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

Changed on: 08/03/2024 02:00

External migration; sex, age, marital status, country of birth; 1995-2022
Sex	Age	Marital status	Country of birth	Periods	Immigration (number)	Emigration including administrative c... (number)	Net migration including administrativ... (number)	Administrative entries (number)	Administrative removal (number)	Net administrative corrections (number)
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Total	2022	320,024	139,882	180,142	11,114	31,453	-20,339
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Unknown country of birth	2022	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Africa	2022	17,077	4,334	12,743	950	2,017	-1,067
Total male and female	Total	Never married	America	2022	23,223	9,552	13,671	1,219	2,102	-883
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Asia	2022	46,430	12,475	33,955	716	2,197	-1,481
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Europe (incl The Netherlands)	2022	231,923	112,740	119,183	8,210	25,070	-16,860
Total male and female	Total	Never married	GIPS countries (European Union)	2022	25,890	13,065	12,825	220	1,929	-1,709
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Middle and Eastern European EU countries	2022	56,615	30,494	26,121	931	9,293	-8,362
Total male and female	Total	Never married	European Union (excluding Netherlands)	2022	106,252	59,901	46,351	1,384	12,545	-11,161
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Oceania	2022	1,371	781	590	19	67	-48
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Afghanistan	2022	2,384	232	2,152	128	151	-23
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Albania	2022	468	162	306	7	36	-29
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Algeria	2022	508	62	446	6	28	-22
Total male and female	Total	Never married	American Samoa	2022	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	American Virgin Islands	2022	0	3	-3	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Andorra	2022	9	9	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Angola	2022	177	90	87	37	57	-20
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Anguilla	2022	1	0	1	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Antarctica	2022	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Antigua and Barbuda	2022	3	1	2	1	1	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Armenia	2022	447	118	329	12	36	-24
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Argentina	2022	1,119	467	652	6	38	-32
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Aruba	2022	1,104	406	698	60	90	-30
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Australia	2022	1,039	583	456	12	54	-42
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Austria	2022	837	584	253	13	33	-20
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Azerbaijan	2022	582	126	456	16	39	-23
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bahamas	2022	5	4	1	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bahrain	2022	31	15	16	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bangladesh	2022	816	196	620	15	90	-75
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Barbados	2022	13	1	12	1	0	1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Belarus	2022	565	86	479	3	25	-22
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Belgium	2022	3,389	2,084	1,305	47	167	-120
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Belize	2022	6	2	4	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Benin	2022	17	7	10	2	2	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bermuda	2022	4	9	-5	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bhutan	2022	10	11	-1	0	3	-3
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bolivia	2022	114	45	69	2	13	-11
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2022	246	123	123	22	39	-17
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Botswana	2022	17	12	5	0	2	-2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Brazil	2022	3,090	1,091	1,999	58	140	-82
Total male and female	Total	Never married	British Indian Ocean Territory	2022	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	British Virgin Islands	2022	1	1	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Brunei	2022	11	11	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bulgaria	2022	10,102	4,900	5,202	177	1,700	-1,523
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Burkina Faso	2022	23	6	17	6	3	3
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Burundi	2022	34	20	14	14	14	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cambodia	2022	29	15	14	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cameroon	2022	165	63	102	8	32	-24
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Canada	2022	1,076	534	542	28	41	-13
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cape Verde	2022	164	37	127	33	40	-7
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cayman Islands	2022	1	1	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Central African Republic	2022	3	2	1	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Chad	2022	5	3	2	0	2	-2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Channel Islands	2022	18	4	14	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Chile	2022	403	206	197	2	20	-18
Total male and female	Total	Never married	China	2022	5,845	2,850	2,995	41	429	-388
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Colombia	2022	1,235	527	708	29	111	-82
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Comoros	2022	3	1	2	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Congo	2022	24	5	19	6	3	3
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Congo (Democratic Republic)	2022	197	97	100	23	60	-37
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cook Islands	2022	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Costa Rica	2022	129	38	91	1	3	-2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Croatia	2022	1,230	487	743	11	92	-81
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cuba	2022	114	52	62	5	15	-10
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Curaçao	2022	3,059	858	2,201	519	577	-58
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Czechoslovakia (old)	2022	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	(former) Czechoslovakia	2022	2,832	1,658	1,174	38	341	-303
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Czech Republic	2022	1,022	584	438	16	101	-85
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cyprus	2022	587	213	374	4	23	-19
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Denmark	2022	575	492	83	8	44	-36
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Djibouti	2022	6	7	-1	3	8	-5
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Dominica	2022	5	0	5	1	0	1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Dominican Republic	2022	472	219	253	49	118	-69
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Dutch Caribbean	2022	159	83	76	28	35	-7
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Ecuador	2022	335	158	177	7	35	-28
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Egypt	2022	1,155	273	882	26	76	-50
Total male and female	Total	Never married	El Salvador	2022	58	25	33	1	9	-8
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Equatorial Guinea	2022	7	3	4	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Eritrea	2022	1,006	87	919	48	109	-61
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Estonia	2022	419	195	224	12	31	-19
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Eswatini	2022	9	4	5	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Ethiopia	2022	363	151	212	32	77	-45
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	2022	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Faroe Islands	2022	1	2	-1	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	2022	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Fiji	2022	8	0	8	2	0	2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Finland	2022	903	612	291	2	32	-30
Total male and female	Total	Never married	France	2022	4,977	3,207	1,770	48	306	-258
Total male and female	Total	Never married	French Guyana	2022	48	22	26	3	7	-4
Total male and female	Total	Never married	French Polynesia	2022	3	3	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Gabon	2022	4	2	2	0	2	-2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Gambia	2022	107	64	43	3	55	-52
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Gaza Strip and West Bank	2022	69	15	54	6	10	-4
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Georgia	2022	498	165	333	8	44	-36
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Germany	2022	9,345	7,282	2,063	90	546	-456
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Ghana	2022	770	250	520	37	134	-97
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Gibraltar	2022	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Greece	2022	5,611	2,290	3,321	56	522	-466
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Greenland	2022	1	3	-2	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Grenada	2022	3	0	3	1	0	1
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.
Emigration including administrative c...: Emigration including administrative corrections
People leaving for another country plus people removed on administrative grounds, minus people entered on administrative grounds.
Data on emigration including net administrative corrections give a better impression of the true level of emigration than data on emigration excluding net administrative corrections.

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.

Emigration:
People leaving for another country.
All persons who leave the Netherlands to live in another country for a certain period of time. People leaving the country are obliged to notify the authorities if they intend to live outside the Netherlands for at least eight months in the first year following this notification.

Administrative correction:
Entries in and removals from the municipal population register for reasons other than birth, death, arrival, departure or municipal boundary change.

Administrative entry:
Decision by a municipality, at the request of the person concerned, to include that person in its population while it has no knowledge of birth, immigration or establishment of that person from another municipality in the Netherlands.

Administrative removal:
Decision by a municipality no longer to include a person in its population, once it has established that the address of the person is unknown, the person cannot be contacted and probably no longer resides in a municipality in the Netherlands.
Net migration including administrativ...: Net migration including administrative corrections:
The number of people arriving minus the number of people departing, including the balance of administrative corrections.
Data on net migration including net administrative corrections give a better impression of the true level of net migration than data on migration excluding net administrative corrections.

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.

Administrative correction:
Entries in and removals from the municipal population register for reasons other than birth, death, arrival, departure or municipal boundary change.

Administrative entry:
Decision by a municipality, at the request of the person concerned, to include that person in its population while it has no knowledge of birth, immigration or establishment of that person from another municipality in the Netherlands.

Administrative removal:
Decision by a municipality no longer to include a person in its population, once it has established that the address of the person is unknown, the person cannot be contacted and probably no longer resides in a municipality in the Netherlands.
Administrative entries: Administrative entry:
Decision by a municipality, at the request of the person concerned, to include that person in its population while it has no knowledge of birth, immigration or establishment of that person from another municipality in the Netherlands.

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.
Administrative removal: Administrative removal:
Decision by a municipality no longer to include a person in its population, once it has established that the address of the person is unknown, the person cannot be contacted and probably no longer resides in a municipality in the Netherlands.

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.
Net administrative corrections: Administrative entries minus administrative removals.

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.

Administrative entry:
Decision by a municipality, at the request of the person concerned, to include that person in its population while it has no knowledge of birth, immigration or establishment of that person from another municipality in the Netherlands.

Administrative removal:
Decision by a municipality no longer to include a person in its population, once it has established that the address of the person is unknown, the person cannot be contacted and probably no longer resides in a municipality in the Netherlands.