Foreign-Born or Home-Grown?

The percentage of the foreign-born population differs widely within the OECD and two Asian nations are finding themselves well towards the bottom of the ranking. Japan and South Korea – two countries long known for their at-times negative stance on migration – only boast foreign-born populations of 2.5 and 3.8 percent, recently. Only Mexico and Poland scored lower among the 38 countries ranked at 1 percent and 2.2 percent, respectively, while Turkey's rate was 3.5 percent.

This scenario is flipped on its head in European nations Luxembourg and Switzerland, which had the highest score in the ranking. A countries surprisingly below the OECD average of 14.7 percent was France at 13.8 percent, while the United States scored very close to that average at 14.5 percent.