Eurostat:Cyprus has the second highest proportion of foreign citizens

Eurostat says that non EU citizens made up 4.1% of the EU population, in 2011.

In 2011, 33.3 million foreign citizens lived in the EU27 members, accounting for 6.6% of the EU27 population.

This foreign population comprised 12.8 million EU citizens living in another member state, i.e. 2.5% of the EU27 population, and 20.5 million non EU citizens, i.e. 4.1% of the EU27 population.

The highest proportion of foreign EU citizens were recorded in Luxembourg, Cyprus, Belgium and Ireland.

In 2011, the largest numbers of foreign citizens were recorded in Germany (7.2 million persons or 9% of the total population), Spain (5.7 million or 12%), Italy (4.6 million or 8%), the United Kingdom (4.5 million or 7%) and France (3.8 million or 6%). In total, more than 75% of the foreign citizens in the EU27 lived in these five Member States.

Among the EU27 Member States, the highest proportion of foreign citizens in the population was observed in Luxembourg (43% of the total population), followed by Cyprus (20%), Latvia3 (17%) and Estonia (16%). The percentage of foreign citizens was less than 2% in Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia.

Focusing on EU citizens, Luxembourg recorded the highest proportion of foreign EU citizens (37% of the total population), followed by Cyprus (13%), Belgium and Ireland (both 7%), Spain (5%) and Austria (4%).

Nearly 50 million foreign-born people lived in the EU Member States in 2011.

In 2011, there were 48.9 million foreign-born people living in the EU27 Member States, with 16.5 million born in another Member State than the one in which they live (3.3% of the EU population) and 32.4 million born in a country outside the EU27 (6.4% of the EU population).