NL · 2020 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Netherlands, 2020
In 2020, Netherlands's first residence permits issued (total) decreased by 28.0% compared to 2019, reaching 73,511.
Netherlands accounts for 3.2% of the EU-27 total of 2,332,051.
Netherlands ranks 8th 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 15.2% (from 86,691 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.