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) | Net administrative corrections (number) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 151,536 | 116,774 | 34,762 | -14,018 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 148,096 | 109,821 | 38,275 | -13,253 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 93,632 | 65,907 | 27,725 | -11,470 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | 4,735 | 1,450 | 3,285 | 21 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | The Netherlands | 2020 | 31,846 | 30,626 | 1,220 | 92 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 126,052 | 95,540 | 30,512 | -13,119 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 121,827 | 88,979 | 32,848 | -12,268 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 84,798 | 57,964 | 26,834 | -10,740 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | 3,954 | 1,054 | 2,900 | 17 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | The Netherlands | 2020 | 20,252 | 21,310 | -1,058 | 12 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 21,159 | 17,340 | 3,819 | -851 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 21,795 | 16,623 | 5,172 | -893 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 7,418 | 6,620 | 798 | -551 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | 470 | 254 | 216 | -5 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | The Netherlands | 2020 | 9,143 | 7,174 | 1,969 | -89 |
| Total male and female | Total | Widowed | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 640 | 535 | 105 | -14 |
| Total male and female | Total | Widowed | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 662 | 620 | 42 | -18 |
| Total male and female | Total | Widowed | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 167 | 188 | -21 | -12 |
| Total male and female | Total | Widowed | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Widowed | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | 26 | 22 | 4 | 1 |
| Total male and female | Total | Widowed | The Netherlands | 2020 | 414 | 269 | 145 | 6 |
| Total male and female | Total | Divorced | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 3,685 | 3,359 | 326 | -34 |
| Total male and female | Total | Divorced | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 3,812 | 3,599 | 213 | -74 |
| Total male and female | Total | Divorced | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 1,249 | 1,135 | 114 | -167 |
| Total male and female | Total | Divorced | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Divorced | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | 285 | 120 | 165 | 8 |
| Total male and female | Total | Divorced | The Netherlands | 2020 | 2,037 | 1,873 | 164 | 163 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Total marital status | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 653 | 581 | 72 | -47 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Total marital status | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 612 | 577 | 35 | -47 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Total marital status | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 376 | 12 | 364 | 3 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Total marital status | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Total marital status | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | 38 | 1 | 37 | 0 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Total marital status | The Netherlands | 2020 | 52 | 561 | -509 | -50 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Never married | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 653 | 581 | 72 | -47 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Never married | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 612 | 577 | 35 | -47 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Never married | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 376 | 12 | 364 | 3 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Never married | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Never married | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | 38 | 1 | 37 | 0 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Never married | The Netherlands | 2020 | 52 | 561 | -509 | -50 |
| Total male and female | 0 year | Married | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Married | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Married | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Married | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Married | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Married | The Netherlands | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Widowed | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Widowed | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Widowed | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Widowed | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Widowed | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Widowed | The Netherlands | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Divorced | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Divorced | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Divorced | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Divorced | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Divorced | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 0 year | Divorced | The Netherlands | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Total marital status | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 1,395 | 1,323 | 72 | -121 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Total marital status | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 1,327 | 1,324 | 3 | -121 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Total marital status | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 766 | 105 | 661 | -6 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Total marital status | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Total marital status | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | 89 | 8 | 81 | 0 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Total marital status | The Netherlands | 2020 | 224 | 1,180 | -956 | -112 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Never married | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 1,395 | 1,323 | 72 | -121 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Never married | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 1,327 | 1,324 | 3 | -121 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Never married | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 766 | 105 | 661 | -6 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Never married | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Never married | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | 89 | 8 | 81 | 0 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Never married | The Netherlands | 2020 | 224 | 1,180 | -956 | -112 |
| Total male and female | 1 year | Married | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Married | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Married | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Married | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Married | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Married | The Netherlands | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Widowed | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Widowed | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Widowed | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Widowed | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Widowed | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Widowed | The Netherlands | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Divorced | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Divorced | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Divorced | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Divorced | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Divorced | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 1 year | Divorced | The Netherlands | 2020 | ||||
| Total male and female | 2 years | Total marital status | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 1,160 | 1,263 | -103 | -120 |
| Total male and female | 2 years | Total marital status | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 1,132 | 1,232 | -100 | -124 |
| Total male and female | 2 years | Total marital status | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 578 | 190 | 388 | -24 |
| Total male and female | 2 years | Total marital status | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | 2 years | Total marital status | (former) Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 2020 | 96 | 9 | 87 | -1 |
| Total male and female | 2 years | Total marital status | The Netherlands | 2020 | 250 | 982 | -732 | -93 |
| Total male and female | 2 years | Never married | Western countries of birth (incl Neth... | 2020 | 1,160 | 1,263 | -103 | -120 |
| Total male and female | 2 years | Never married | Europe (incl The Netherlands) | 2020 | 1,132 | 1,232 | -100 | -124 |
| Total male and female | 2 years | Never married | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2020 | 578 | 190 | 388 | -24 |
| Total male and female | 2 years | Never married | Netherlands Antilles (old) | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||||
Dataset is not available.
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. - 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.