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Focusing first on Germany and Britain, they each accommodated well over 1 million foreign residents from the surveyed nations and recorded almost identical outflows of their own citizens, at roughly 530,000 apiece. In Germany, there were 1,198,000 expatriates, with Italians making up the bulk of this community at 556,000, followed closely by Poles at 426,000. Meanwhile, Britain’s 1,037,000 foreign inhabitants were led overwhelmingly by Poles at 550,000, with Germans, Italians, and Spaniards making up far smaller contingents (297,000; 119,000; and 71,000, respectively). In contrast, Poland and Italy tended to send more citizens abroad than they received. The former, while having the largest overseas population of 1,168,000, registered extremely low inbound migration of 6,000. This minuscule influx was predominantly Germans, with 4,400 individuals. Italy likewise recorded a substantial outflow of 863,000, yet its inbound migration figure of nearly 200,000 was far from negligible. Significantly, Poles alone constituted more than half of Italy’s foreign residents (106,000). Moving finally to Spain, it was the country with the smallest presence overseas, at just over 200,000. In terms of foreign residents, Spain drew a tally of 861,000 people, a figure bolstered by 391,000 Britons, 196,000 Germans, 188,000 Italians, and 86,000 Poles. Topic-related vocabulary General vocabulary