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Europe’s Unauthorized Immigrant Population Peaks in 2016, Then Levels Off
Estimated unauthorized immigrant population by country, with and without waiting asylum seekers, 2014-2017
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- Europe’s Unauthorized Immigrant Population Peaks in 2016, Then Levels Off
- Europe’s unauthorized immigrant total peaked in 2016 before leveling off
- Unauthorized immigrants in Europe account for nearly one-in-five non-EU-EFTA citizens
- More than two-thirds of Europe’s unauthorized immigrants in 2017 lived in Germany, the UK, Italy and France
- Authorized immigrants outnumbered unauthorized immigrants in Europe in 2017
- Many nationalities make up the unauthorized immigrant population in Europe
- Most unauthorized immigrants in Europe have had short periods of residence
- European unauthorized immigrant population estimates with waiting asylum seekers, 2014-2017
- European unauthorized immigrant population estimates without waiting asylum seekers, 2014-2017
- Europe’s estimated unauthorized immigrant population with and without waiting asylum seekers, 2014-2017
- Estimated unauthorized immigrant population by country, with and without waiting asylum seekers, 2014-2017
- Other EU-EFTA countries’ estimated unauthorized immigrant population with and without asylum seekers
- Methods used for estimating unauthorized immigrant populations, by country
- Countries with unauthorized immigrant population estimates based on the residual method
- Countries with unauthorized immigrant population estimates based on the proportional ratio method
- More than half of unauthorized immigrants in Europe are male and most unauthorized immigrants are relatively young
- Number of unauthorized immigrants since 2014 is up in several European countries