SPAIN (Agencies / Photo collage: CampoPulse files) Foreign residents in Spain make up 12.3% of the total population, almost double that of the rest of the EU (6.4%) according to a survey by Eurostat, the Community statistics agency. According to the agency's data, as of January 1, 2009, there were 5.65 million residents of another nationality in Spain, of which 2.27 million (5%) were from another EU member country, the remaining 3.37 million (7.4%) came from a country outside the EU. In absolute numbers, Spain is, after Germany (over 7 million foreigners), the EU country with most foreign residents, followed by the UK, France and Italy.
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