Denmark Tallied What Every Resident Pays and Takes… Guess Which Migrants Come Out $11,000 Short
13th November 2026
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.”