New Singapore citizens reciting the Pledge during a national Citizenship Ceremony. The Republic came up tops for the second successive year in a global survey which calculates each country' Potential Net Migration Index, the estimated number of adults wishing to leave subtracted from the number wishing to come in.
WASHINGTON - SINGAPORE remained a top immigration hot spot for the second successive year in a global survey conducted by Gallup.
The city-state could see its population triple if everyone who wants to move here was allowed to, the poll released last Friday showed.
It found that, in that case, Singapore's population of 4.8 million would increase by 219 per cent.
The second-most popular destination was New Zealand, whose population of four million would rise by 184 per cent. Third was Saudi Arabia, whose population of 26 million would soar by 176 per cent if everyone who wants to come in and wants to leave, could do so.
Gallup researchers interviewed nearly 350,000 adults in 148 countries between 2007 and this year to calculate each country's Potential Net Migration Index (PNMI).
The PNMI is the estimated number of adults who wish to permanently leave a country subtracted from the estimated number who wish to immigrate there, as a proportion of the total adult population. -- AFP
