Immigrant population

Source: EUROSTAT. This domain comprises series of long-term international immigration during the reference year of people reporting "Foreign country" as Country of citizenship. "Immigration" denotes the action by which a person establishes his or her usual residence in the territory of a Member State for a period that is, or is expected to be, of at least 12 months, having previously been usually resident in another EU Member State or a third country. The data sources are administrative records or national surveys. For some datasets statistical estimation methods are applied. Data are presented country by country. The completeness of the tables depends largely on the availability of data from the relevant national statistical institutes. For details on data sources used for compilation of statistics on immigration and emigration and for more country-specific data descriptions see http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database/.