External migration; sex, age, marital status, country of birth; 1995-2022

External migration; sex, age, marital status, country of birth; 1995-2022

Sex Age Marital status Country of birth Periods Immigration (number)
Total male and female Total Total marital status Total 2022 403,108
Total male and female Total Total marital status Unknown country of birth 2022 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Africa 2022 23,586
Total male and female Total Total marital status America 2022 29,328
Total male and female Total Total marital status Asia 2022 68,449
Total male and female Total Total marital status Europe (incl The Netherlands) 2022 280,178
Total male and female Total Total marital status GIPS countries (European Union) 2022 26,993
Total male and female Total Total marital status Middle and Eastern European EU countries 2022 62,574
Total male and female Total Total marital status European Union (excluding Netherlands) 2022 115,693
Total male and female Total Total marital status Oceania 2022 1,567
Total male and female Total Total marital status Afghanistan 2022 3,709
Total male and female Total Total marital status Albania 2022 604
Total male and female Total Total marital status Algeria 2022 620
Total male and female Total Total marital status American Samoa 2022 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status American Virgin Islands 2022 1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Andorra 2022 9
Total male and female Total Total marital status Angola 2022 204
Total male and female Total Total marital status Anguilla 2022 2
Total male and female Total Total marital status Antarctica 2022 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Antigua and Barbuda 2022 3
Total male and female Total Total marital status Armenia 2022 676
Total male and female Total Total marital status Argentina 2022 1,351
Total male and female Total Total marital status Aruba 2022 1,290
Total male and female Total Total marital status Australia 2022 1,185
Total male and female Total Total marital status Austria 2022 890
Total male and female Total Total marital status Azerbaijan 2022 853
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bahamas 2022 5
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bahrain 2022 36
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bangladesh 2022 1,020
Total male and female Total Total marital status Barbados 2022 14
Total male and female Total Total marital status Belarus 2022 932
Total male and female Total Total marital status Belgium 2022 3,939
Total male and female Total Total marital status Belize 2022 8
Total male and female Total Total marital status Benin 2022 18
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bermuda 2022 4
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bhutan 2022 11
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bolivia 2022 130
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022 406
Total male and female Total Total marital status Botswana 2022 20
Total male and female Total Total marital status Brazil 2022 4,435
Total male and female Total Total marital status British Indian Ocean Territory 2022 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status British Virgin Islands 2022 1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Brunei 2022 21
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bulgaria 2022 10,823
Total male and female Total Total marital status Burkina Faso 2022 27
Total male and female Total Total marital status Burundi 2022 48
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cambodia 2022 33
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cameroon 2022 195
Total male and female Total Total marital status Canada 2022 1,230
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cape Verde 2022 212
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cayman Islands 2022 1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Central African Republic 2022 3
Total male and female Total Total marital status Chad 2022 6
Total male and female Total Total marital status Channel Islands 2022 19
Total male and female Total Total marital status Chile 2022 500
Total male and female Total Total marital status China 2022 6,492
Total male and female Total Total marital status Colombia 2022 1,536
Total male and female Total Total marital status Comoros 2022 3
Total male and female Total Total marital status Congo 2022 33
Total male and female Total Total marital status Congo (Democratic Republic) 2022 268
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cook Islands 2022 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Costa Rica 2022 176
Total male and female Total Total marital status Croatia 2022 1,353
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cuba 2022 161
Total male and female Total Total marital status Curaçao 2022 3,726
Total male and female Total Total marital status Czechoslovakia (old) 2022 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status (former) Czechoslovakia 2022 2,988
Total male and female Total Total marital status Czech Republic 2022 1,076
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cyprus 2022 601
Total male and female Total Total marital status Denmark 2022 619
Total male and female Total Total marital status Djibouti 2022 9
Total male and female Total Total marital status Dominica 2022 6
Total male and female Total Total marital status Dominican Republic 2022 638
Total male and female Total Total marital status Dutch Caribbean 2022 191
Total male and female Total Total marital status Ecuador 2022 406
Total male and female Total Total marital status Egypt 2022 1,707
Total male and female Total Total marital status El Salvador 2022 81
Total male and female Total Total marital status Equatorial Guinea 2022 7
Total male and female Total Total marital status Eritrea 2022 1,139
Total male and female Total Total marital status Estonia 2022 462
Total male and female Total Total marital status Eswatini 2022 12
Total male and female Total Total marital status Ethiopia 2022 738
Total male and female Total Total marital status Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 2022 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Faroe Islands 2022 1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2022 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Fiji 2022 12
Total male and female Total Total marital status Finland 2022 966
Total male and female Total Total marital status France 2022 5,517
Total male and female Total Total marital status French Guyana 2022 50
Total male and female Total Total marital status French Polynesia 2022 3
Total male and female Total Total marital status Gabon 2022 5
Total male and female Total Total marital status Gambia 2022 145
Total male and female Total Total marital status Gaza Strip and West Bank 2022 101
Total male and female Total Total marital status Georgia 2022 655
Total male and female Total Total marital status Germany 2022 10,305
Total male and female Total Total marital status Ghana 2022 963
Total male and female Total Total marital status Gibraltar 2022 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Greece 2022 5,879
Total male and female Total Total marital status Greenland 2022 1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Grenada 2022 4
Source: CBS.
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Immigration and emigration in the Netherlands and the administrative corrections by country of birth, sex, age and marital status.

Data available from 1995 to 2022.

Status of the figures:
All data recorded in this publication are final data.

Changes as from 8 March 2024:
None, this table was discontinued.

When will new figures be published?
No longer applicable. This table is succeeded by the table External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth. See section 3.

Description topics

Immigration
People moving to the Netherlands from another country.
All persons who enter the Netherlands with the intention of staying in the country for a certain period of time. For people arriving in the Netherlands, registration is obligatory if they stay in the country for at least four months during the first six months following registration.

Break in series external migration
As a result of an improved production process, a small shift has occurred in the figures on external migration.
From 2010 the following changes have been implemented.
- previously missed reports are now included;
- administrative entries preceding emigration are now considered as immigration
- administrative removals followed by immigration are now considered as emigration

Break in series of late reports
Up to 2010 reports of events in a certain year received at Statistics Netherlands after 15 February of the following year - the so-called late reports - were ignored. As a result of an improvement in the production method, late reports received in the year of publication will be included in the figures for the year of publication.