Gallup: New Index Shows Least-, Most-Accepting Countries for Migrants

The least acceptive countries are in Eastern Europe, constituting nine of the top ten – the sole exception is Israel.

The most positive country is Iceland, with Sweden in 7th place.

Japan isn’t really the center of “basedness” that that dissident right paints it as; it is still in the immigration-welcoming First World cluster, though towards the more skeptical end of the spectrum.

The full list is attached below.

It is based on positive/negative responses to the following three questions:

Immigrants living in this country An immigrant becoming your neighbor An immigrant marrying one of your close relatives

Immigration acceptance is positive correlated with education, youth, and higher incomes.

Curiously, the Russian sphere is the major exception that:

The CIS region is a notable exception to each of these global patterns — acceptance is low regardless of education, generation, income level, or whether residents live in urban or rural areas. However, in the CIS, those with less education tend to be slightly more accepting.

Also:

But in some places, who these migrants are may factor more heavily into whether they are accepted. For example, in Russia, where the index score is among the lowest in the world, more than 40% of residents say “it depends” to each of the questions.

This makes a lot of sense. It is strange that West European countries make fewer such distinctions.

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Migrant Acceptance Index Iceland 8.26 New Zealand 8.25 Rwanda 8.16 Sierra Leone 8.05 Mali 8.03 Australia 7.98 Sweden 7.92 Nigeria 7.76 Burkina Faso 7.74 Ireland 7.74 Norway 7.73 Ivory Coast 7.71 Benin 7.67 Luxembourg 7.54 Netherlands 7.46 Bangladesh 7.45 Spain 7.44 United States 7.27 Chad 7.26 Albania 7.22 Switzerland 7.21 Senegal 7.17 Germany 7.09 Denmark 7.09 Congo (Kinshasa) 7.05 Guinea 7.01 Togo 6.96 Ghana 6.91 Venezuela 6.82 Congo (Brazzaville) 6.81 Taiwan 6.8 Philippines 6.77 Uruguay 6.77 Zimbabwe 6.7 Lesotho 6.65 Portugal 6.65 Niger 6.64 United Kingdom 6.61 Finland 6.58 Kenya 6.51 Argentina 6.51 Paraguay 6.5 Italy 6.49 South Korea 6.49 Tunisia 6.47 France 6.46 Japan 6.42 Morocco 6.39 Saudi Arabia 6.39 Brazil 6.38 Cameroon 6.36 Central African Republic 6.36 Peru 6.33 Nepal 6.28 Belgium 6.16 Liberia 6.14 Colombia 6.13 Ecuador 6.13 Gabon 6.12 Malawi 6.1 Vietnam 6.08 Austria 6.06 Dominican Republic 6.03 Nicaragua 6 Hong Kong 5.89 Libya 5.79 United Arab Emirates 5.79 Armenia 5.78 El Salvador 5.73 South Sudan 5.63 Mauritius 5.58 Uganda 5.45 Costa Rica 5.44 Bolivia 5.42 Cyprus 5.41 Turkmenistan 5.36 Haiti 5.31 Mauritania 5.29 Madagascar 5.24 Singapore 5.21 Ethiopia 5.19 Chile 5.17 Zambia 5.15 Honduras 5.15 China 5.11 Botswana 5.1 Somalia 4.99 South Africa 4.98 Malta 4.95 India 4.9 Uzbekistan 4.9 Kuwait 4.85 Tanzania 4.82 Mexico 4.75 Northern Cyprus 4.66 Kyrgyzstan 4.59 Guatemala 4.59 Slovenia 4.42 Tajikistan 4.39 Panama 4.36 Azerbaijan 4.34 Kazakhstan 4.28 Kosovo 4.17 Iran 3.95 Indonesia 3.93 Yemen 3.93 Palestinian Territories 3.9 Lebanon 3.89 Moldova 3.8 Cambodia 3.65 Egypt 3.5 Iraq 3.42 Belarus 3.38 Greece 3.34 Poland 3.31 Turkey 3.27 Ukraine 3.15 Georgia 3.05 Jordan 2.99 Mongolia 2.99 Myanmar 2.96 Romania 2.93 Lithuania 2.72 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.71 Thailand 2.69 Russia 2.6 Afghanistan 2.51 Pakistan 2.47 Bulgaria 2.42 Croatia 2.39 Estonia 2.37 Czech Republic 2.26 Latvia 2.04 Israel 1.87 Slovakia 1.83 Serbia 1.8 Hungary 1.69 Montenegro 1.63 Macedonia 1.47

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