# EU countries by foreign-born population, 2025

All 26 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2025, so the places are comparable. 1 EU countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `foreign_born_population`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Residents on 1 January whose country of birth is not the reporting country, all ages and both sexes (Eurostat migr_pop4ctb, country of birth FOR).
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Population on 1 January by group of country of birth, foreign country (migr_pop4ctb) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/migr_pop4ctb/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Population on 1 January by group of country of birth, foreign country (migr_pop4ctb). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/migr_pop4ctb/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/foreign-born-population-number/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 17,153,545 |
| 2 | France | 9,633,730 |
| 3 | Spain | 9,464,210 |
| 4 | Italy | 6,928,045 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 3,025,656 |
| 6 | Belgium | 2,399,622 |
| 7 | Sweden | 2,199,046 |
| 8 | Austria | 2,069,404 |
| 9 | Ireland | 1,267,144 |
| 10 | Romania | 1,171,823 |
| 11 | Greece | 1,142,215 |
| 12 | Czechia | 1,095,599 |
| 13 | Poland | 940,259 |
| 14 | Denmark | 862,074 |
| 15 | Hungary | 693,156 |
| 16 | Finland | 566,053 |
| 17 | Croatia | 546,622 |
| 18 | Luxembourg | 351,387 |
| 19 | Slovenia | 329,515 |
| 20 | Lithuania | 280,950 |
| 21 | Cyprus | 270,821 |
| 22 | Bulgaria | 246,575 |
| 23 | Estonia | 243,255 |
| 24 | Slovakia | 215,941 |
| 25 | Latvia | 215,606 |
| 26 | Malta | 183,765 |