Is Cosmopolitan Identity Spreading?

Survey results published by the insights and strategy firm GlobeScan in 2016 suggest that an increasing number of people across the world identify as global citizens. I hypothesise that, through the formation of transcultural spaces, an increase in immigrants in a country leads to an increase in people identifying as global citizens in that country. I test this hypothesis by correlating the survey results with the share of immigrants in the populations of the countries covered by the survey. I find that, while there is no significant correlation between the share of migrants in a country and agreement to the statement of identifying as a global citizen rather than as a national citizen, there is indeed a significant correlation between the share of migrants in a country and the share of people identifying primarily as world citizens rather than identifying primarily through their national citizenship, local community, religious tradition, or race/ culture.