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Immigration more than halved in the weeks following the implementation of COVID-19 measures and the number of Syrian refugees fell to a low in those weeks.

A written request to be recognised as a refugee under the 1951 Geneva Convention.

People with a foreign background

A person who has submitted a request to enter the Netherlands as a refugee

In May, the number of immigrants was down by nearly half year-on-year, just as in April. Almost 9 thousand immigrants settled in the Netherlands last month.

The Netherlands in Numbers, 2020 is the successor to Trends in the Netherlands and the Statistical Yearbooks and Pocket Books.

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...

In Q1 2020, the population of the Netherlands grew less rapidly than in the same quarter last year. 15.5 thousand inhabitants were added, i.e. 8.7 thousand down on Q1 2019.

Monthly statistics, size of the Dutch population and births, deaths, external migration, marriages, divorces and requests for asylum,

Immigration from Syria has risen since the end of 2015.

Cohort study on asylum migrants who arrived in the Netherlands between Jan. 2014 and July 2017.

In 2017, more following family members than asylum seekers from Eritrea arrived in the Netherlands.

Family reunion is still the main reason for migration, but labour and asylum are rising.

Record number of immigrants (235 thousand) and emigrants (154 thousand) in 2017, highest net migration (81 thousand).

In 2019, the population of the Netherlands grew by an estimated 132 thousand people to a total of over 17.4 million.

The number of native British people who moved to the Netherlands from the UK rose again in 2019, while the number of native Dutch people migrating to the UK declined further.

Mapping migrant flows with satellites and social media

Trends in the Netherlands provides figures over 2015 on topics such as population

In the first three quarters of 2019, the population of the Netherlands grew by 102 thousand, over 23 thousand more than in the same period last year and almost the same as population growth over the...

In 2015 there were over 60 thousand family migrants of whom half were from EU countries. Of those aged 20 and up, 40% were in work one year after their arrival. This was still 37% in 2005.

Refugee selected in first instance by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and subsequently invited by the Dutch government to settle in the Netherlands. This person will get a...

Departure by an asylum seeker who has exhausted all legal procedures, where the travel documents are sent to the port of departure to verify that the person leaves the Netherlands.

A minor who has applied for asylum and who was not accompanied or cared for by parents or adult relatives when he/she came to the country.

Police check on asylum seekers who have exhausted all legal procedures and who have to leave on their own. The police check the last-known address to see if the person has actually left.