- EU citizens living in another Member State accounted for 2.7% of the EU population in 2012
Among the EU Member States, the highest proportion of foreign citizens in the population was observed in Luxembourg (44% of the total population), followed by Cyprus (20%), Latvia3 and Estonia3 (both 16%). The percentage of foreign citizens was less than 1% in Poland, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria and Lithuania.
- There were 123 female students per 100 male in the EU27 in 2011
- The higher the education level, the lower the risk of poverty
The largest differences in the at risk of poverty rate between persons with low and high levels of education were recorded in Bulgaria (44% for those with low education and 4% for those with high education), Croatia (38% and 5%), Romania (35% and 2%) and Cyprus (29% and 4%), and the smallest in the Netherlands (12% and 6%) and Denmark (17% and 9%).
Eurostat pocketbook “European social statistics” is available free of charge in pdf format on the Eurostat website.