Suicide by a Thousand Cuts: EU Migrant Population Hits Record 64.2 Million

Immigration to the European Union has surged to historically high levels, reaching a total of 64.2 million foreign-born residents in 2025. This represents a dramatic climb from the 40 million recorded in 2010 and a year-over-year increase of 2.1 million people. 

 

"Agents of Deveolpment," preparing for a crossing from the French coast toward the UK. 

To put this in perspective, approximately one in seven people residing in the European Union was born in a country other than the one where they currently live. The growth trend over the last 15 years highlights a significant shift in the bloc's composition.

 

 

Number of individuals born outside their country of residence
(including those with unknown birth country) in the EU, 2010-2025

 (excluding Portugal due to missing data).

 Number of immigrants in EU countries with the largest immigrant populations, 2010-2025.

 

Number of individuals born outside their country of residence in the EU, 2010-2025.

 

In 2010, the foreign-born population represented approximately 9% of the total EU population; by 2025, that share has risen to 14.25%. This presence is characterized by heavy geographic concentration, particularly in nations like Germany, where nearly 18 million foreign-born residents out of a total population of 83.6 million bring the local percentage to approximately 21.5%. 

"Replacement Migration: Is it A Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?"

Population Division, UN DESA, New York, March 21, 2000.

 

Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on the "Global Compact for Safe, 

Orderly and Regular Migration," A/RES/73/195, Marrakesh, Morocco, December 19, 2018. 

 

» The 2030 Agenda recognizes... migrant women, men and children... as agents of development. « 

"Migration and the 2030 Agenda. A Guide for Practitioners." IOM, 2018.

 

This shift also carries a distinct demographic impact. While the median age of the broader EU population reached 44.9 years in early 2025, 72% of the foreign-born group in Germany is of working age, contrasting sharply with the aging domestic profile of the bloc. According to the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, which utilizes Eurostat and UNHCR data, these figures demonstrate that migration is not just increasing in volume, but is fundamentally reshaping the labor and age structures of the Union's largest economies.

Immigrant Population in 2025 by EU country (% of total population).

 

The Geography of Concentration

A small number of countries handle the vast majority of arrivals and residency stocks. Germany continues to be the primary destination, hosting nearly 18 million foreign-born residents, of whom 72% are of working age. Meanwhile, Spain has emerged as the leader in recent growth, adding 700,000 residents in a single year—roughly one-third of the entire EU’s annual increase—bringing its total foreign-born population to 9.5 million (20%). While Germany and Spain account for nearly half of the total increase, smaller states like Luxembourg, Malta, and Cyprus are experiencing the most significant pressure relative to their population size.

 

Ranking of EU27 countries by total migrant inflows, 2024.

 

Ranking of EU27 countries by total migrant inflows per 1,000 inhabitants, 2024. 

 

Asylum applications follow a similarly concentrated pattern, with four nations receiving nearly three-quarters of all claims. Spain leads the applications with 141,000, drawing heavily from Latin America, followed by Italy with 127,000 and France with 116,000, both of which exhibit diverse source-country patterns. Germany received 113,000 applications, primarily from conflict-driven regions such as Syria and Afghanistan. While larger nations take the most applications in absolute terms, smaller countries often bear a greater burden relative to their population.

 

Countries of Origin of First-Instance Asylum Applicants, 2025.

 

Socio-Economic Strain and the Housing Crisis

As migration reaches these new peaks, official data points to a severe mounting strain on living conditions across the bloc. In 2024, 8.2% of EU residents were considered overburdened by housing costs, spending at least 40% of their disposable income on rent or mortgages. The crisis is particularly acute for the youth, with nearly one in ten people aged 15 to 29 facing a similar housing cost burden. Furthermore, 16.9% of the population now lives in overcrowded households, and 9.2% are unable to adequately heat their homes.

Refugees as a Share of Total Population, 2025: Germany hosts the most (≈2.7 million), more than double Poland (≈1 million), followed by France (≈751,000), Spain (≈471,000), and Czechia (≈381,000). Italy (≈314,000), Austria (≈281,000), and the Netherlands (≈263,000), while most others have fewer than 200,000. Totals include refugees, people in refugee-like situations, and displaced persons from Ukraine under temporary protection.

Recently, European Council President Antonio Costa has emphasized that housing affordability is now "at the core of people's disillusionment with democratic institutions." Spot on, Mr. Costa... these economic pressures, combined with concerns over public security, services, and the cost of living, have fueled a rise in anti-immigration sentiment across EU member states. While the EU allocates approximately 2% of its seven-year budget to migration and 'border management,' the bulk of the financial and social costs are currently borne by individual national governments. 

 

In 2014, the cost to support 2 million 'refugees' over the next three years was at €900

billion—more than twice the German federal government's total annual budget.

 

Now just imagine—due to a prolonged general economic crisis—what will happen once national administrations are no longer able to milk their native populations for hundreds of billions of euros and can no longer redistribute enough protection money to millions of formerly pampered, predominantly male, military-age "refugees" and "migrants" from dozens of Muslim countries destroyed by U$raHell, NATO, and the very EU… they may suddenly start helping themselves otherwise.

 

Most urgent EU priority instead: Drone production and another €90 billion 'loan' for Ukraine.

Geopolitical Tensions and 'Defense' Realities

The migration narrative is inextricably linked to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The EU currently hosts approximately 4.35 million Ukrainian nationals, with Germany serving as the largest host at over one million people. However, the political climate is shifting as domestic hospitality begins to wane. Berlin and Kyiv are now coordinating efforts to facilitate the return of military-age Ukrainian men to their home country as losses mount at the front.

 

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

Simultaneously, the EU is pivoting toward a more aggressive 'defense' posture. Through the recently launched €800 billion EU “ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030” plan, member states are significantly increasing 'defense spending' to counter perceived Russian aggression. 

 

 Militarism, war, deindustrialization, mass-migration, inflation, debt, impoverishment,

corruption, energy and food shortages: All ingredients in place for a perfect storm in the EU.

 

Moscow has dismissed these security concerns as "nonsense," suggesting that EU governments are using the "threat narrative" to distract their citizens from internal domestic failures and the growing complexities of their deliberately fabricated migration crisis. 

Reference:
Tommaso Frattini and Camilla Piovesan (April 20, 2026) - The Immigrant Population in the European Union:
Growth, Concentration and Dispersion. 

 

Roughly 45 million more people could be pushed
into acute hunger this year if conflict persists.

 

 See also:

Anthony Rubin (2026) - Replacing Europe: An Undercover Look at Mass Migration.

TPR (2016) - The US Weapon of Mass Migration and the Coerced Suicide of Europe.

TPR (March 30, 2026) - JPMorgan Maps and Times the Global Oil Supply Shockwave. Really? 
Stanislav Krapivnik (March 27, 2026) - No Energy, No Food: Global System Breakdown Begins.

Alexander L. Chizhevsky (2025) - Mass Excitability during Solar Cycle 25 (2019–2030).

David Betz (2025) - United Kingdom Configured for Civil War Within the Next 5 Years.

Markku Siira (2025) - The Sidonius Apollinaris Syndrome.

Replacing Europe: An Undercover Look at Mass Migration | Anthony Rubin

In a single generation, Europe has changed forever—more profoundly than in the last two thousand years. The globalist governments of Western Europe orchestrated this against their own peoples by design: they opened the borders, and a never-ending, multi-million-strong mass migration—in recent years primarily from Africa, the world's most violence-ridden continent—has been flowing into Europe. Mass immigration has fractured social unity and uprooted European cultures entirely, transforming once-majestic cities into no-go zones and slums. For every 'refugee boat' that arrives, institutionalized African mafias net between 50,000 and 60,000 euros directly in cash from the European Union, all while native Europeans are being replaced demographically, racially, spiritually, and culturally in their own homeland.

  

September 4, 2015: Germany's Merkel regime opens Europe's borders.

 

Who is facilitating all this? The 'king daddy' above everything is the United Nations (UN) and its migration wing, the International Organization for Migration (IOM). You find them at every key border crossing. Then, of course, there is the European Commission and its degenerate, omnipresent bureaucracy. At the lower levels, you find all sorts of other criminal organizations and enterprises; utterly corrupt, opportunist European governments using migration as blackmail for financial aid; and a myriad of publicly funded, so-called international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), such as the Red Cross, Catholic charities, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). Every one of them deserves investigation and prosecution, yet they continue to operate with total impunity.

"Replacement Migration: Is it A Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?"

Population Division, UN DESA, New York, March 21, 2000.

 

Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on the "Global Compact for Safe, 

Orderly and Regular Migration," A/RES/73/195, Marrakesh, Morocco, December 19, 2018. 

 

» The 2030 Agenda recognizes... migrant women, men and children... as agents of development. « 

"Migration and the 2030 Agenda. A Guide for Practitioners." IOM, 2018.

 

Nowadays, starting mostly from Mauritania, an Islamic Republic in West Africa, via the nearby Spanish Canary Islands, the end point of this mass migration is continental Western Europe, where the benefits are highest. These were the richest countries in the world, but they no longer are. Of course, the immediate and direct results of this influx have been not only rampant crime and rape, but also the radical decline in public security, quality of life, stability of cities, and an insane deterioration and collapse of fiscal, legal, education, healthcare, and pension systems across the board. 

 

» Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. 

Jews are going to be at the center of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are 
now moving into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. 
But without that leading role and without that transformation, Europe will not survive. « 

Barbara Lerner Spectre, Founding Director, Paideia Stockholm, 2010.

 

» For every boat [full of migrants] that arrives [to the Canaries], the [Mauritanian] mafia gets between 50,000 to 60,000 euros  [from the Spanish government]. It’s all a game! And Spain wouldn't want this to stop. Every year Spain receives more than 3 billion euros from the European Union. Out of that 3 billion, Spain keeps 2 billion. Then the Spanish take the  other 1 billion in cartons, in boxes, or in suitcases, put it on a flight, and it goes to Mauritania. There they speak with, say, ten people from the very top. For those people, the money isn't sent by check or by bank transfer. It’s in cartons; it’s in luggage. They are paid in cash. « 
IOM representative to the Canaries, teaching basic economics of mass migration and 'refugee crisis,' 2025.

 

However, perpetually financed with billions of euros by the EU Commission in Brussels, European governments keep flying these people by the thousands from the Canaries to the mainland and putting them in camps all across Europe, where they just eat, sleep, and roam on the taxpayers' dime for years, waiting for their 'asylum papers.' Nobody seems to care that certain fish don't mix in the same aquarium, that the native populations don't want them, or that they haven't added anything to these countries. 

» The total cost to support 2 million 'refugees' over the next three years was estimated at 900

billion euros—more than twice the [German] federal government's annual budget for 2014. « 

Migrant 'camps' in Paris, January 23, 2026.

Paris 2026. Indistinguishable from Africa. 

 

Helsinki Cathedral 2025: Huge provocation. Won't end well.

 

Is it reversible? You could stop it tomorrow; these are still the most powerful countries on earth. This is collective self-extermination, and if more Europeans knew and understood the extent of all this, they'd be up in arms in the streets against their governments. But it’s getting to a point where it might be too late. In Germany, they can't even raise a national army because it would be majority Muslim, and they are afraid to give weapons to hundreds of thousands of young Muslim men. Every day that goes by, it gets worse. Reversing it now would involve serious civil conflict because these migrants are high-testosterone men who will fight back. In Calais, France, someone was beheaded in a parking lot not far from where we were. When I met with a UN/IOM worker, he sold me an Excel sheet for 600 bucks showing that the vast majority of arrivals—over 95%—are men. There are almost no women or children. This is the end of Europe, and the West in general.

 

Reference:

Anthony Rubin (January 23, 2026) - We Followed the World’s Deadliest Illegal Mass Migration Route. (video)

  

January 23, 2026: Spain is set to approve a decree legalizing more than 500,000 undocumented immigrants. 

This move provides full EU legal status, enabling them to live and work across Europe while accessing public benefits.

 

 » The result will be a mixed new population with an average IQ of 90

—too dumb to grasp anything, but intelligent enough to work. « 

TPR (June 10, 2016) - The US Weapon of Mass Migration and the Coerced Suicide of Europe.  

What goes around, comes around.

Anthony J. Rubin (29), is the Miami-based founder of Muckraker, a guerrilla media outlet specializing in high-threat undercover exposés on global migration and NGO/government involvement in border crises. A self-described Libertarian Nationalist and America First advocate, he embeds in danger zones to produce documentaries like "Inside the Darién Gap" and "Replacing Europe" alongside his brother, Joshua. Their work combines hidden-camera investigations with a focus on US sovereignty and the rejection of globalism and interventionism.

The Strange Death of Europe | Douglas Murray

Immigration, Identity, Islam

"Every so often, something is published which slices through the fog of confusion, obfuscation and the sheer dishonesty of public debate to illuminate one key fact about the world. Such a work is Douglas Murray's tremendous and shattering book, The Strange Death of Europe", wrote the British Daily Telegraph. 

The 2017 book by the British journalist and political commentator Douglas Murray is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Europe almost committed suicide by means of the two world wars, but managed to survive both times. Douglas Murray holds that a third suicide attempt is under way. The context is rather straightforward: Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive change as a society. The intellectual and political pollution of Europe’s 20th century is a dead weight on the spirit of Europe. Communism and Nazism between them crushed beliefs, tradition, and legitimacy. In reaction to the totalitarian monstrosities, the European Union has dismantled the nation-state; its abolition of borders, its shibboleth about the free movement of labor, and its regimentation of virtue leave the continent defenseless and all doors open for whoever cares to walk in.  

This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who appear to welcome them in to the places which cannot accept them. Told from this first-hand perspective, and backed with impressive research and evidence, the book addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, Lampedusa and Greece to uncover the malaise at the very heart of the European culture, and to hear the stories of those who have arrived in Europe from far away. In each chapter he also takes a step back to look at the bigger issues which lie behind a continent's death-wish, answering the question of why anyone, let alone an entire civilization, would do this to themselves? 

Germany's Merkel Regime: The Wrecking Ball for Europe

He ends with two visions of Europe - one hopeful, one pessimistic - which paint a picture of Europe in crisis and offer a choice as to what, if anything, we can do next. What is to be done? For Murray, an atheist and homosexual, the answers are clear enough politically: a closing of borders, the proscribing of Sharia, the vigilant hunting down of terrorists, the encouragement of European women to have children (which, surprisingly, they are not as averse to as one might expect). The policies that will protect a civilization that has given the world so much are hardly a mystery. But where is the will?

It seems that no number of rapes, car bombings, Jewish-school massacres, and murdered priests will silence the cry of “racist” and “racial profiling” hurled at those who attempt to stem the flow of Muslim men and women into Europe. It will take a group of politicians and citizens of very stern character and strong faith to withstand the litany of shaming that has become the common reply in media and parliaments to those who would institute immigration reform. If that character is found wanting, Europe, as Bernard Lewis has predicted, will be Muslim by the end of the century. Douglas Murray’s book is another warning of that very real possibility. See also HERE