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With 26.8M people in 2024, United States of America leads the world in female foreign-born population, followed by Germany (8.4M people) and United Kingdom (5.7M people). The top 5 is rounded off by France (4.8M people) and Canada (4.6M people). Further down, Spain (4.6M people) and Australia (4.2M people) hold the next two spots. Russian Federation (3.9M people), Türkiye (3.6M people), and Italy (3.5M people) round out the top ten. At the extremes, United States of America is 7.6× as high as Italy (3.5M people). Six of the top ten are in Europe.
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