Born abroad, living in the EU: How migration shapes the EU’s population

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The number of non-EU citizens living in the EU has grown by 2.3 million in 2023, with Ukrainian, Turkish, and Moroccan citizens representing the three largest groups.

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00:00How diverse is the EU population?

00:07Around 44.7 million persons born outside the EU were living in a EU country at the start of 2024.

00:15This number represents 9.9% of the EU's population. That's an increase of 2.3 million

00:22compared to the previous year. The largest number of foreign-born individuals living

00:27in EU countries were found in Germany with 16.9 million people. That's followed by France with

00:339.3 million, Spain with 8.8 million and Italy with 6.7 million. By contrast, foreign-born

00:41individuals represented less than 5% of the population in Poland at 2.6% of its resident

00:48population. Romania followed at 3.1%, Bulgaria at 3.3% and Slovakia at 3.9%. Between 2014 and

00:592024, the proportion of foreign-born persons increased in most EU countries. Over the last

01:0510 years, the proportion of foreign-born persons decreased only in Latvia and Greece. The median

01:11age of EU-born individuals is 45.1 years, while for foreign-born individuals living in the EU,

01:19it is 43.1 years. Ukrainian, Turkish and Moroccan citizens were the three largest groups

01:25of non-EU citizens living in EU member countries in 2024.

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