How many people migrate every year within Europe?

In 2015, 1.4 million people having citizenship of an EU-28 country migrated to another EU-28 country. The countries that had a large share(more than 50 percent) of EU citizens among the total immigrants into it were Romania, Lithuania, Hungary, Croatia, Latvia, Estonia and Portugal.

In the cases of Romania and Lithuania, a large percentage of this immigration was the return of native born people returning to the countries of their birth. At the same time, these two countries also reported more emigrants than immigrants along with Croatia, Latvia, Portugal and six other countries (total 11 countries with more people leaving than coming in). The 17 remaining countries had more immigrants (incoming) than emigrants (leaving).

As of January 1, 2016, 19.3 million people living in the EU were born in another EU-28 country. The numbers of this group were higher than non-EU born immigrants in Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Cyprus. The number of EU citizens living in an EU country other than the one where they had citizenship was 16 million.

Looking at the countries having large migrant numbers, Germany with 1.44 million immigrants (excluding 58,000 native-born immigrants) in 2015 had 441,000 of them who were born in another EU member state. This was 28.6 percent of the total immigrants in Germany.

Also in 2015, the United Kingdom had 558,500 immigrants(excluding 73,000 native-born immigrants) living on its territory, of whom 258,000 or 40.9 percent were born in another EU member state.

Among the leading countries with emigration in 2015, Germany came first with 347,200, Spain in second at 343,900 while the United Kingdom came third with 299,200 emigrants, with France and Poland making up the fourth and fifth largest respectively on the list.