Number of workers from Central and Eastern Europe rising

The number of workers from EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe in the Netherlands has increased by 20 percent relative to March last year, according to Statistics Netherlands.

Demographics
› Total population: 125.000
› Average age: 33
› Gender: male (nearly two thirds)

Note that only 37.000 of the total number have been registered as residents of a Dutch municipality, while "more than four in every five workers from Central and Eastern Europe came from Poland in March 2011," nearly 18.000 more relative to one year previously.

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