🇪🇺In 2025, the European Union had 30.6 million residents who were not EU citizens, representing 6.8% of its population, according to the latest data available from Eurostat. It also had 14.1 million citizens from other member states.

A significant portion of people who are not citizens of the country in which they reside, on the European continent (regardless of whether they originate from another member state), live in Germany (12.4 million), Spain (6.9 million), France (6.5 million), and Italy (5.4 million). Luxembourg remained at the top in terms of proportion, with 47% of residents who are not citizens of the country, followed by Malta (29.4%) and Cyprus (24.8%).

The lowest proportion of non-citizens is found in Poland and Slovakia, where they represent 1.2% of the population, followed by Romania (1.6%), Bulgaria (2.3%), and Hungary (2.7%). In France, foreigners represent 9.4% of the population.