External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth

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External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth
Sex Age Marital status Country of birth Periods Immigration (number) Emigration (incl. adm. corrections) (number)
Total male and female Total Total marital status America 2022 29,328 12,926
Total male and female Total Total marital status America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 22,649 11,090
Total male and female Total Total marital status American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status American Virgin Islands 2022 1 3
Total male and female Total Total marital status United States of America 2022 6,448 3,903
Total male and female Total Never married America 2022 23,223 9,552
Total male and female Total Never married America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 18,057 8,400
Total male and female Total Never married American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Never married American Virgin Islands 2022 0 3
Total male and female Total Never married United States of America 2022 5,242 3,025
Total male and female Total Married America 2022 5,172 2,679
Total male and female Total Married America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 4,303 2,348
Total male and female Total Married American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Married American Virgin Islands 2022 1 0
Total male and female Total Married United States of America 2022 1,179 808
Total male and female Total Widowed America 2022 96 89
Total male and female Total Widowed America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 26 44
Total male and female Total Widowed American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed American Virgin Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed United States of America 2022 2 8
Total male and female Total Divorced America 2022 837 606
Total male and female Total Divorced America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 263 298
Total male and female Total Divorced American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Divorced American Virgin Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Divorced United States of America 2022 25 62
Total male and female 0 year Total marital status America 2022 154 3
Total male and female 0 year Total marital status America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 121 3
Total male and female 0 year Total marital status American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female 0 year Total marital status American Virgin Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female 0 year Total marital status United States of America 2022 58 1
Total male and female 0 year Never married America 2022 154 3
Total male and female 0 year Never married America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 121 3
Total male and female 0 year Never married American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female 0 year Never married American Virgin Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female 0 year Never married United States of America 2022 58 1
Total male and female 0 year Married America 2022
Total male and female 0 year Married America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022
Total male and female 0 year Married American Samoa 2022
Total male and female 0 year Married American Virgin Islands 2022
Total male and female 0 year Married United States of America 2022
Total male and female 0 year Widowed America 2022
Total male and female 0 year Widowed America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022
Total male and female 0 year Widowed American Samoa 2022
Total male and female 0 year Widowed American Virgin Islands 2022
Total male and female 0 year Widowed United States of America 2022
Total male and female 0 year Divorced America 2022
Total male and female 0 year Divorced America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022
Total male and female 0 year Divorced American Samoa 2022
Total male and female 0 year Divorced American Virgin Islands 2022
Total male and female 0 year Divorced United States of America 2022
Total male and female 1 year Total marital status America 2022 343 29
Total male and female 1 year Total marital status America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 250 16
Total male and female 1 year Total marital status American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female 1 year Total marital status American Virgin Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female 1 year Total marital status United States of America 2022 99 3
Total male and female 1 year Never married America 2022 343 29
Total male and female 1 year Never married America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 250 16
Total male and female 1 year Never married American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female 1 year Never married American Virgin Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female 1 year Never married United States of America 2022 99 3
Total male and female 1 year Married America 2022
Total male and female 1 year Married America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022
Total male and female 1 year Married American Samoa 2022
Total male and female 1 year Married American Virgin Islands 2022
Total male and female 1 year Married United States of America 2022
Total male and female 1 year Widowed America 2022
Total male and female 1 year Widowed America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022
Total male and female 1 year Widowed American Samoa 2022
Total male and female 1 year Widowed American Virgin Islands 2022
Total male and female 1 year Widowed United States of America 2022
Total male and female 1 year Divorced America 2022
Total male and female 1 year Divorced America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022
Total male and female 1 year Divorced American Samoa 2022
Total male and female 1 year Divorced American Virgin Islands 2022
Total male and female 1 year Divorced United States of America 2022
Total male and female 2 years Total marital status America 2022 279 43
Total male and female 2 years Total marital status America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 214 33
Total male and female 2 years Total marital status American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female 2 years Total marital status American Virgin Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female 2 years Total marital status United States of America 2022 94 13
Total male and female 2 years Never married America 2022 279 43
Total male and female 2 years Never married America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 214 33
Total male and female 2 years Never married American Samoa 2022 0 0
Total male and female 2 years Never married American Virgin Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female 2 years Never married United States of America 2022 94 13
Total male and female 2 years Married America 2022
Total male and female 2 years Married America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022
Total male and female 2 years Married American Samoa 2022
Total male and female 2 years Married American Virgin Islands 2022
Total male and female 2 years Married United States of America 2022
Total male and female 2 years Widowed America 2022
Total male and female 2 years Widowed America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022
Total male and female 2 years Widowed American Samoa 2022
Total male and female 2 years Widowed American Virgin Islands 2022
Total male and female 2 years Widowed United States of America 2022
Total male and female 2 years Divorced America 2022
Total male and female 2 years Divorced America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022
Total male and female 2 years Divorced American Samoa 2022
Total male and female 2 years Divorced American Virgin Islands 2022
Total male and female 2 years Divorced United States of America 2022
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.

CBS is in transition towards a new classification of the population by origin. Greater emphasis is now placed on where a person was born, aside from where that person’s parents were born. The term ‘migration background’ is no longer used in this regard. The main categories western/non-western are replaced by categories based on continents and a few countries that share a specific migration history with the Netherlands. The new classification by origin is being introduced gradually in tables and publications on population by origin.

Data available from: 2020

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

Changes as from 8 March 2024:
None, this is a new table. This table succeeds the table External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth; 1995-2022. See section 3.
The following changes have been implemented compared to the discontinued table:
- The countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Turkey have been assigned to the continent of Asia (previously Europe);
- Relative to the discontinued table, minor differences may occur. The differences are due to a change in the production process.

When will new figures be published?
The final figures of 2023 will be added in the second quarter of 2024 in this publication.

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 (incl. adm. corrections)
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.