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In Q2 2019, the Netherlands received 5,205 asylum seekers and 880 following family members. The number of asylum seekers was lower while the number of following relatives was higher than in Q1 2019.

In the first six months of 2019, the population of the Netherlands grew more rapidly than in the same period last year.

In August this year 2,385 asylum seekers and following relatives were registered in the Netherlands.

In 2016, one in five underage asylum seekers travelled unaccompanied. The majority came from Eritrea.

The number of asylum requests has grown dramatically in recent months. In the first six months of 2014, twice as many asylum seekers came to the Netherlands as in the same period last year. In fact,...

Of the asylum seekers who obtained a residence permit in 2014 and were subject to the integration requirement, 58 percent had passed the civic integration exam on reference date 1 October 2018. Two...

Out of the asylum seekers who obtained a residence permit in 2014, 11 percent were in work after 30 months; 84 percent of status holders were benefit recipients.

The number of asylum requests increased again in 2018, with a notable rise in the number of Turkish citizens filing asylum applications.

Requests for asylum by sex and age By country of citizenship

In Q3 2018, the number of asylum seekers and following family members was up on Q2 as well as on 2017.

Background file on population and immigration.

Dossier page on socioeconomic status of migrants

A total of 29 thousand Syrians registered as residents of a Dutch municipality in 2014 and 2015. Syrian immigrants are young compared to other recent immigrants in the Netherlands and they often live...

In Q1 2018, 4.2 thousand asylum seekers and 2.1 thousand following family members were registered in the Netherlands.

There were fewer asylum applicants and following relatives of asylum statusholders in January 2017.

November had more asylum requests by relatives and slightly fewer first-time applications than in October.

3.5 thousand asylum seekers and relatives registered in October of whom 390 from Morocco and 270 from Algeria.

The population of the Netherlands grew by more than 32 thousand in the first six months of 2018. This is slightly less than in the same period last year, when 35 thousand residents were added on...

In May 2016, 1,420 asylum seekers were registered, slightly more than in April but less than in May last year.

In 2015 a total of 56.9 thousand asylum seekers and following family members applying to be reunited with their families were registered in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands received 4.4 thousand asylum seekers and 2.3 thousand following relatives in Q3 2017.

The Netherlands received 16,145 first asylum requests in 2017; 14,490 following family members arrived

The Netherlands had nearly 17.1 million inhabitants on 1 Januari 2017, over 110 thousand up from 1 January 2016.

Approximately 500 refugees are invited each by the government to settle in the Netherlands. Over the past half decade, many refugees have arrived from countries like Iraq, Myanmar and Ethiopia.