Immigration to EU Member States down by 6 % and emigration up by 13 % in 2008

European Commission Eurostat

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Population and social conditions
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

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• Immigration
• Migration humaine
• Population statistics
• Member state of the European Union
• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Langue: English

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Population and social conditions Author: Apolonija OBLAK FLANDER

S t a t i s t i c s i n f o c u s 1/2011

Immigration to EU Member States down by 6% and emigration up by 13% in 2008 EU Member States received a total of 3.8 million much younger population. The age structure of the immigrants and at least 2.3 million emigrants are total population of EU Member States on 1 January reported to have left one of the EU Member 2009 and of immigrants to EU Member States in 1 States in 2008 . 2008 is illustrated by the age pyramid in Figure 1. 2 Compared with 2007 , immigration to EU Member States is estimated to have decreased byFigure 1: Age structure of the population on 1 January 2009 and of immigrants in 2008, EU27 6 % and emigration to have increased by 13 %. The scale and patterns of immigration differ 85 Solid colour: population Bordered: immigrants 80 from one Member State to another. This issue 75 looks at the main international migration inflows 70 into the EU Member States, EFTA and candidate 65 countries in 2008. 60 55 50 International migration as one of the key 45 drivers of population growth in EU 40 35 Member States 30 25 International migration plays a significant role in the 20 size and structure of the population in most EU 15 Member States. The increase in the total population 10 of EU Member States in recent years was mainly 5 due to high net migration. From 2004 to 2008 the 0 population of EU Member States increased, on 2% 1% 0% 1% 2% average, by 1.7 million per year, solely because Men Women inflows outweighed outflows. Although EU27 immigration data excluding BE, EL, CY, RO and UK immigration to the EU Member States fell in 2008 and emigration increased, they still resulted in net Source: Eurostat (online data codes:migr_pop2ctz, migr_imm2ctz) migration which contributed 71 % of the total population increase. The provisional immigration and emigration figures In many EU Member States immigration is not only for 2009 indicate that the downward trend in increasing the total population but also bringing a immigration to EU Member States which started in 3 2008 continued in 2009 . A similar trend has also been observed in most EU Member States in the 1 ‘Total immigration/emigration to/from the EU Member States’ have to statistics on residence permits issued for work and be distinguished from ‘total immigration/emigration to/from the EU as 4 a whole’; the former also includes international migration between the family reasons to nonEU citizens . EU Member States. 2 2007 migration data are not completely comparable with 2008 data since several EU Member States changed their methods, data sources and definitions in order to improve and harmonise migration data (for further details see theEurostat Metadata page). Detailed analysis of 3 comparable data showed that the impact of these changes on For details see: Eurostat, demo_gind. 4 immigration and emigration, compared with 2007, is marginal. For details see: Eurostat, migr_resfirst.