External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth

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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 T001019 Total 2023 335,668 198,302
Total male and female Total T001019 The Netherlands 2023 25,655 42,454
Total male and female Total T001019 Total abroad 2023 310,013 155,848
Total male and female Total T001019 Africa 2023 23,116 7,549
Total male and female Total T001019 America 2023 29,773 14,684
Total male and female Total T001019 Asia 2023 88,121 26,201
Total male and female Total T001019 Europe (excluding the Netherlands) 2023 166,833 106,106
Total male and female Total T001019 Outside Europe 2023 143,180 49,742
Total male and female Total T001019 Oceania 2023 2,170 1,308
Total male and female Total T001019 European Union (excluding Netherlands) 2023 112,603 77,140
Total male and female Total T001019 GIPS countries (European Union) 2023 26,926 16,667
Total male and female Total T001019 Middle and Eastern European EU countries 2023 60,164 40,781
Total male and female Total T001019 Africa (excluding Morocco) 2023 19,722 6,320
Total male and female Total T001019 America and Oceania (excluding Suri... 2023 23,424 12,959
Total male and female Total T001019 Asia (excluding Indonesia and Turkey) 2023 70,992 21,257
Total male and female Total T001019 Antarctica 2023 0 0
Total male and female Total T001019 Afghanistan 2023 1,668 424
Total male and female Total T001019 Albania 2023 578 238
Total male and female Total T001019 Algeria 2023 320 182
Total male and female Total T001019 American Samoa 2023 0 0
Total male and female Total T001019 American Virgin Islands 2023 4 0
Total male and female Total T001019 Andorra 2023 10 12
Total male and female Total T001019 Angola 2023 260 116
Total male and female Total T001019 Anguilla 2023 0 1
Total male and female Total T001019 Antigua and Barbuda 2023 0 1
Total male and female Total T001019 Argentina 2023 1,244 706
Total male and female Total T001019 Armenia 2023 392 184
Total male and female Total T001019 Aruba 2023 1,173 571
Total male and female Total T001019 Australia 2023 1,582 977
Total male and female Total T001019 Azerbaijan 2023 631 283
Total male and female Total T001019 Bahamas 2023 8 5
Total male and female Total T001019 Bahrain 2023 51 13
Total male and female Total T001019 Bangladesh 2023 834 623
Total male and female Total T001019 Barbados 2023 6 7
Total male and female Total T001019 Belgium 2023 3,871 2,565
Total male and female Total T001019 Belize 2023 8 1
Total male and female Total T001019 Benin 2023 26 14
Total male and female Total T001019 Bermuda 2023 7 4
Total male and female Total T001019 Bhutan 2023 9 8
Total male and female Total T001019 Bolivia 2023 129 65
Total male and female Total T001019 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2023 319 299
Total male and female Total T001019 Botswana 2023 16 15
Total male and female Total T001019 Brazil 2023 4,140 2,007
Total male and female Total T001019 British Indian Ocean Territory 2023 0 0
Total male and female Total T001019 British Virgin Islands 2023 1 1
Total male and female Total T001019 Brunei 2023 26 20
Total male and female Total T001019 Bulgaria 2023 10,405 6,572
Total male and female Total T001019 Burkina Faso 2023 30 12
Total male and female Total T001019 Burundi 2023 54 35
Total male and female Total T001019 Cambodia 2023 42 12
Total male and female Total T001019 Canada 2023 1,311 891
Total male and female Total T001019 Dutch Caribbean 2023 207 93
Total male and female Total T001019 Cayman Islands 2023 2 1
Total male and female Total T001019 Central African Republic 2023 2 1
Total male and female Total T001019 Chile 2023 486 258
Total male and female Total T001019 China 2023 8,441 4,170
Total male and female Total T001019 Colombia 2023 1,780 763
Total male and female Total T001019 Comoros 2023 2 5
Total male and female Total T001019 Congo 2023 46 34
Total male and female Total T001019 Congo (Democratic Republic) 2023 195 103
Total male and female Total T001019 Cook Islands 2023 0 0
Total male and female Total T001019 Costa Rica 2023 142 76
Total male and female Total T001019 Cuba 2023 186 83
Total male and female Total T001019 Curaçao 2023 3,178 1,302
Total male and female Total T001019 Cyprus 2023 618 276
Total male and female Total T001019 Denmark 2023 649 491
Total male and female Total T001019 Djibouti 2023 17 6
Total male and female Total T001019 Dominica 2023 3 2
Total male and female Total T001019 Dominican Republic 2023 693 283
Total male and female Total T001019 Germany 2023 10,054 8,575
Total male and female Total T001019 Ecuador 2023 387 194
Total male and female Total T001019 Egypt 2023 1,627 442
Total male and female Total T001019 El Salvador 2023 102 19
Total male and female Total T001019 Equatorial Guinea 2023 19 3
Total male and female Total T001019 Eritrea 2023 1,580 151
Total male and female Total T001019 Estonia 2023 401 257
Total male and female Total T001019 Eswatini 2023 8 9
Total male and female Total T001019 Ethiopia 2023 947 220
Total male and female Total T001019 Faroe Islands 2023 1 3
Total male and female Total T001019 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 2023 1 0
Total male and female Total T001019 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2023
Total male and female Total T001019 Fiji 2023 12 6
Total male and female Total T001019 Philippines 2023 2,126 856
Total male and female Total T001019 Finland 2023 849 759
Total male and female Total T001019 France 2023 5,206 4,090
Total male and female Total T001019 French Guyana 2023 54 26
Total male and female Total T001019 French Polynesia 2023 3 6
Total male and female Total T001019 Gabon 2023 14 8
Total male and female Total T001019 Gambia 2023 230 63
Total male and female Total T001019 Gaza Strip and West Bank 2023 148 28
Total male and female Total T001019 Georgia 2023 467 236
Total male and female Total T001019 Ghana 2023 1,114 318
Total male and female Total T001019 Gibraltar 2023 2 4
Total male and female Total T001019 Grenada 2023 2 2
Total male and female Total T001019 Greece 2023 5,466 3,214
Total male and female Total T001019 Greenland 2023 0 2
Total male and female Total T001019 Guadeloupe 2023 36 22
Total male and female Total T001019 Guam 2023 0 2
Total male and female Total T001019 Guatemala 2023 76 34
Total male and female Total T001019 Guinea 2023 142 53
Source: CBS.
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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.