Evidence
America Takes Most Migrants but Ranks 21st Per Capita
Everything this story rests on. If a figure is not here, we did not publish it.
The one number
8.8
Australia: permanent migrants per 1,000 residents, 2024 (12th of 29 OECD countries)
Sources
| Series | Publisher | Tier | Period | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| perm_migration_inflow ↗ | OECD | Tier 1 | 2024 | OECD International Migration Database, standardised permanent inflows (thousand persons) |
| perm_migration_inflow_per_1000 ↗ | OECD | Tier 1 | 2024 | OECD International Migration Database, permanent inflows per 1,000 residents |
| population ↗ | World Bank | Tier 1 | 2024 | Total population used as denominator for per-1,000 calculation |
Caveat
Per-capita rankings structurally favour small, wealthy states such as Luxembourg and Switzerland, where even modest absolute inflows produce large per-1,000 figures.
How to check this yourself
Follow the source links above. Each goes to the published series, not to our copy of it. Where we computed a figure rather than quoting one, the calculation is stated in the basis column. If you find an error, it gets a correction on the story.