<P> In 2011, almost a quarter of new EU citizens were Moroccans, Turks, Ecuadorian or Indians . The new citizens in the EU27 in 2011 came mainly from Africa (26% of the total number of citizenships acquired), Asia (23%), non-EU27 Europe (19%), North and South America (17%) or another EU27 Member State (11%). In 2011, the largest groups that acquired citizenship of an EU27 Member State were citizens of Morocco (64 300 persons, of which 55% acquired citizenship of France or Spain), Turkey (48 900, 58% acquired German citizenship), Ecuador (33 700, 95% acquired Spanish citizenship) and India (31 700, 83% acquired British citizenship). </P> <P> In 2012, 34.3 million foreign citizens lived in the 27 European Union member states, accounting for 6.8% of the European Union population, of whom 20.5 million were third country nationals (i.e. nationals of non-EU countries). The number of foreign - born (which includes those who have naturalised or are dual nationals) was 48.9 million or 9.7 per cent of the total population . </P> <P> A total of 8.0 million citizens from European countries outside of the EU - 27 were residing in the EU at the beginning of 2012; among these more than half were citizens of Turkey, Albania or Ukraine . The next biggest group was from Africa (24.5%), followed by Asia (22.0%), the Americas (14.2%) and Oceania (0.8%). Romanians (living in another EU Member State) and Turkish citizens made up the biggest groups of non-nationals living in the EU - 27 in 2012 . There were 4.4 million Romanian citizens living outside of Romania within the EU - 27 and 2.3 million Turkish citizens living in the EU - 27; each of these two groups of people accounted for 7.0% of all foreigners living in the EU - 27 in 2012 . The third largest group was Moroccans (1.9 million people, or 5.6% of all foreigners). </P> <P> Approximately 20 million non-Europeans live in the EU, 4% of the overall population . </P>

Country with the lowest fertility rates in europe