Denmark Tallied What Every Resident Pays And Takes... Guess Which Migrants Come Out $11,000 Short

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Denmark Tallied What Every Resident Pays And Takes... Guess Which Migrants Come Out $11,000 Short Denmark's Finance Ministry added up the taxes paid and the public spending on…

Denmark's Finance Ministry added up the taxes paid and the public spending on each resident and sorted the results by origin: immigrants from the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey cost the state a net DKK 74,000 (about $11,000) each in 2019, while immigrants from Western countries paid in DKK 52,000 (about $7,700) a head more than they drew.

The numbers, published in 2023, resurfaced overnight in a post on X calling them "brutal," with a 76-second video whose narrator calls the claim that "the economy needs migration" "probably one of the most brazen lies ever told."

The narrator then scales the Danish per-head figure up to other countries, arriving at "€35 billion a year" for Germany, "€28 billion" for France and "at least €120 billion a year" for the EU, on the reasoning that "infrastructure, education and health care are fairly similar, so the costs probably are too."

The ministry's analysis of immigrants' net contribution to public finances in 2019 came out in May 2023 and was reissued that September, after Finance Minister Nicolai Wammen acknowledged an error in its country grouping that had left Iran out of the MENAPT category. In the corrected edition, which Wammen cited to parliament that November, the MENAPT per-head net cost is about DKK 74,000, down from DKK 79,000 in the first.

People of Danish origin contributed a net DKK 22,000 each in the first edition, while Danish-born children of MENAPT immigrants ran deeper in the red than their parents, at a net cost of DKK 109,000 (about $16,200) each. Wammen told lawmakers the group averages "may reflect differences in the groups' composition, including age composition" (translated).

The Immigration Ministry told parliament in December 2024 that MENAPT immigrants and their descendants together were a net cost of DKK 24 billion (about $3.6 billion) in 2019, while those from Western countries put in a net DKK 11 billion. All immigrants and descendants together came to a net cost of DKK 16 billion.

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