Number of immigrants in EU reaches record 64.2M

The number of immigrants residing in the European Union climbed to ​a record high of 64.2 million in ‌2025, Reuters writes, referring to a report published on Wednesday by the ​Centre for Research and Analysis on Migration ​at RFBerlin.

The number is up about 2.1 million from a year earlier, according to the report.

Germany remained the bloc’s biggest ​host of foreign-born people at nearly 18 million, 72% of them of working age, while Spain posted the ​fastest recent growth, adding about 700,000 to bring ​its foreign-born population to 9.5 million.