Immigrants not EU/EFTA; migration motive, socio-economic category

This table contains figures for immigrants with a nationality of a country outside the EU or EFTA who have come to the Netherlands. The data are broken down by gender, age group, migration motive, nationality, socio-economic category and duration of stay. The migration motive of immigrants from non-EU/EFTA countries is based on the authorisation of the immigrant by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND). This table lists only immigrants who, at the time of immigration, were nationals of countries that did not currently belong to the European Union (EU) or the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). Immigrants from outside the EU/EFTA need a residence permit from the IND. Immigrants from countries that joined the EU or EFTA in the period 1999-2021 are included in this table if the year of immigration is before the year of accession. Although the United Kingdom left the European Union from 31 January 2020, a withdrawal agreement continued to allow free movement of persons until 31 December 2020. This table therefore shows immigrants from the United Kingdom only from 1 January 2021. For all non-EU/EFTA immigrants, this table examines each year after their entry into the Netherlands whether they still live in the Netherlands and what kind of socio-economic category they belong to. This always happens on the same date. So for someone who came to live in the Netherlands on 12 February 1999, on 12 February 2000 it will be checked if this person is still there and information about his/her socioeconomic category is given. The selection Duration of stay shows for all years the original number of immigrants who came to the Netherlands in the year of immigration. The selection Socio-economic category shows whether someone is still present and what his/her main source of income is. Within the migration motives statistics, CBS distinguishes non-EU/EFTA nationals from labour migration in two subcategories: knowledge and other labour migration. Until the previous update, CBS classified only the IND knowledge migrant scheme as knowledge migration, all other labour migration schemes were typed as other labour migration schemes. From this update, the other schemes associated with the highly skilled migrant scheme will also be characterised as knowledge. This includes, for example, the schemes for self-employed workers, scientific researchers and potential skilled migrants. This means that for all reporting years in this table the subdivision of migrant workers into knowledge and other migrant workers has been adjusted. As a result, the figures on these two types of migrant workers are not necessarily comparable to those previously published. Data available from: 1999 Status of the figures: The figures in this table are provisional. In the figures for the previous periods, information became known later. As a result, small deviations with previously published figures are possible. Amendments as of 30 June 2022: The preliminary figures for 2021 have been added. An additional length of stay has been added to the immigration years 1999 to 2020. When are new figures coming? The 2022 figures will be published in June 2023.