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Small increase in the number of Portuguese entries in the Netherlands in 2016

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Inês Vidigal

1,961 Portuguese entered the Netherlands in 2016, according to data from the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. That Dutch agency counted a total of 199,091 foreign admissions in the country, with the Portuguese representing 1% of this total. +

After a sharp increase between 2005 and 2008, there was a stabilization of the number of Portuguese entries into the Netherlands, with oscillations around 2,000 people per year, only interrupted by a one-off fall of more than 20% in 2010. The highest value of the series under analysis was recorded in 2013, with 2,079 new entries. After two consecutive years of slight deciding, in 2016 there was a slight increase of 5% in the number of Portuguese entries into the Netherlands.

Link https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/en/dataset/03742eng/table?ts=1521643491734

Cite as Vidigal, Inês (2017), “Small increase in the number of Portuguese entries in the Netherlands in 2016”, Observatório da Emigração. http://observatorioemigracao.pt/np4EN/5866.html

[By Inês Vidigal]

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