(MENAFN) The number of people to make asylum applications in Italy decreased by half to around 53,000 in 2018, as said on Wednesday by the OECD in its Migration Outlook.
The majority of the applicants were from Pakistan, Nigeria and Bangladesh; 6.1 million people resident in Italy were born out of the country, 10 percent of the population, as it also said.
172,000 Italians immigrated to OECD countries in 2018, a drop of 0.2 percent, with 30 percent going to Germany, 16.7 percent to Spain and 11.1 percent to the United Kingdom, as said by the OECD.
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