Share of foreign nationals in EU member states in 2020

This statistic shows the share of foreign nationals in the total population of European Union member states in 2020. Foreign nationals are people who do not possess the nationality of the country they are residing in permanently. This includes stateless. In 2020, the share of foreign nationals in Luxembourg's population amounted to 47.29 percent.

Share of foreign nationals in the total population of EU member states in 2020

Characteristic	Share of foreign nationals in the total population
Luxembourg	47.29%
Austria	16.51%
Estonia	15.02%
Latvia	13.64%
Ireland	12.95%
Germany	12.49%
Belgium	12.47%
Spain	11.04%
Denmark	9.08%
Sweden	8.81%
Greece	8.46%
Italy	8.45%
EU	8.1%
France	7.63%
Slovenia	7.46%
Netherlands	6.59%
Portugal	5.73%
Czech Republic	5.49%
Finland	4.79%
Lithuania	2.32%
Croatia	2.12%
Hungary	2.04%
Bulgaria	1.51%
Slovakia	1.42%
Poland	0.94%
Romania	0.72%

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March 2021

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2020

Supplementary notes

*regarding Latvia and Estonia, the share of third-country nationals, and thus the figures presented here, are remarkably high due to the "recognized non-citizens". recognized non-citzizens are mainly previous Soviet Union nationals who reside permanently in these two countries but do not possess neither Latvian or Estonian nationality, nor the nationality of any other country.

**Preliminary data.

***Estimate.

According to the source, no data were available for the EU member country Romania. Data for Latvia, Poland and the United Kingdom are provisional

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