Singapore Top Destination for Immigration According to Gallup

While the Indian people are looking towards West as an immigration destination they leave a spot in Asia, equally capable of providing the same opportunities or may be more than the West. Perhaps the West and other nations have now acknowledged the fact that ‘Singapore’ could be a very good destination for immigrating and settling down as well.

According to the Gallup Global Immigration Survey, Singapore is a top destination for immigration abroad. Based on the survey, if you were to take up all the people who wish to immigrate to Singapore, the present adult population of Singapore would jump from 3.6 million (present) to 13 million.

The Potential Net Migration Index (PNMI), Gallup released the present figures of people wishing to immigrate abroad. The PNMI is estimated as the number of adults who wish to leave a country permanently subtracted from the estimated number who wish to immigrate to the country, as a proportion of the total adult population. The higher a positive PNMI value, the greater the potential of net population gain the proportional to the population size. Based on the PNMI, Singapore emerged tops with the highest PNMI value of 260 per cent, followed by Saudi Arabia (180 per cent), New Zealand (175 per cent), Canada (170 per cent) and Australia.

However, analysts have studied that PNMI for Singapore is necessarily not surprising since Singapore has a small size and a strong, stable economy. According to the United Nations' 2009 Human Development Report, Singapore is already a popular immigration destination. It ranked No.10 in the world in terms of the share of immigrants as part of total population, at 35 per cent. The UN report also showed that Singapore had a relatively low emigration rate of 6.3 per cent. "If most of those who say they want to come here are mostly economic migrants from other Asian countries, I won't be surprised because Singapore's economy is doing quite well relatively,” Dr Chua Beng Huat, a sociology professor at the National University of Singapore, told the local media when asked to comment on the Gallup survey findings.
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