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Re:Japan: The Harbinger State by avar on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:46AM (#34490182)
Iceland's combined first- and second generation immigration is around 18% of the total population[1], [2] seems to suggest it's around 25% for the US.

The country has also signed up to accept practically unlimited immigration. It's a part of the EEA (the economic area of the EU), meaning that a population of around 500 million can move there tomorrow with very few legal hurdles. "Unlimited" in the sense that the difference between 500 million and the world population of 8 billion hardly matters for a country with a population of far less than 1/2 million.

1. https://www.hagstofa.is/utgafur/frettasafn/mannfjoldi/mannfj...

2. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

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Re:Japan: The Harbinger State by steveBK123 on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:13PM (#34491747)
Sure, but the practical limit is basically the attractiveness of an environment, economy & availability of jobs.

All things being equal, how many people want to flock to Iceland to work in tourism and fishing? Maybe with the right immigrants one could replicate their last financial bubble & crisis.

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