Hi!!, I have a few questions for the demography experts here, (please forgive my english)
1-Do the asylum seekers are somehow included in the immigration numbers published by each country´s statistics agencies??. For instance..., Germany reported a net migration of about 430K for 2013, the same year they reported asylum seekers to be about 200K. As you might know, Asylum or the permission to stay, is usually granted to about 20% of Asylum seekers in Germany, that would be about 40K. I asume, if at all, the 40K recognised cases are included in the migration figures but the remaining 160K not, in this case, wouldn´t the remaining 160K have a big impact in population in the middle to long term??, given that only the minority of them are forced to abandon the country if, say.. 50K would illegally stay in the country each year, that would be about 500K in 10 years... and given the big conflicts around the world, asylum seekers numbers are not expected to drop, on the contrary...
2-I can´t find a logical explanation to Italy´s high migration numbers, they´re usually relatively high, about 200K to 300K in recent years, even during a hard economic downturn, I mean... I´d love to live in a warm house with a view to the mediterranean sea, but I think that´s not the case for most migrants if they can´t find a job, , Italy receives a lot of asylum seekers, ok, but as far as I know, Germany is accepting far more asylum seekers, and even having a booming economy with the lowest youth unemployment in the EU, while Italy being the opposite, they have relatively similar absolute migration. Maybe the retirees from Europe migrate to Italy but I don´t think that can account for 300K migrants...
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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine
Someone asked me to provide more information about the comparison between France and the UK, so here it is.
Births in 2013:
Mainland:
- metropolitan France: 781,621
- Great Britain: 754,526
Country:
- France: ca. 818,000
- UK: 778,805
Sovereignty:
- French Republic: ca. 827,500 (there was an error in my previous post, I've corrected it)
- UK + British Overseas Territories + Channel Islands + Isle of Man: ca. 786,000
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3- What´s the difference between Metropolitan France, France, and French Republic? I thought they only differentiated between Metropolitan France and France as a whole with overseas colonies... and why these numbers are different from Wikipedia?? they state 811 510 live births for 2013 which I asume is for France as a whole but it doesn´t mach any of your numbers...
Thanks all in advance!!