Foreigners Account for 10 Percent of Greece's Population: Survey
Posted on: Monday, 21 February 2005, 09:00 CST
Foreigners account for 10 percent of Greece's population: survey
ATHENS, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Foreign nationals residing in Greece were estimated at about 1.15 million people at the end of 2004, or 10.3 percent of the population, up from 270,000 in 1991, the Immigration Policy Institute said on Sunday.
A survey by the institute showed that the largest concentration of non-Greek nationals was in municipal Athens at 132,000, representing about 17 percent of the city's population.
Next came the northern port city of Thessaloniki with 27,000 immigrants, or 7.0 percent of its population.
The highest percentage of immigrants with residence permits were Albanians at 63.2 percent, followed by Bulgarians (9.8 percent), Romanians (4.3 percent), Ukrainians (3.4 percent), Pakistanis (2.4 percent), and Georgians (2.2 percent).
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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