A newly published report on immigration by the Rockwool Foundation in Berlin shows that the percentage of immigrants in the Irish state is the fourth highest of all EU countries at more than 23% which compares to an EU average of just over 14%.
The report, ‘The Immigrant Population in the European Union: Growth, Concentration and Dispersion’ is written by Tommaso Frattini and Camilla Piovesan and is based on the most recent statistics from member states from 2025. Immigrants are defined as “individuals born in a country other than the one in which they reside.”
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