Netherlands most immigrants by nationality 2021

In 2021, the largest foreign group of immigrants to the Netherlands came from Poland, with 25,096 immigrants. Syrians, Romanians, Germans and Indians rounded out the top five foreign nationalities for immigrants to the Netherlands in that year.

Largest groups of foriegn immigrants to the Netherlands in 2021, by nationality

Characteristic	Number of people
Poland	25,096
Syria	11,647
Romania	11,071
Germany	10,780
India	9,965
Turkey	9,498
Bulgaria	9,470
Italy	7,246
Spain	7,231
China	6,349
United States	5,287
France	5,096
Greece	4,781
United Kingdom	4,145
Belgium	4,071
South Africa, country	3,829
Brazil	3,742
Curacao	3,511
Portugal	3,406
Hungary	3,136
Morocco	3,013
Russia	2,986
Afghanistan	2,674
Iran	2,580
Suriname	2,300
Indonesia	2,114
Slovakia	1,884
Lithuania	1,843
Latvia	1,821
Ukraine	1,775
Ireland	1,630
Philippines	1,612
Iraq	1,517
Moldavia	1,468
Aruba	1,458
Pakistan	1,435
Colombia	1,428
Japan	1,411
Eritrea	1,382
Nigeria	1,315
Egypt	1,310
Croatia	1,235
Argentina	1,164
Mexico	1,162
Switzerland	1,069
South Korea	1,034
Czech Republic	987
Sweden	972
Thailand	932
Yemen	914

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Release date

July 2022

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Region

Netherlands

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

An immigrant is a person relocating to the Netherlands from abroad. To be counted as an immigrant a person has to register with the municipal authorities, which happens when someone intends to stay in the Netherlands for more than four months,