The table illustrates how many people of different European’s countries resided in each other’s nations in 2011.
Overall, Britain and Germany were the two most famous destinations for expatriates. Additionally, Poland attracted the fewest people from the other four countries, while, in contrast, the total number of its citizens living in other nations was the highest.
Regarding the two most popular nations, Germany was home to nearly 1.2 million people, compared to over 1 million in Britain. In Germany, over half of the expatriates are Italian, followed by Poles, with the respective figures of 556.000 and 426.000. Meanwhile, the number of British and Spanish residents accounted for considerably fewer numbers, with slightly more than 100.000 each. In Britain, the Polish community was the largest immigrant group, recording 550.000 people, nearly twice the size of the Germany community, at 297.000. In contrast, the number of Italian and Spanish populations living there were significantly smaller, accounted for 119.000 and 71.000, respectively.
As for the other nations, the total immigrants in Spain ranked third, welcoming 861.000 people from the surveyed nations, four times higher than the figure for Italy, which was only 196.000. Spain was the favourable destination to British people, with 391.000, nearly twice the number of Germans and Italians (around 200.000 each), while only 86.000 came from Poland. In Italy, the Poles registered the highest number of immigrants, with 106.000, far outnumbering the other three countries, whose figures ranging from 19.000 to 42.000. Finally, the total number of expatriates residing in Poland was only 6000, among which, more than two-thirds were from Germany, followed by the modest data of British and Italian community of around 700 people.
In total, Poland attracted most expatriates among five nations, with Italy followed closely, with over 1.1 million and 863.670 people, respectively. In contrast, the number of Spainish people living in different countries was the lowest, recording only 202.170 immigrants. The figures for British citizens and Germans were comparable to each other, each exceeding 500.000.
