External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth
| Sex | Age | Marital status | Country of birth | Periods | Immigration (number) | Emigration (incl. adm. corrections) (number) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | The Netherlands | 2023 | 25,655 | 42,454 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Europe (excluding the Netherlands) | 2023 | 166,833 | 106,106 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2023 | 112,603 | 77,140 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Middle and Eastern European EU countries | 2023 | 60,164 | 40,781 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | America and Oceania (excluding Suri... | 2023 | 23,424 | 12,959 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Asia (excluding Indonesia and Turkey) | 2023 | 70,992 | 21,257 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | American Virgin Islands | 2023 | 4 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Andorra | 2023 | 10 | 12 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Antigua and Barbuda | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2023 | 319 | 299 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | British Virgin Islands | 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Cayman Islands | 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Cook Islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Faroe Islands | 2023 | 1 | 3 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Finland | 2023 | 849 | 759 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Gaza Strip and West Bank | 2023 | 148 | 28 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Greenland | 2023 | 0 | 2 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Ireland | 2023 | 1,710 | 1,081 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Iceland | 2023 | 116 | 96 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Channel Islands | 2023 | 13 | 6 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Marshall-islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | New Zealand | 2023 | 556 | 306 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Norfolk Islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Poland | 2023 | 25,151 | 18,231 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Rwanda | 2023 | 86 | 51 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | St Kitts and Nevis | 2023 | 4 | 2 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | St Pierre and Miquelon | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Solomon Islands | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Sao Tomé and Principe | 2023 | 20 | 5 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Serbia and Montenegro | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Swaziland | 2023 | ||
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Thailand | 2023 | 999 | 555 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Trinidad and Tobago | 2023 | 66 | 19 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Turks and Caicos islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Uganda | 2023 | 380 | 89 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Remote Islands of the United States | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Wallis and Futuna islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Total marital status | Switzerland | 2023 | 1,021 | 809 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | The Netherlands | 2023 | 17,060 | 29,289 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Europe (excluding the Netherlands) | 2023 | 147,292 | 92,541 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2023 | 104,019 | 68,645 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Middle and Eastern European EU countries | 2023 | 54,790 | 35,795 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | America and Oceania (excluding Suri... | 2023 | 18,971 | 10,182 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Asia (excluding Indonesia and Turkey) | 2023 | 47,717 | 15,569 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | American Virgin Islands | 2023 | 4 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Andorra | 2023 | 9 | 11 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Antigua and Barbuda | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2023 | 211 | 151 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | British Virgin Islands | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Cayman Islands | 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Cook Islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Faroe Islands | 2023 | 1 | 2 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Finland | 2023 | 784 | 702 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Gaza Strip and West Bank | 2023 | 102 | 19 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Greenland | 2023 | 0 | 2 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Ireland | 2023 | 1,638 | 991 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Iceland | 2023 | 110 | 84 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Channel Islands | 2023 | 12 | 6 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Marshall-islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | New Zealand | 2023 | 497 | 229 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Norfolk Islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Poland | 2023 | 22,546 | 15,379 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Rwanda | 2023 | 70 | 42 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | St Kitts and Nevis | 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | St Pierre and Miquelon | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Solomon Islands | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Sao Tomé and Principe | 2023 | 18 | 5 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Serbia and Montenegro | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Swaziland | 2023 | ||
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Thailand | 2023 | 830 | 415 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Trinidad and Tobago | 2023 | 51 | 12 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Turks and Caicos islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Uganda | 2023 | 333 | 78 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Remote Islands of the United States | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Wallis and Futuna islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Never married | Switzerland | 2023 | 964 | 728 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | The Netherlands | 2023 | 6,592 | 10,257 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Europe (excluding the Netherlands) | 2023 | 17,147 | 11,415 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | European Union (excluding Netherlands) | 2023 | 7,297 | 7,075 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Middle and Eastern European EU countries | 2023 | 4,516 | 4,141 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | America and Oceania (excluding Suri... | 2023 | 4,124 | 2,414 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Asia (excluding Indonesia and Turkey) | 2023 | 22,335 | 5,174 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | American Virgin Islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Andorra | 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Antigua and Barbuda | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2023 | 92 | 98 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | British Virgin Islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Cayman Islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Cook Islands | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Faroe Islands | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Finland | 2023 | 60 | 48 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Gaza Strip and West Bank | 2023 | 40 | 8 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Greenland | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Ireland | 2023 | 70 | 83 |
| Total male and female | Total | Married | Iceland | 2023 | 6 | 11 |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||
Table explanation
Immigration and emigration in the Netherlands and the administrative corrections by country of birth, sex, age and marital status.
CBS is in transition towards a new classification of the population by origin. Greater emphasis is now placed on where a person was born, aside from where that person’s parents were born. The term ‘migration background’ is no longer used in this regard. The main categories western/non-western are replaced by categories based on continents and a few countries that share a specific migration history with the Netherlands. The new classification by origin is being introduced gradually in tables and publications on population by origin.
Data available from: 2020
Status of the figures:
All data recorded in this publication are final data.
Changes as from 3 June 2024:
Final figures of 2023 have been added.
Changes as from 8 March 2024:
None, this is a new table. This table succeeds the table External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth; 1995-2022. See section 3.
The following changes have been implemented compared to the discontinued table:
- The countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Turkey have been assigned to the continent of Asia (previously Europe);
- Relative to the discontinued table, minor differences may occur. The differences are due to a change in the production process.
When will new figures be published?
The final figures of 2024 will be added in the third quarter of 2025 in this publication.
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 (incl. adm. corrections)
- 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.