OREANDA-NEWS. On 1“ of January 2014, the Member States of the European Union (EU) had 506.8 million residents, of which 472.8 m*on were nationals (atizens of the reporting country) and 34.1 million foreign atizens. this latter group consisting of 14.3 mflbon atizens of another Member State and 19.8 твюп non-EU atizens. It should be noted that persons who acquire citizenship m a Member State are no longer counted as foreign atizens In that country.

On the occasion of today's International Migrants' Day. Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, publishes a smai selection of data on foreign atizens Irving In the EU Member Stales. A larger range of data broken down by country of atlzenship as well as by country of Orth is also avaiable m the Eurostat database.

Highest proportion of foreign citizens in Luxembourg, lowest in Poland

Aaoss Member States, the highest proportion of foreign citizens in the total resident population was recorded m Luxembourg (45.3%), where almost half of the population did not have Luxembourgish atizenship. Shares above 10% were also regetered In Cyprus (19.5%), Latvia (15.2%). Estonia (14.9%). Austria (12.5%). Ireland (11.8%). Belgium (11.3%) and Spain (10.1%). In contrast Poland (0.3%), Romania (0.4%). Croatia. Lithuania and Bulgaria (all 0.8%) a> registered shares of foreign atizens below 1%. m total, foreign atizens made up 6.7% of the resident populatcn of the EU Member States at 1“ January 2014.