Foreign citizens made up 6.4% of the EU27 population in 2009
Sep 8th, 2010 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
On 1 January 2009, 31.9 million foreign citizens lived in the EU27 member states, of which 11.9 million were citizens of another EU27 member state. The remaining were citizens of countries outside the EU27, in particular from other European countries (7.2 million), Africa (4.9 million), Asia (4.0 million) and the American continent (3.3 million). Foreign citizens accounted for 6.4% of the total EU27 population.