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."
Denmark actually did the math on mass migration, and the results are brutal
Their Ministry of Finance counted every tax paid and every public expense for every resident, broken down by where they came from and how old they are
Immigrants from the Middle East, North Africa,... pic.twitter.com/4hY7XgbsWn— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) November 11, 2026
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 tha
