The provided table presents data on the number of citizens from five European countries—Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain—regarding individual settlement in each other’s nations in 2011.
Overall, approximately 3,300,000 people resided within these countries, with Germany and Britain holding the leading positions, while Poland exhibited the lowest numbers. It is also apparent that the Spanish constituted the smallest foreign community compared to other surveyed groups, whereas the Polish represented the largest influx of immigrants in the same year.
It is obvious that Germany was clearly the most popular for individuals from other countries, exhibiting the highest number of overseas residents at 1,198,000. Italian and Polish expatriates represented a significant proportion of the total, with 556,000 and 426,000 individuals, respectively. Subsequently, the United Kingdom hosted the second-largest number of foreign residents (1,037,000), predominantly Polish, with a population of 550,000. Furthermore, 861,000 individuals from other nations chose to immigrate to Spain, with the British representing the largest group (391,000), approximately twice the number of both German and Italian citizens.
Conversely, Italy and Poland were less popular destinations for foreign nationals, exhibiting a significantly smaller number of immigrants. Specifically, Italy attracted only 196,000 individuals from the listed nations, notably consisting of 106,000 Polish nationals. Poland, however, was the least popular of the five countries, exhibiting noticeably low figures, primarily due to immigration by German and British citizens, 4,400 and 760 individuals, respectively.