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by T-A 3723 days ago
Official Swedish statistics: http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/START__BE_...
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Malmö

Foreign born persons | Population

102,047 | 322,574

Foreign background | Swedish background

139 240 | 183 334

Seems pretty normal for a cosmopolitan city. Doesn't look like Atilla the Hun is at the gates, either.

The equivalent for New York City[1] is:

Foreign born persons | Population

3,136,592 | ~8,344,000

[1] http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/population-geography/fore...

Toronto [2], on the other hand is ~49% foreign-born. Vancouver is 45%.

[2] http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2007/12/05/a_city_of_unmatch...

Some people like to interpret "foreigner"... differently. Confirmation bias is a wonderful thing.