Racism against people of sub-Saharan African descent is rising across the European Union, with Germany topping the list.

A survey of 6,752 Black people in 13 E.U. countries found 45 percent experienced racial discrimination – a six percent increase from 2016, Reuters reports.

The survey, which the E.U.’s  Agency for Fundamental Rights commissioned and released Wednesday (Oct. 25), said Germany had the highest discrimination rate at 76 percent.

"It is shocking to see no improvement since our last survey," FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty said. "Instead, people of African descent face ever more discrimination just because of the colour of their skin."

The report, titled “Being Black in the EU,” surveyed people born in sub-Saharan Africa or with at least one parent born there. E.U. member states in the survey included Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

Austria placed second, with 72 percent of Black residents experiencing racial discrimination in the last five years – increasing from 51 percent in 2016.

Portugal and Sweden had the lowest racial harassment rates. Those two countries and Poland had the lowest racial discrimination rates.

The Guardian reports that the racism uncovered varied, from verbal abuse and racial profiling to housing and job discrimination.

Nearly one in four surveyed (23 percent) said a landlord prevented them from renting a home because of their race. That same percentage said someone made offensive or threatening comments to their child in person because of their ethnicity or immigrant status.

Almost half of the 26 percent of Black people stopped by the police believe the officer racially profiled them.

In what appears as evidence of employment discrimination, the survey found that  Black people were disproportionately over-qualified for their jobs. Nearly one-third (35 percent) of college-educated Black people had low or medium-skilled occupations compared with 21 percent of the general population.

The Guardian noted that the rise of far-right parties in Austria and Germany coincides with the higher rates of reported racial discrimination in those countries.

In Germany the populist Alternative für Deutschland, its third largest party, promotes anti-immigration policies and has grown more influential recently. The same political dynamic exists in Austria, where the Freedom Party, founded in the 1950s by a former Nazi, is doing well in the polls.

“Racism and discrimination should have no place in our societies. The EU and its member states should use these findings to better target their efforts and ensure people of African descent, too, can enjoy their rights freely without racism and discrimination,” O'Flaherty said.