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Temporary residence permits; purpose of stay and nationality
First granted residence permits, asylum and motiv Nationality
Migrants who arrived in last 10 years are staying for longer
More than half of non-Dutch migrants leave within five years of arriving in the Netherlands.
External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth
Immigration, emigration and the administrative corrections in The Netherlands by counrty of birth, sex, age and marital status
Lower immigration in 2024, particularly among knowledge migrants
A total of 316 thousand migrants from other countries arrived in the Netherlands in 2024.
Migrants from India are staying longer in the Netherlands
Migrants from India are more likely to remain in the Netherlands, and for longer than they did in previous years.
Fewer immigrant arrivals in 2023, particularly refugees from Ukraine
A total of 336 thousand immigrants arrived in the Netherlands in 2023, 68 thousand fewer than in 2022.
Non-EU labour migrants are often male knowledge migrants
At the end of 2021, 87 thousand labour migrants from countries outside the European Union or European Free Trade Association (Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland and Sweden) were residing in the...
How many residents of the Netherlands have a non-Dutch background?
Answer tot the question how many residents of the Netherlands were born abroad?
How many people immigrate to the Netherlands?
In 2021, 250,792 persons immigrated to the Netherlands. This was 29,939 more than the figure for 2020. In addition, 142,517 persons emigrated from the Netherlands, 9,977 less than one year earlier.
Work and family reunification main reasons for immigration
In 2018, the Netherlands received 191 thousand non-Dutch immigrants. They included 110 thousand people from EU/EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland); the main migration...
Study migration from the Caribbean to the European Netherlands
From 2013 up to and including 2017, a total of 392 young adults who were born in the former Netherlands Antilles or Aruba left the Caribbean Netherlands to stay in the European Netherlands.