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The US has a population of ~330 million. Iceland has a population of ~390,000. Iceland is 102k km², but only about a quarter of that is habitable due to glaciers, mountains, and nature reserved. It's comparable in size to Vermont or Massachusetts.

17k people migrated to Iceland last year, or about 4.3% of the total population.

The United States 200k is about 0.06% of the population.

Have you been to Iceland? There's loads of non-Icelandic people living there. About 16.3% of the entire country's population[1], and in some areas it's close to 30%.[2]

The highest number of immigrants in the US are in CA, where it's ~23%,[3], and the country average is about 14%.[4] Although this number is no doubt higher in some cities like SF and LA. But as a country, Iceland has roughly the same or more immigrants than the US.

[1]: https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2022...

[2]: https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2021/10/20/immigrant...

[3]: https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/

[4]: https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s...



For the US the parent said it was 200k migrants in one month. That's 2.4 million/year, or 0.7% of the population.


Whoops, too late to edit now – but the point is still the same.




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