Immigration
Greece has received a large number of immigrants since the early 1990s. The 2001 census revealed that 797,091 foreigners lived permanently in the country and comprised 6.95% of the total population, while their number in 1990 was 142,367. The majority of them come from the neighbouring countries. As of 2006, the number of foreigners in an estimated total of 11,148,533 people was 695,979 or 6.24%. The main ethnic groups were:
| Ethnic group | Population | % |
|---|---|---|
| Greeks | 10,452,554 | 93.76 |
| Albanians | 481,663 | 4.32 |
| Bulgarians | 43,981 | 0.39 |
| Romanians | 25,375 | 0.23 |
| Ukrainians | 19,785 | 0.18 |
| Pakistani | 15,830 | 0.14 |
| Russians | 13,635 | 0.12 |
| Georgians | 13,254 | 0.12 |
| Indians | 10,043 | 0.09 |
| Other | 72,413 | 0.65 |
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Greece
Famous quotes containing the word immigration:
“The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“I was interested to see how a pioneer lived on this side of the country. His life is in some respects more adventurous than that of his brother in the West; for he contends with winter as well as the wilderness, and there is a greater interval of time at least between him and the army which is to follow. Here immigration is a tide which may ebb when it has swept away the pines; there it is not a tide, but an inundation, and roads and other improvements come steadily rushing after.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—James Madison (1751–1836)