Facts and Figures

There are 143,200 foreigners in Shanghai from 214 countries and regions all over the world in 2010, while most numerous members of that group were citizens of Japan, the United States and the South Korea.

Foreigners working in Shanghai had on average received an education of 12.8 years, prior to coming to Shanghai, and 71 percent of them had obtained degrees above the college level.

More than half of the city's 208,300 foreign residents from overseas live on their own, while just over 20 percent of the demographic have a spouse from the Chinese mainland