People Percentage Of Immigrants

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People tend to think there are more immigrants in their country than there really are.

In the United States, for example, the average person believes that 33% of people were not born there. However, official estimates from government agencies show that the figure is just 15% — less than half as many.

In Japan, people guess that 10% of the population are immigrants, but the accurate figure is around 2%. For every 5 immigrants people think exist, there is only one in reality.

As the chart shows, this mismatch is common everywhere. The data comes from the 2023 Ipsos Perils of Perception report.

Haiti and the Dominican Republic are two Caribbean countries that share the same island, Hispaniola. However, despite sharing the same island, the two nations have developed very differently in recent decades. In 1990, Dominicans had twice the GDP per capita of Haitians. 32 years later, they are seven times richer than Haitians.

The chart shows both trajectories. While the Dominican Republic experienced sustained growth during the three decades, Haiti’s GDP per capita has barely grown and, at times, even slightly decreased. To allow for comparisons, all incomes are shown in international dollars, which account for differences in cost of living across countries.

Today, Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas.

At what age do women have children?

The chart shows the number of births in the United Kingdom since 1950, broken down by the mother's age. This is based on estimates from the latest UN World Population Prospects report.

You can see that, over time, fewer children are born to women in their teens and twenties. This number has been falling since the 1960s.

Instead, we see a rise in the number of births to women in their thirties.