we'll all be dead so who cares. But I don't think most people like the idea of their culture becoming extinct and replaced with another one, even if it happens long after they die. It's an understandable concern, even if somewhat irrational.
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Level 43
Jan 10, 2024
Will french culture become "extinct"?

Can we really say that some 4th gen algerian in like 2070 with mixed parentage will be the same as one who walked off the boat right now?

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Level ∞
Mar 26, 2025
Yes, of course it will become extinct. The question is when. It probably won't happen in 50 years, but it will definitely happen within 5000 years.
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Level 55
Apr 28, 2025
even baguettes?
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Level 43
Jan 17, 2026
Though it may shift and change, French culture would not become extinct from Muslim immigration.
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Level 79
May 15, 2019
though figures for atheism are always suppressed in Muslim countries and underreported in Muslim communities there is some hope that that rate of de-conversion will in the future outpace the rate that the crazies can reproduce. It's a pitched battle between Utopia and Idiocracy; admittedly the latter side seems to be winning lately but I'm still pulling for an upset.

Somewhat ironically and perhaps counter-intuitively Muslim immigrants in secular, enlightened countries often end up becoming *more* committed to their barbarism and backwardness than their counterparts in their home countries. In a place like Saudi Arabia, literally everyone is Muslim and the label is not really meaningful. Take a young Saudi man who doesn't think of himself as religious, put him in a strange place where he is othered and perhaps discriminated against for his beliefs and suddenly his religion becomes an important part of his identity. Doesn't always work that way but it sometimes does.

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Level 43
Jun 26, 2023
Quand on voit la place qu'ils arrivent à prendre dans les faits divers très certainement que oui
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Level 73
May 15, 2019
I'm a bit confused, are you basing that on this quiz?

I don't see anything here which says that Muslims are migrating to France - I only see data for migrants of certain countries of origin, no data on their religious inclinations at all

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Level ∞
May 15, 2019
@roleybob. Over 99% of people in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco are Islamic so it stands to reason that the people who immigrate from those countries to France would be mostly Islamic as well. Also, France is now (updated figures) 8.8% Islamic. This didn't happen by converting the native population.
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Level 70
Apr 2, 2025
I don't know why you never are truly fair and just. You always have a negative judgment towards Muslims and Islamic countries. I have been on your quiz site for 12 years now, and I have noticed this so much growing up since I started playing JetPunk when I was 12. I don't understand why you blatantly are so Islamaphobic. You are a Zionist, as we know, which is really disgusting by the way, but I'm tired of you not being neutral or always taking a stance that is negative towards a group of people. There are 1.4 billion Muslims and counting, and it's not nice at all that you are fearmongering and discriminating openly because "everyone hates Muslims" and "everyone is scared of Muslims." Just run your website without your biased inputs. It makes it easier to support you.
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Level 68
Apr 5, 2025
wtc911.jpg

Followed by the relevant images of violent hate crimes they carry out in every western country.

Followed by any other fact, statistic, belief, etc. that accurately reflects Islam & Muslims.

It's almost like watching a group of people chant for your death, declare war on you, then behead you, makes you look bad or something. Idk, who can say, it's a mystery to everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Level 73
May 16, 2019
I would be cautious about that data - there are reasons that these countries might be ostensibly 99% Muslim, while in reality there may be a large part of the population who are not practicing / don't believe / etc., and just identify as Muslim for other reasons. But I suppose we can only go by the data we have.

So if we go ahead and assume that most of these migrants are Muslim, maybe what I should have been addressing is the seemingly sinister tone of the post - not that there are Muslims migrating to France but that "France is being 'Islamified'". To me, religion - especially Abrahamic flavoured religion - is abhorrent, but I wouldn't assume that anyone who moved near me had sinister motives simply based on the country they came from.

'Germany, Italy, Portugal, Serbia and France *xenophobic remark about a lot of Christians moving to Switzerland*' doesn't seem so acceptable, I'll bet?

Maybe I'm missing the point or have inferred the tone incorrectly

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Level 78
Jul 2, 2025
There are so many intelligent people on these comment threads that it is genuinely baffling the mental gymnastics it takes to ignore the obvious in these kinds of scenarios. The reason people are concerned about large influx of Muslim immigrants in Europe is because with their migration, they bring their culture. Now normally, that's not a problem, but recent historical trends have shown that Islam doesn't particularly mesh well with Western culture. They are also given directive in their holy texts to spread their religion, which means assimilation is off the table. I don't know why the world "assimilation" has gotten such a negative connotation these days, but it's necessary. Multiculturalism can only go so far before it starts to become destructive. In a 2020 French survey, 57% of young Muslims want France to be ruled by Sharia Law over the French Civil Law system. This is where multiculturalism fails. But people are so afraid of being offensive, they won't state the obvious.
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Level 59
May 29, 2019
I'm French.

all this talk of birth rates, proportion of Muslims in France, and French culture being threatened etc, is absolutely ridiculous and also kinda sad.

just because there are many Muslims in France doesn't mean that they intend to (or can) change the country's politics or culture towards a more "Islamic" orientation, whatever that means.

a country changes its immigrants just as much as immigrants change a country. cultures change and evolve as they mix with each other, birth rates evolve, religions evolve. people have children with people from different cultural and religious backgrounds and the children then grow up to find their own cultural/religious identities and practices at the crossroads between the different parts of their heritage.

all this fear-mongering talk of France becoming "Islamic" is just racist and ignorant.

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Level 67
Jul 9, 2019
So we’re all a-skeered that Muslims will be growing in population in Western countries, and spreading their terrible, awful, extremist views. It’s a good thing we know for CERTAIN that Islam will be exactly the same as it is today, and, in fact, become more radical. It’s just like how Christianity has also stayed exactly set in stone, like back when Baptists like Jimmy Carter were expressing their pro-choice views, or marching for civil rights with Dr. King. Oh but wait! Let’s also not forget the Crusades, the Counter-Reformation, the Inquisition, etc. Seems we haven’t stormed Jerusalem in a few hundred years! Hmm. It’s almost like religious expression changes and evolves over time, and then back again, and then in another direction yet again, due to myriad variables no one can accurately predict or interpret.
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Level 79
Oct 14, 2020
I'm not scared about what Islam will become, but I am troubled by what I know it presently is. I'm not a big fan of Christianity, either. But Islam is undoubtedly significantly worse.
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Level 65
May 29, 2025
I wonder if the same people were worried when France colonised all these regions. You sow what you reap
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Level 55
Sep 25, 2014
From the UK. Married to an Irish woman. Forgot about Ireland.
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Level 38
Sep 25, 2014
I think that you need to add a list of Argentina, because it's one of the countries who cames a lot of inmigrants!
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Level 46
Sep 29, 2014
Thanks! I've just made a sequel (which is a bit harder) here and I've included Argentina.
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Level 86
Sep 25, 2014
Oh, so everyone is just typing the names of every country. I was over-thinking it, I guess.
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Level 79
Sep 25, 2014
I thought my way through every answer until I was down to the last 2 or 3 and started some somewhat random guessing.
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Level 44
Sep 27, 2014
I did the opposite. First did semi-random guessing (mostly of high-population countries), then thought through the remaining gaps.
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Level 79
Jul 15, 2016
but, that wasn't random. You guessed high population countries. Not random.
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Level 79
Sep 26, 2014
Consider all of the below:

1. Proximity. Countries close to each other swap more immigrants.

2. Previous empires, occupations, and spheres of influence. flowing in both directions.

3. Cultural ties. Though this is often the same thing as 1 and/or 2, it can also mean a common religion or common language.

4. Population. Big countries with more people tend to produce more immigrants in other countries. If country A is farther away than country B, but also has 10x more people, the extra distance doesn't matter so much.

5. Economie s. Poor countries with bad job markets usually send workers to more prosperous countries.

6. Ease of immigration. Often affected by 1, 2, and 3. It can also have to do with common economic zones and political relationships.

7. Consider any anecdotal information you have, if you have any anecdotal or personal knowledge of historically large immigrant communities.

Do that and you shouldn't have to guess more than 2 or 3 max..

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Level 69
Jul 10, 2015
Well yeah you did make up the method so you would be able to do it.
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Level 60
Oct 15, 2016
Also include countries that have civil wars or humanitarian crises (such as Syria) because there are often a lot of refugees from those countries immigrating to other countries.
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Level 73
Sep 26, 2014
Great quiz!
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Level 37
Sep 29, 2014
got 20
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Level 60
Feb 8, 2015
Woo, only had one for Russia until the last ten seconds, when I remembered the Central Asian countries.
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Level 32
Mar 14, 2015
easy
+4
Level 63
May 25, 2016
What's the connection between Brazil in Japan?
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Level 37
Jul 10, 2016
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-migration-between-Japan-and-Brazil
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Level 37
Jul 10, 2016
Taiwan has the greatest number of migrants in China? Do you even know that Chinese people went to colonize Taiwan? I mean, Taiwanese people ARE Chinese people (except the aboriginals, but well I don't think they have great numbers), how can it be that they are migrants in China? I don't think this even makes sense.

Technically, Taiwan is not even a different state. It is controversial, but I wouldn't include it in a quiz like this.

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Level 79
Jul 15, 2016
Technically, it is a different state. Though the People's Republic of China claims Taiwan, and the Republic of China claims China, both governments fail to exert any control over the territory of the other.
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Level 62
Oct 30, 2016
If we take them as different countries, their ethnicity is irrelevant. They're still people moving from one country to another.
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Level 74
Mar 26, 2025
What do China's political goals or ethnicity matter?

China and Taiwan separated in 1949, if someone was born in Taiwan after that and now lives in China, how are they not an immigrant?

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Level 46
Jan 6, 2017
Didnt get many!
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Level 75
Jan 23, 2017
Kazakhstan for Germany? What??
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Level 60
Jan 25, 2017
Germans used to be very widespread, far beyond the borders of the current German-speaking areas, for various historical reasons. Even now there's a meaningful minority of them in Kazakhstan after some Soviet relocations put them there in the 40s.
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Level 68
May 16, 2019
Most of the people leaving Kazakhstan are ethnic Russians, Jews, etc., not Kazakhs. They and their ancestors came there in Soviet times, and are moving to whatever strong economy will give them the best prospects in life. An emigration quiz (where people are going from countries with major out-migration) would be interesting, but would probably show this.
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Level 57
Jun 15, 2019
As a German myself I wondered as well. I've never seen anyone from Kazakhstan where I live (near Stuttgart). I knew one guy in School who came from Kyrgyzstan but no Kazakhs^^Instead there are Italians, Greeks and Croats everywhere so I was really surprised to not see them on this list. So I only got the obvious ones like Turks, Poles and Syrians. Russia surprised me as well not because of Russians living here but rather that there seem to be more Russians than Italians but I guess it makes sense because of things that happened in the past.
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Level 57
Jun 15, 2019
Ok after looking this up a bit more I think the creator of this quiz made some mistakes here. Wikipedia says the five biggest immigration groups in Germany are Turks, Poles, Italians, Romanians and Greeks and I think that sounds more like the Germany I know from living in it. Oh and the source linked by Wikipedia are official statistics by the German Government so yeah Kazakhs are not even in the Top 20 as I suspected and there are no Russians or Syrians in the Top 5 as well. Croats come at 6, Russians at 7 and Syrians are only at 17 despite the refugee crisis.
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Level 59
Nov 10, 2020
I'm really surprised it's still up, the original comment was made in 2017. There is only a small number of Kazakhs in Germany, and even counting Russian Kazakhs or German Kazakhs, it's still a small number. I live in Hamburg (second biggest city) and know many many Russians, Syrians, Turks, Italians, Poles, Iranians, even Armenians and Ghanaians. Not a single Kazakh though haha.
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Level 54
May 4, 2024
same, I know afghans, russians, polish, ukrainians, Chinese, koreans, iranians, brazilians, americans, and even tajiks and srilankans but not a single Kazakh person. or is that just bc of where I live
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Level 35
Jan 23, 2017
Last blank, was on the "i" of ukraine, when I ran out of time:/
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Level 70
Jan 23, 2017
A bit ashamed to forget Syria. Mainly because of what's been going on recently.
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Level 24
Jan 23, 2017
OK, that was harder than expected!
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Level 69
Nov 29, 2017
How aren't Nigeria on the list for the UK?
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Level 51
Dec 2, 2020
People aren't going from Nigeria to the UK
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Level 74
Mar 26, 2025
178,000 Nigerians living in the UK, 324,000 Irish (honestly surprised this isn't higher)
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Level 34
Apr 12, 2018
could not get germans for uk gutted
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Level 68
May 15, 2019
I feel stupid... I got Azerbaijan but not Russia.
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Level 66
May 15, 2019
Interesting that South Korea is #1 for immigrants to China. South Korea is one of the most developed nations in the world, let alone Asia. I wonder if it's just an overcrowding issue? Why would someone want to move TO a communist country?
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Level 70
Mar 27, 2025
A lot of them are probably moving to Hong Kong
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Level 16
May 15, 2019
Forgot Italy... for some reason i only think of Italian immigration in the 20th century... also i wonder if Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras were one country, would they be on the list for USA...
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Level 62
May 15, 2019
Got everything except for one from my own country.
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Level 68
May 16, 2019
Got nearly all except for my own country. I was racking my brains, what other major country would immigrate to Australia?? Oh. New Zealand. My own sister-in-law for example.
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Level 79
May 15, 2019
I feel good for getting Azerbaijan.
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Level 70
Jul 16, 2019
Very good quiz. I got 23/35
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Level 70
Jan 31, 2020
I just made a similar comment to the following in #3 of this quiz series: the reason why there is on these figures apparently a large immigration from Germany to the UK is that in previous decades children of British servicemen and -women happened sometimes to be born in Germany. So when those families have returned to the UK those children are nevertheless counted as having been born in Germany. Which they were.
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Level 25
Feb 10, 2021
yeah pretty sure we got India going to the UK and the USA
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Level 25
Feb 10, 2021
same with Mexico going to the USA
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Level 63
May 11, 2021
Good to know that I'm 1 of the 1.9% of people who got 100%! Purely luck though as I'm a fast typist, really fun quiz!
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Level 69
Jun 15, 2021
Always forget to guess the countries that the quiz is also about
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Level 56
Jul 24, 2022
Anyone else got Switzerland -> Serbia by knowing football players like Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka?
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Level 35
Dec 16, 2022
I'm just trying to take a fun quiz and I see a bunch of people talking about the great replacement in the comments
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Level 68
Jul 13, 2024
"Every day, Canada adds:

- 2541 non-permanent residents.

- 1290 permanent resident immigrants.

- 1029 births.

to their population.

- 38.0% of Canadian residents in 2011 were foreign-born immigrants or their Canada-born children

-- 26.7% of Canadian Children under 15y/o in 2011 were the children of immigrants

-- 31.5% of Children in 2021

Given current trends, as of today about 7% of the Canadian resident population is now a "Non-Permanent Resident" -- their share of the population has more than tripled since 2016."

The fourth estate has failed. People are being deceived. Data and statistics are now "racist". You will vote in compliance with what special interest groups allow you to.

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Level 63
Mar 26, 2025
least insane rabble comment:
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Level 57
Mar 26, 2025
This is the kind of quiz that would benefit a lot by clarifying the timeframe. Biggest immigration groups from last year? Since the country formation?
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Level 73
Mar 26, 2025
What "timefame"?

"Below are 10 countries. Name the country of origin for the five largest foreign born populations in each of them."

Each country has X foreigners. Among them: X1 from country A (the largest share), X2 from country B (the second-largest share), X3 from country C, and so on. Name the countries A, B, C, D, E. As of 2024.

If the British constituted the biggest group of foreigners in Australia in 2024, it doesn't matter whether they all arrived in 2023 or were arriving in small groups throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Level 74
Mar 26, 2025
most immigrants from country x living in the country now, doesn't matter how long they have been there, but those that have left or died are not counted.
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Level 93
Mar 26, 2025
What's whit Brazil and Japan special relationship?
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Level ∞
Mar 26, 2025
I'm not sure. It's pretty weird.

Note that both countries have extremely low rates of immigration by US or European standards so small numbers can move the needle.

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Level 49
Aug 22, 2025
It's not weird, as a Brazilian mixed with Japanese, born in Japan but raised in Brazil, it's very common to find someone as like my situation here, it's because of Coffe production in the past that bring immigrants from Europe and Japan, and Years after, Brazilians mixed with japanese went to Japan for better conditions of life or earn money (I have alot of families there), and some years later some of them back again to Brazil, which makes it a crazy moviment of go and back lol.
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Level 91
Mar 26, 2025
I wondered that as well, so I did some quick informal research. This Wikipedia article has a sentence in the 3rd paragraph that sums up the historical background fairly well:

"In the early 20th century, Japan was overpopulated, and its predominantly rural population experienced significant poverty. At the same time, the Brazilian government was encouraging immigration, especially to supply labor for coffee plantations in São Paulo."

A comment above from ZhulinZ linked to a quora answer with concurring information.

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Level 66
Mar 27, 2025
After the reset, the United Kingdom is still listed in the answer table as a destination for German immigrants, despite not being an answer for the UK anymore.

Other than that, very nice!

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Level 63
Apr 2, 2025
I'm not sure about the source. Official statistics for my country look a little different.
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Level 73
Aug 19, 2025
I remember what this quiz looked like before the most recent update, and it's interesting to see Syria disappear from countries like Germany while Ukraine appears in Europe (due to the war). It's also interesting to see the changes in Russia's migrants, which traded Belarus and Azerbaijan for Tajikistan and Armenia (also Ukraine is now #1 due to war deportations)
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Level 49
Aug 22, 2025
I'm Brazilian mixed with japanese (Today living in Brazil), born in Japan with local citizenship because of my father and grandfather, so my family counts the Brazilians in Japan and me count as Japanese that came to Brazil lol.
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Level 53
Jan 9, 2026
Mr. Worldwide