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The World's Most Popular Remote Working Destinations For Digital Nomads, Mapped

From Europe to the Americas, professionals can get a digital nomad visa that opens up a whole new world of work possibilities. Here's where people are flocking to.

11 months ago · 72.6k reads ·

Digital nomads, or a precursor to the much popular remote worker, are professionals who have the ability to continue working their jobs from anywhere in the world, as long as they're connected and can carry out certain tasks. After parsing through thousands of Instagram posts with the #DigitalNomad tag, Resume.io created a map of the world's most popular destinations where people are practicing this lifestyle. Here's what they found.

Key Takeaways:

The US is still one of the world's leaders when it comes to remote work after Resume.io found over 200,000 posts tagged with #DigitalNomad in the country, followed by Spain, which had over 125,000 and Thailand which had just over 124,000.
The lesser-known destinations which weren't flooded with tagged posts included countries like Madagascar, Uruguay, Ghana, Denmark, Nepal and Ireland, all of which had less than 10,000 posts each.
Based on the number of tagged posts, London, UK, and Bangkok, Thailand, had the largest online communities of digital nomads.

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Via Resume.io.

Comments

John Foote 10 months ago

Valencia, Spain is beautiful, has reasonable costs of living, and tens of thousands of remote workers.
Aditi ymw 10 months ago

really nice
Mehdi Z 11 months ago

There is a mistake: Mauritius has been put in place of Mauritania!
John Hamrick 11 months ago

While raw absolute # are interesting, they are just the initial data point. If one is going to compare the # by country to each other, you have to give them some basis of commonality ... e.g., # per capita, or # per acre, or # per wi-fi users.
Gerard Curley 11 months ago

Whatever about allowing digital nomads to work remotely anywhere within their own country the number of companies who allow their staff to work remotely abroad is few and far between. Totally understandable from their perspective - there's tax and employment law implications as these are generally national matters, as well as open potential for widespread abuse and fraud.
Plus the majority of companies now are moving to hybrid working with a couple of days a week in the office, so being remote abroad is not really an option as such, doubt many workers can fly back every week for days in the office....not to mention the toll it would eventually take on your health, environment, etc
Joaquim Abreu Abreu 11 months ago

If you take in consideration the size of Portugal, Spain and France you see that Portugal has about the same number of nomads, for a territory 4 or 5 times smaller. Imagine the social impact this horde of well-off "workers" causes on the natives lives, rising renting prices for example...
1. Martijn Wismeijer 11 months ago
  
  It's the new trend to blame the digital nomads and golden visa residents in Portugal for just about any problems caused by the government. We all know the excessive number of AL / Airbnb apartments is the real culprit here with housing problems. Rising prices for food are generally caused by excessive money printing by the ECB but everyone blames the inflation on covid, war in Ukraine, and in Portugal the DiGiTaL nOmAdS. 🙈
Amarasiri priyankara 11 months ago

🌎🧠👈Digital gl🌎balization.
Bio simply lifestyle 🤔