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

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 Widowed Total 2022 1,644 1,043
Total male and female Total Widowed The Netherlands 2022 415 310
Total male and female Total Widowed Total abroad 2022 1,229 733
Total male and female Total Widowed Africa 2022 89 63
Total male and female Total Widowed America 2022 96 89
Total male and female Total Widowed Asia 2022 322 241
Total male and female Total Widowed Europe (excluding the Netherlands) 2022 720 337
Total male and female Total Widowed Outside Europe 2022 509 396
Total male and female Total Widowed Oceania 2022 2 3
Total male and female Total Widowed European Union (excluding Netherlands) 2022 149 221
Total male and female Total Widowed GIPS countries (European Union) 2022 19 35
Total male and female Total Widowed Middle and Eastern European EU countries 2022 100 117
Total male and female Total Widowed Africa (excluding Morocco) 2022 75 41
Total male and female Total Widowed America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2022 26 44
Total male and female Total Widowed Asia (excluding Indonesia and Turkey) 2022 257 102
Total male and female Total Widowed Antarctica 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Afghanistan 2022 39 3
Total male and female Total Widowed Albania 2022 0 1
Total male and female Total Widowed Algeria 2022 2 1
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 Andorra 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Angola 2022 1 1
Total male and female Total Widowed Anguilla 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Antigua and Barbuda 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Argentina 2022 0 1
Total male and female Total Widowed Armenia 2022 5 2
Total male and female Total Widowed Aruba 2022 5 3
Total male and female Total Widowed Australia 2022 1 2
Total male and female Total Widowed Azerbaijan 2022 11 5
Total male and female Total Widowed Bahamas 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Bahrain 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Bangladesh 2022 0 1
Total male and female Total Widowed Barbados 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Belgium 2022 13 17
Total male and female Total Widowed Belize 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Benin 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Bermuda 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Bhutan 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Bolivia 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022 0 9
Total male and female Total Widowed Botswana 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Brazil 2022 3 10
Total male and female Total Widowed British Indian Ocean Territory 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed British Virgin Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Brunei 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Bulgaria 2022 10 8
Total male and female Total Widowed Burkina Faso 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Burundi 2022 1 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Cambodia 2022 0 1
Total male and female Total Widowed Canada 2022 0 3
Total male and female Total Widowed Dutch Caribbean 2022 2 3
Total male and female Total Widowed Cayman Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Central African Republic 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Chile 2022 0 1
Total male and female Total Widowed China 2022 4 9
Total male and female Total Widowed Colombia 2022 4 3
Total male and female Total Widowed Comoros 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Congo 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Congo (Democratic Republic) 2022 3 3
Total male and female Total Widowed Cook Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Costa Rica 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Cuba 2022 0 1
Total male and female Total Widowed Curaçao 2022 30 16
Total male and female Total Widowed Cyprus 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Denmark 2022 0 4
Total male and female Total Widowed Djibouti 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Dominica 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Dominican Republic 2022 9 9
Total male and female Total Widowed Germany 2022 13 38
Total male and female Total Widowed Ecuador 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Egypt 2022 4 0
Total male and female Total Widowed El Salvador 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Equatorial Guinea 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Eritrea 2022 1 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Estonia 2022 1 1
Total male and female Total Widowed Eswatini 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Ethiopia 2022 13 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Faroe Islands 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2022
Total male and female Total Widowed Fiji 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Philippines 2022 12 15
Total male and female Total Widowed Finland 2022 0 1
Total male and female Total Widowed France 2022 3 7
Total male and female Total Widowed French Guyana 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed French Polynesia 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Gabon 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Gambia 2022 2 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Gaza Strip and West Bank 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Georgia 2022 3 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Ghana 2022 5 4
Total male and female Total Widowed Gibraltar 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Grenada 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Greece 2022 2 2
Total male and female Total Widowed Greenland 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Guadeloupe 2022 0 1
Total male and female Total Widowed Guam 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Guatemala 2022 0 0
Total male and female Total Widowed Guinea 2022 0 0
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.