BE · 2020 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits — education
Belgium, 2020
In 2020, Belgium's first residence permits decreased by 34.5% compared to 2019, reaching 5,675.
Belgium accounts for 2.0% of the EU-27 total of 283,675.
Belgium ranks 13th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 10.6% (from 6,345 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.