A recent Eurostat publication showed that Luxembourg had the second highest rate of migration (per capita) in 2017. We dug a bit deeper into the numbers.
With 41 immigrants per 1,000 inhabitants in 2017, Luxembourg recorded the EU's second-highest rate of migration bested only by Malta's 46. The EU-28 average, meanwhile, is around 5.
Migration from EU-28 countries
Luxembourg has the highest percentage in the Union of migrants coming from one of the EU-28 countries.
Fully 68% of people who moved to Luxembourg in 2017 did so from another EU country, a full 10 percentage points higher than Austria (58%) and Malta (54%), who are in second and third place respectively.
The EU average is 28%, while the lowest rate of EU-immigration is reported in Bulgaria (3%), Lithuania (3%), and Romania (5%).
Migration from non-EU countries
Italy (70%) records the highest percentage of non-EU migrants, followed by Slovenia (65%), and Sweden (62%).
On the other end of the spectrum is Slovakia (8%), Romania (10%), and Portugal (24%). Luxembourg comes in 22nd place, with non-EU migrants representing 27% of people who moved here in 2017. The EU average for 2017 was 39%.
SOURCE: RTL
