Foreign citizens make up 3.8% of population

Di-Ve

Local news / Current affairs
by di-ve.com - editorial@di-ve.com

Local News

http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=43&Action=1&NewsId=67656

Foreigners make up 3.8 per cent of the Maltese population, with the British accounting for over a quarter, Indians for 6 per cent and Serbians for 5.1 per cent – 4,100, 900 and 800 people respectively.
Eurostat reported on Wednesday – International Migrants Day - that 6.2 per cent of the EU’s population was made of foreign citizens as at January 1, 2008. The largest groups in the EU are Turks (2.42 million – 7.9%), Moroccans (1.72 million – 5.6%) and Romanians (1.68 million – 5.4%)

In all, 30.8 million foreign citizens lived in the EU27 member states, of which 11.3 million were citizens of another EU27 member state. The remaining 19.5 million were citizens of countries outside the EU27, of which 6 million were citizens of other European countries, 4.7 million of Africa, 3.7 million of Asia and 3.2 million of the American continent.

In Malta, there are 15,000 foreigners – of which 8,000 come from other EU member states and 7,000 come from countries outside the EU.