The people of Germany are known as Germans. Foreigners began immigrating to find work in Germany in the late 1950s. By the 1990s, there were approximately 6 million foreigners in Germany; 30 percent of these were Turks, 13 percent were Yugoslavs, 9 percent were Italians, 6 percent were Greeks, 5 percent were Poles, 3 percent were Austrians, and Spanish and Portuguese represented about 1 percent each.