Where are all the foreigners in the roc & Europe

wanderer


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08/09/2010 12:28

CYPRUS has the third highest percentage of foreign citizens in the European Union, with a total of 128,000 according to a Eurostat survey released yesterday.

Of those, 78,000 or 9.8 per cent were from other EU member states and the remaining 6.3 per cent, or some 50,000 are from non-EU countries.

The country with the highest percentage of foreigners is Luxembourg, where 44 per cent of residents are foreign, followed by Latvia (18 per cent) and then Cyprus and Estonia in equal third place with 16 per cent.

This is almost 10 per cent higher than the EU average of 6.4 per cent (31.9 million in total)

The countries with the lowest percentage are Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia, which each have less than one per cent of residents from abroad.

In terms of foreign population size, Germany’s was the highest, with over seven million foreigners. The UK had 4 million foreign residents