Settling-in Index 2026

The 2026 edition, frozen on 2026-09-29. It does not change when the data does; the next edition is built from the data of September 2027.

Key findings

Canada ranks first of 36 destinations in the Settling-in Index 2026, with 90 of 100.
Japan and Saudi Arabia share the last place of the 36, with 29 of 100 each (2026).
The median destination scores 62 of 100 in the 2026 edition.
Portugal has the highest integration-policy score of the 36: 94 of 100 in MIPEX (2020).
Where English is not the first language, the Netherlands scores highest on the EF English Proficiency Index: 624 points (2025).

Press note

The ranking

Rank	Destination	Score	Integration policy	English	Foreign community	Language courses
1	Canada	90	76	100	—	100
2	New Zealand	86	59	100	100	100
3	Norway	81	85	82	71	—
4	Australia	78	37	100	100	100
5	Sweden	78	91	80	31	100
6	Germany	76	81	83	59	—
7	Portugal	75	94	81	58	50
8	Estonia	73	69	56	72	100
9	Finland	71	91	77	29	—
10	United States	71	69	100	59	50
11	Switzerland	70	63	57	100	—
12	Austria	69	59	83	80	60
13	Ireland	66	22	100	65	100
14	Netherlands	65	65	87	36	—
15	Belgium	63	56	79	56	—
16	Czechia	63	54	66	36	100
17	Croatia	62	50	84	16	100
18	Denmark	62	65	81	45	50
19	Iceland	62	33	—	73	100
20	Malta	62	48	—	100	50
21	Latvia	60	33	74	49	100
22	Bulgaria	57	48	72	9	100
23	Greece	56	61	71	28	—
24	Spain	56	67	45	57	50
25	Poland	51	31	75	5	100
26	Slovenia	50	26	—	40	100
27	Italy	49	67	32	36	50
28	Romania	47	46	78	8	50
29	France	46	52	45	38	—
30	South Korea	45	65	36	22	—
31	Cyprus	44	24	44	72	50
32	Lithuania	43	52	47	21	—
33	Hungary	41	37	70	11	—
34	Slovakia	33	17	78	5	—
35	Japan	29	59	0	13	—
36	Saudi Arabia	29	10	0	100	—

Not scored: Luxembourg (fewer than three of the four components are published); United Arab Emirates (fewer than three of the four components are published); United Kingdom (fewer than three of the four components are published).

The top and bottom ten

Method

Each destination gets one score from 0 to 100 from four components: integration policy (MIPEX, weight 35), getting by in English (the EF English Proficiency Index, weight 25), an established foreign community (foreign residents as a share of the population, weight 20) and language courses for newcomers (the cost of the national programme, weight 20).

A component with no published value is not estimated: the weights are spread over the components the destination has. A destination needs three of the four, integration policy among them, to be scored. The scoring rule of each component is on the index page.

This edition was frozen on 2026-09-29 from the index as the site published it that day; later data do not change it.

How to cite

ImmigrationDB (2026). Settling-in Index 2026. https://immigrationdb.com/indices/settling-in/2026/

Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with the credit above; each value keeps its publisher's terms.

Data

The complete table, with every input, its date and its source, is in /data/indices/settling-in/2026.json. A CSV download follows once the terms of every publisher behind the table are recorded.