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Situation in which children under 18 share in the naturalisation of the parent or parents. Minors aged over 12 have a say in this. A child won’t be naturalised against its wishes.

95 percent of inhabitants holds Dutch citizenship. In 2015, 22 thousand residents were naturalised to Dutch citizens.

Population, households, population growth, births, mortality, marriages, marriage dissolutions, change of nationality and migration

Obtaining Dutch citizenship by granting independent or co-naturalisation

Annual study of register data on reception and integration of asylum migrants arriving in the Netherlands since 2014, 2014-2020

Nearly 23 thousand people received the Dutch nationality through naturalisation in 2009.

In March 2020, the number of first asylum requests stood at 1,025.

Granting Dutch nationality to non-Dutch adults.

In 2019, the Netherlands received 22.5 thousand asylum seekers and 4.2 thousand following family members. The total is marginally lower than in 2018. Syrians and Eritreans still constitute the...

In Q3 2019, the Netherlands received 5,910 asylum seekers and 1,200 following family members.

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 Q1 2019, the Netherlands received 5,405 asylum seekers and 840 following family members. Both numbers were lower than in the preceding quarter.

Obtaining the Dutch nationality by recognition, adoption, option and naturalisation (individual or co-naturalisation).

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

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

The number of asylum seekers and following family members from Turkey rose from 185 to 330 between Q1 and Q2 2018. They represented the third largest group, after Syrians and Eritreans.

In 2017, the Netherlands welcomed more than 2,265 invited refugees. Many of these refugees were able to settle in the Netherlands as part of the EU-Turkey Statement of 18 March 2016.

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

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

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

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

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