Working-age foreign population in the EU 15, 2005-11

While EU nationals living in another MS amount to 2.7% of the EU 27 population, in 2012 EU nationals working in another MS represented 3.1% of workers in the EU 27. This share amounts to 6.6 million EU citizens working in another MS in 2012. As regards migration flows, in the two-year period up to 2012, around 630 000 active EU nationals took a job in another MS. They emigrated to a limited number of MS.