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MIGRATION

Facts and figures

Source: Eurostat

During 2009, about 3 million people immigrated into one of the EU Member States with at least 1.9 million emigrants reported to have left an EU Member State. 1.6 million people who came to the EU were previously residing outside the EU.

The country that reported the largest number of immigrants in 2009 was the United Kingdom (566 000), followed by Spain (499 000) and Italy (443 000). Almost half of all immigrants to EU Member States were recorded in these three countries.

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Immigration by main citizenship group, 2009 - Source: Eurostat

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Number on immigrants in 2009 per 1000 inhabitants - Source: Eurostat

There is a slight prevalence of men over women among immigrants for the EU: 52 % versus 48 % respectively.

Immigrants to EU Member States in 2009 were on average much younger than the population already resident in their country of destination. On 1 January 2010 the median age of the EU population was 40.9 years. The median age of immigrants in 2009 ranged from 24.9 years (in Portugal) to 33.7 years (in Latvia).

The total number of people who are not citizens of their country of residence living on the territory of the EU Member States on 1 January 2010 was 32.5 million, representing 6.5 % of the EU-27’s population. More than 20 million (about two thirds) were citizens from non-EU countries.

In absolute terms, the largest numbers of non-nationals living in the EU on 1 January 2010 were in Germany (7.1 million persons), Spain (5.7 million), the United Kingdom (4.4 million), Italy (4.2 million) and France (3.8 million).

In relative terms, the EU Member State with the highest share of non-nationals was Luxembourg, where non-nationals accounted for 43.0 % of the population at the beginning of 2010.

The distribution by continent of origin of citizens from non-member countries living in EU Member States, the largest proportion (36.5 %) were citizens of a European country outside of the EU-27, a total of 7.2 million people; among these more than half were citizens of Turkey, Albania or Ukraine. The second biggest group was from Africa (25.2 %), followed by Asia (20.9 %), the Americas (16.4 %) and Oceania (0.9 %). More than half of the citizens of African countries that were living in the EU were from North Africa, often from Morocco or Algeria

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