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USA also has the Green Card Lottery which provides 50k visas per year.



Each 100k is 0.03% of the US population. So it is not much.


It added about 1.5M since 1990 which is a huge number.


According to [0] there are more than 3.5 million births per year, so a bit more than 100 million since 1990. 1.5% isn’t insignificant, but I wouldn’t call it huge.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/195908/number-of-births-...




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