External migration; sex, age, marital status, country of birth; 1995-2020

Changed on: 18/07/2023 02:00

External migration; sex, age, marital status, country of birth; 1995-2020
Sex	Age	Marital status	Counrty 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	2020	174,508	121,558	52,950	16,688	34,069	-17,381
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Western countries of birth (incl Neth...	2020	126,052	95,540	30,512	12,437	25,556	-13,119
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Non-western countries of birth	2020	48,456	26,018	22,438	4,251	8,513	-4,262
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Unknown country of birth	2020	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Africa	2020	10,150	4,076	6,074	1,279	2,197	-918
Total male and female	Total	Never married	America	2020	17,849	10,371	7,478	2,041	3,172	-1,131
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Asia	2020	23,503	16,695	6,808	875	3,727	-2,852
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Europe (incl The Netherlands)	2020	121,827	88,979	32,848	12,478	24,746	-12,268
Total male and female	Total	Never married	GIPS countries (European Union)	2020	15,417	11,938	3,479	329	1,856	-1,527
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Middle and Eastern European EU countries	2020	47,330	29,018	18,312	1,184	8,803	-7,619
Total male and female	Total	Never married	European Union (excluding Netherlands)	2020	84,798	57,964	26,834	1,824	12,564	-10,740
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Oceania	2020	1,179	1,437	-258	15	227	-212
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Afghanistan	2020	575	223	352	126	157	-31
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Albania	2020	318	168	150	2	41	-39
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Algeria	2020	94	42	52	10	16	-6
Total male and female	Total	Never married	American Samoa	2020	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	American Virgin Islands	2020	0	1	-1	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Andorra	2020	6	2	4	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Angola	2020	141	85	56	68	89	-21
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Anguilla	2020	1	1	0	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Antarctica	2020	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Antigua and Barbuda	2020	1	1	0	1	2	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Armenia	2020	169	78	91	15	26	-11
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Argentina	2020	719	428	291	5	49	-44
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Aruba	2020	966	278	688	114	118	-4
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Australia	2020	879	1,129	-250	14	183	-169
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Austria	2020	724	652	72	6	49	-43
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Azerbaijan	2020	211	117	94	21	54	-33
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bahamas	2020	11	3	8	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bahrain	2020	26	11	15	1	2	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bangladesh	2020	318	135	183	7	47	-40
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Barbados	2020	1	7	-6	0	2	-2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Belarus	2020	183	59	124	6	14	-8
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Belgium	2020	3,556	1,854	1,702	73	217	-144
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Belize	2020	4	3	1	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Benin	2020	14	11	3	0	2	-2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bermuda	2020	7	6	1	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bhutan	2020	3	17	-14	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bolivia	2020	65	53	12	2	12	-10
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2020	225	146	79	28	54	-26
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Botswana	2020	15	9	6	0	5	-5
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Brazil	2020	2,133	1,267	866	58	204	-146
Total male and female	Total	Never married	British Indian Ocean Territory	2020	0	1	-1	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	British Virgin Islands	2020	3	3	0	0	2	-2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Brunei	2020	27	12	15	1	1	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Bulgaria	2020	7,840	3,992	3,848	270	1,346	-1,076
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Burkina Faso	2020	16	2	14	1	1	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Burundi	2020	22	24	-2	25	28	-3
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cambodia	2020	19	7	12	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cameroon	2020	108	58	50	11	29	-18
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Canada	2020	900	930	-30	15	149	-134
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cape Verde	2020	104	48	56	46	72	-26
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cayman Islands	2020	2	0	2	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Central African Republic	2020	2	5	-3	0	3	-3
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Chad	2020	4	7	-3	0	2	-2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Channel Islands	2020	12	8	4	0	3	-3
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Chile	2020	319	271	48	2	44	-42
Total male and female	Total	Never married	China	2020	4,099	4,370	-271	64	936	-872
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Colombia	2020	929	520	409	56	122	-66
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Comoros	2020	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Congo	2020	10	16	-6	8	8	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Congo (Democratic Republic)	2020	87	83	4	39	71	-32
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cook Islands	2020	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Costa Rica	2020	99	56	43	1	8	-7
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Croatia	2020	619	395	224	20	87	-67
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cuba	2020	90	31	59	3	5	-2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Curaçao	2020	2,578	607	1,971	824	807	17
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Czechoslovakia (old)	2020	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	(former) Czechoslovakia	2020	2,257	1,675	582	58	363	-305
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Czech Republic	2020	819	658	161	22	118	-96
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Cyprus	2020	312	244	68	1	34	-33
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Denmark	2020	502	523	-21	7	56	-49
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Djibouti	2020	5	3	2	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Dominica	2020	2	3	-1	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Dominican Republic	2020	406	153	253	117	148	-31
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Dutch Caribbean	2020	124	75	49	41	40	1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Ecuador	2020	242	164	78	10	42	-32
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Egypt	2020	784	303	481	27	95	-68
Total male and female	Total	Never married	El Salvador	2020	33	22	11	0	4	-4
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Equatorial Guinea	2020	3	2	1	1	0	1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Eritrea	2020	1,635	62	1,573	56	98	-42
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Estonia	2020	276	263	13	3	35	-32
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Eswatini	2020	4	0	4	1	0	1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Ethiopia	2020	316	135	181	41	91	-50
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	2020	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Faroe Islands	2020	3	4	-1	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	2020	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Fiji	2020	2	1	1	0	0	0
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Finland	2020	683	868	-185	4	65	-61
Total male and female	Total	Never married	France	2020	4,015	3,083	932	58	456	-398
Total male and female	Total	Never married	French Guyana	2020	33	17	16	4	9	-5
Total male and female	Total	Never married	French Polynesia	2020	5	3	2	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Gabon	2020	1	2	-1	0	2	-2
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Gambia	2020	130	26	104	6	24	-18
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Gaza Strip and West Bank	2020	66	12	54	2	9	-7
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Georgia	2020	257	196	61	15	76	-61
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Germany	2020	9,525	7,612	1,913	125	731	-606
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Ghana	2020	453	207	246	70	118	-48
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Gibraltar	2020	6	2	4	0	1	-1
Total male and female	Total	Never married	Greece	2020	3,053	2,395	658	88	515	-427
Source: CBS.

Explanation of symbols

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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

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

Changes as from 18 July 2023:
None, this is a new table.

When will new figures be published?
Not applicable. This table will be discontinued after publication.
This table is a copy of 'External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth', see section 3. This action allows the original table to be redesigned without loss of data.

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.