External migration; sex, age, marital status, country of birth; 1995-2022

External migration; sex, age, marital status, country of birth; 1995-2022

Sex Age Marital status Country of birth Periods Immigration (number) Emigration including administrative c... (number) Net migration including administrativ... (number) Administrative entries (number) Administrative removal (number) Net administrative corrections (number)
Total male and female Total Total marital status Total 2022 403,108 179,310 223,798 13,970 37,060 -23,090
Total male and female Total Total marital status Unknown country of birth 2022 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Africa 2022 23,586 6,325 17,261 1,271 2,670 -1,399
Total male and female Total Total marital status America 2022 29,328 12,926 16,402 1,478 2,558 -1,080
Total male and female Total Total marital status Asia 2022 68,449 17,686 50,763 964 2,953 -1,989
Total male and female Total Total marital status Europe (incl The Netherlands) 2022 280,178 141,339 138,839 10,236 28,800 -18,564
Total male and female Total Total marital status GIPS countries (European Union) 2022 26,993 14,553 12,440 265 2,036 -1,771
Total male and female Total Total marital status Middle and Eastern European EU countries 2022 62,574 35,269 27,305 1,080 10,098 -9,018
Total male and female Total Total marital status European Union (excluding Netherlands) 2022 115,693 68,507 47,186 1,654 13,595 -11,941
Total male and female Total Total marital status Oceania 2022 1,567 1,034 533 21 79 -58
Total male and female Total Total marital status Afghanistan 2022 3,709 431 3,278 143 220 -77
Total male and female Total Total marital status Albania 2022 604 214 390 10 49 -39
Total male and female Total Total marital status Algeria 2022 620 90 530 15 43 -28
Total male and female Total Total marital status American Samoa 2022 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status American Virgin Islands 2022 1 3 -2 0 1 -1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Andorra 2022 9 9 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Angola 2022 204 117 87 40 61 -21
Total male and female Total Total marital status Anguilla 2022 2 0 2 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Antarctica 2022 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Antigua and Barbuda 2022 3 1 2 1 1 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Armenia 2022 676 182 494 19 50 -31
Total male and female Total Total marital status Argentina 2022 1,351 579 772 6 43 -37
Total male and female Total Total marital status Aruba 2022 1,290 525 765 66 104 -38
Total male and female Total Total marital status Australia 2022 1,185 771 414 14 64 -50
Total male and female Total Total marital status Austria 2022 890 645 245 14 35 -21
Total male and female Total Total marital status Azerbaijan 2022 853 182 671 21 50 -29
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bahamas 2022 5 6 -1 0 1 -1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bahrain 2022 36 18 18 0 3 -3
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bangladesh 2022 1,020 271 749 15 108 -93
Total male and female Total Total marital status Barbados 2022 14 1 13 1 0 1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Belarus 2022 932 143 789 4 36 -32
Total male and female Total Total marital status Belgium 2022 3,939 2,606 1,333 61 203 -142
Total male and female Total Total marital status Belize 2022 8 3 5 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Benin 2022 18 10 8 2 2 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bermuda 2022 4 9 -5 0 1 -1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bhutan 2022 11 14 -3 0 3 -3
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bolivia 2022 130 56 74 2 14 -12
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022 406 257 149 37 62 -25
Total male and female Total Total marital status Botswana 2022 20 15 5 0 2 -2
Total male and female Total Total marital status Brazil 2022 4,435 1,637 2,798 70 182 -112
Total male and female Total Total marital status British Indian Ocean Territory 2022 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status British Virgin Islands 2022 1 1 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Brunei 2022 21 14 7 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Bulgaria 2022 10,823 5,296 5,527 200 1,787 -1,587
Total male and female Total Total marital status Burkina Faso 2022 27 8 19 6 4 2
Total male and female Total Total marital status Burundi 2022 48 35 13 17 19 -2
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cambodia 2022 33 17 16 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cameroon 2022 195 79 116 9 34 -25
Total male and female Total Total marital status Canada 2022 1,230 655 575 32 42 -10
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cape Verde 2022 212 76 136 38 50 -12
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cayman Islands 2022 1 2 -1 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Central African Republic 2022 3 3 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Chad 2022 6 4 2 0 2 -2
Total male and female Total Total marital status Channel Islands 2022 19 7 12 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Chile 2022 500 280 220 5 28 -23
Total male and female Total Total marital status China 2022 6,492 3,349 3,143 65 521 -456
Total male and female Total Total marital status Colombia 2022 1,536 681 855 40 126 -86
Total male and female Total Total marital status Comoros 2022 3 1 2 0 1 -1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Congo 2022 33 9 24 8 5 3
Total male and female Total Total marital status Congo (Democratic Republic) 2022 268 141 127 28 74 -46
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cook Islands 2022 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Costa Rica 2022 176 56 120 1 3 -2
Total male and female Total Total marital status Croatia 2022 1,353 592 761 12 100 -88
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cuba 2022 161 78 83 6 20 -14
Total male and female Total Total marital status Curaçao 2022 3,726 1,231 2,495 568 651 -83
Total male and female Total Total marital status Czechoslovakia (old) 2022 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status (former) Czechoslovakia 2022 2,988 1,834 1,154 42 360 -318
Total male and female Total Total marital status Czech Republic 2022 1,076 659 417 18 105 -87
Total male and female Total Total marital status Cyprus 2022 601 220 381 4 23 -19
Total male and female Total Total marital status Denmark 2022 619 570 49 8 45 -37
Total male and female Total Total marital status Djibouti 2022 9 8 1 4 9 -5
Total male and female Total Total marital status Dominica 2022 6 4 2 1 0 1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Dominican Republic 2022 638 320 318 68 157 -89
Total male and female Total Total marital status Dutch Caribbean 2022 191 111 80 34 40 -6
Total male and female Total Total marital status Ecuador 2022 406 191 215 10 40 -30
Total male and female Total Total marital status Egypt 2022 1,707 410 1,297 42 118 -76
Total male and female Total Total marital status El Salvador 2022 81 30 51 1 9 -8
Total male and female Total Total marital status Equatorial Guinea 2022 7 4 3 0 2 -2
Total male and female Total Total marital status Eritrea 2022 1,139 109 1,030 52 124 -72
Total male and female Total Total marital status Estonia 2022 462 224 238 12 32 -20
Total male and female Total Total marital status Eswatini 2022 12 5 7 0 1 -1
Total male and female Total Total marital status Ethiopia 2022 738 233 505 42 113 -71
Total male and female Total Total marital status Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 2022 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Faroe Islands 2022 1 3 -2 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2022 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Fiji 2022 12 3 9 2 0 2
Total male and female Total Total marital status Finland 2022 966 678 288 4 32 -28
Total male and female Total Total marital status France 2022 5,517 3,717 1,800 75 332 -257
Total male and female Total Total marital status French Guyana 2022 50 24 26 3 7 -4
Total male and female Total Total marital status French Polynesia 2022 3 3 0 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Gabon 2022 5 5 0 0 2 -2
Total male and female Total Total marital status Gambia 2022 145 77 68 6 64 -58
Total male and female Total Total marital status Gaza Strip and West Bank 2022 101 21 80 9 13 -4
Total male and female Total Total marital status Georgia 2022 655 217 438 8 59 -51
Total male and female Total Total marital status Germany 2022 10,305 8,171 2,134 120 610 -490
Total male and female Total Total marital status Ghana 2022 963 323 640 50 158 -108
Total male and female Total Total marital status Gibraltar 2022 0 1 -1 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Greece 2022 5,879 2,609 3,270 68 557 -489
Total male and female Total Total marital status Greenland 2022 1 3 -2 0 0 0
Total male and female Total Total marital status Grenada 2022 4 1 3 1 0 1
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Table explanation


Immigration and emigration in the Netherlands and the administrative corrections by country of birth, sex, age and marital status.

Data available from 1995 to 2022.

Status of the figures:
All data recorded in this publication are final data.

Changes as from 8 March 2024:
None, this table was discontinued.

When will new figures be published?
No longer applicable. This table is succeeded by the table External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth. See section 3.

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 including administrative c...
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.
Net migration including administrativ...
Net migration including administrative corrections:
The number of people arriving minus the number of people departing, including the balance of administrative corrections.
Data on net migration including net administrative corrections give a better impression of the true level of net migration than data on migration 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.

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.
Administrative entries
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.

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.
Administrative removal
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.

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.
Net administrative corrections
Administrative entries minus administrative removals.

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.

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.