This map made by chartsbin.com shows the percentage of foreign prisoners within each national prison population. Foreign prisoners includes men and women held in penal institutions, as pre-trial detainees (remand prisoners) or having been convicted and sentenced, in the world
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The latest stats show exactly how many foreign-born citizens live in each country in Europe. See how they compare
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Every year, many immigrants to the U.S. start businesses and become wildly successful. Here’s a look at some of those businesspeople.
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Foreign-born labour: Alien invasions
As economies across the developed world fell into recession in 2008, legal permanent immigration to the mostly rich members of the OECD declined by 6%, after five years during which growth averaged 11%. Despite the slowdown in the arrival of new migrants, the number of foreign-born workers in most OECD countries rose in 2008 from a year earlier. In 2007 one in every four workers in Australia was born abroad; in 2008 that share rose further, to 26.5%. Among the 18 OECD countries for which 2008 data are available, the share of the foreign-born in the labour force fell only in Luxembourg (not shown), Austria, Belgium and France. The number of foreign-born workers in America rose by 308,000 in 2008, to 25.1m.via www.economist.com