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Valuing diversity: guidance for labour market integration of migrants

Figure 5 Top 10 host countries, 2011

Source: Eurostat, population statistics – population by citizenship. Online data code [migr_pop1ctz].
Table 4 illustrates the composition, in large groups, of the EU country
population according to their birthplaces. First, it shows a very relevant presence
of third country-born in many European countries. Second, with a few exceptions,
this share is already noticeably higher than the share of foreign EU-born
residents.

Citizenship data reveal similar tendencies to country of birth data. The
proportion of third-country nationals varies from country to country, but they
usually constitute the majority component of the immigrant population.
Exceptions are Cyprus, Luxembourg and Switzerland due to a high proportion of
European non-nationals working amidst a relatively small host population.
Some countries reveal in their population structure the effects of proximity to
other EU or extra-EU areas. Estonia and Latvia have a strong proportion of
Russian population, who have traditionally worked in those countries, even after
the fall of the USSR. Belgium and Ireland have a relatively small proportion of
third-country immigrants, due to the strong presence of United Kingdom nationals
in the first case, and of Dutch nationals in the second.
Eurostat’s long-term projection for the foreign component in the European
population shows an increase in most countries. This tendency is stronger in
south European countries (Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal), in some traditional
destinations for immigrants, such as Austria and the United Kingdom, and in
some relatively new cases such as Sweden.

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