Which Countries Are The Most Tolerant Of Immigrants? New Map Ranks United States High On Scale

Progressive nonprofit the Social Progress Imperative has released a report evaluating countries on how well they provide for their residents’ well-being, scoring nations on a host of factors including “tolerance for immigrants”. The index puts the United States at number seven on the list, ranking its tolerance for immigrants at 82 out of 100 (with 100 being most tolerant and 0 the least tolerant). That’s better than many of its industrialized counterparts in Europe: France, for example, ranked 47^th in the world with a score of 66, while Germany came in at 22^nd and Switzerland at 35^th.

The most tolerant country in the world for immigrants, according to the group, is Canada, which came in at number one. Australia, New Zealand and Paraguay were tied for second, followed by Burkina Faso at fifth and Ireland at sixth. The United States was tied with Uruguay for number seven. Latin American countries had a mixed record – aside from Paraguay and Uruguay’s high marks, Costa Ricans were also ranked as quite friendly to immigrants (16^th place), and several others earned middling grades, including Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile. Others were significantly worse: Mexico, which sees about 250,000 migrants arrive every year – the vast majority Central Americans bound for the United States – came in at an abysmal 108^th place.

Although those countries which scored particularly highly on the overall index of social progress were also more likely to be more accepting of immigrants, the correlation is only so strong – Burkina Faso, for instance, ranked 112^th in the world on the overall index, Paraguay came in at 72^nd, and Mali, another top-ten country for relations with immigrants, was 113^th. Meanwhile, Austria was 11^th in the world in its all-around index, but came in at a relatively low 50 for tolerance of immigrants. See the whole list via SPI below.