EurostatLuxembourg has highest percentage of foreign citizens in EU

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Luxembourg remains the EU country with the highest percentage of non-nationals in its resident population, recent statistics from Eurostat show.
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Out of all EU member states, Luxembourg has the highest share of non-nationals, at 47% of its total population.

Other countries that have comparatively high proportions of foreign citizens (10% or more) are Malta, Cyprus, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, and Spain.

In contrast, non-nationals represented less than 1% of the population in Poland and Romania.

On 1 January 2019, 21.8 million citizens of a non-member country lived in one of the 27 EU Member States, representing almost 5% of the EU population.

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