Editing Stuttgart (section)

=== Immigrants ===
More than half of the population today is not of [[Swabia]]n background, as many non-Swabian Germans have moved here due to the employment situation, which is far better than in most areas of Germany. Since the 1960s, many foreigners have also immigrated to Stuttgart to work here (as part of the "[[Gastarbeiter]]" program); another wave of immigrants came as refugees from the [[Wars in Yugoslavia]] in the 1990s. Thus, as of 2022, 47% of the city's population is of foreign background. In 2000, 22.8% of the population did not hold [[German nationality law|German citizenship]], in 2022 this had increased to 27.6%.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stuttgart in Zahlen |url=https://www.stuttgart.de/service/statistik-und-wahlen/stuttgart-in-zahlen.php |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart |language=de}}</ref> By end of 2018 the largest groups of foreign nationals were [[Turkish people|Turks]] (17,900), [[Greeks]] (13,757), [[Italian people|Italians]] (14,021), [[Croats]] (15,268), [[Serbs]] (5,844) followed by immigrants from Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Poland, France, Austria, Morocco and Cameroon. 39% of foreign nationals come from the European Union (mostly Italy, Greece, and Poland).<ref name="stuttgart_de" />