Most of the EU foreigners in Germany are of working age

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In an EU comparison in 2019, by far the greatest number of EU foreigners between the ages of 20 and 64 lived in Germany.

Specifically, there are 3.3 million people who are designated by the EU Commission as of working age, according to the annual report on EU labor mobility published in Brussels on Friday.

In second place is Great Britain, which was still part of the European Union in 2019, with 2.6 million people, followed by Spain with 1.4 and Italy with 1.2 million.

In total, 13 million EU citizens of working age were reported to be outside of their country of origin in 2019.

That is 1.2 percent more than in the previous year.

In the years 2014 to 2017, this number rose by an average of around five percent per year.

If you take the UK out of the equation, however, there is no such sharp decline in the annual increase: Accordingly, 3.2 percent more people were drawn from the former 28 EU states than in the previous year to one of the now 27 member states.

More than 50 percent of EU foreigners of working age came from Romania (23), Poland (16), Italy (8) and Portugal (7).