Australia |
Permanent migrants: Includes persons who arrive from overseas and are entitled to stay permanently in Australia (Settler Arrivals) and persons who while already in Australia on a temporary basis are granted permanent residence status. Settler arrivals include holders of a permanent visa, holders of a temporary (provisional) visa where there is a clear intention to settle, citizens of New Zealand indicating an intention to settle and persons otherwise eligible to settle. Temporary migrants: Temporary entry visas granted (excluding visitors): Working Holiday Maker; International students; Skilled temporary residents and visas for social, cultural, international relations, training and research purposes, and for undertaking highly specialised short-stay work. Outflows: People leaving Australia for 12 months or more in a 16-month period. Net Overseas Migration (NOM). |
Data refer to the fiscal year (July to June of the year indicated). Table B.1 presents the inflow of permanent migrants. From 2014, figures inferior to 5 individuals are not shown. |
Department of Immigration and Border Protection. |
Austria |
Inflows and outflows: Foreigners holding a residence permit and who have actually stayed for at least 3 months. |
Until 2001, data are from local population registers. Starting in 2002, they are from the central population register. The data for 2002-2007 were revised to match with the results of the register-based census of 2006. Outflows include administrative corrections. |
Population Registers, Statistics Austria. |
Belgium |
Inflows: Foreigners holding a residence permit and intending to stay in the country for at least 3 months. Outflows: Include administrative corrections. |
From 2012, asylum seekers are included in inflow and outflow data. |
Population Register, Directorate for Statistics and Economic Information (DGSIE). |
Canada |
Permanent migrants: Total number of people who have been granted permanent resident status in Canada. Temporary migrants: Inflows (first entries) of people who are lawfully in Canada on a temporary basis under the authority of a temporary resident permit. Temporary residents include foreign workers (including seasonal workers), foreign students, refugee claimants, people allowed to remain temporarily in Canada on humanitarian grounds and other individuals entering Canada on a temporary basis who are not under a work or student permit and who are not seeking protection. |
Table B.1 presents the inflow of persons who have acquired permanent resident status only. Country of origin refers to country of last permanent residence. Due to privacy considerations, the figures have been subjected to random rounding. Under this method, all figures in the table are randomly rounded either up or down to multiples of 5. |
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. |
Chile |
Total number of people who obtained a temporary visa for the first time. |
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Register of residence permits, Department of Foreigners and Migration, Ministry of the Interior. |
Czech Republic |
Inflows: Foreigners holding a permanent or a long-term residence permit (visa over 90 days) or who were granted asylum in the given year. Excludes nationals of EU countries if they intend to stay for less than 30 days in the country. Outflows: Departures of foreigners who were staying in the country on a permanent or temporary basis. |
Country of origin refers to country of last permanent or temporary residence. Inflows and outflows of nationals of EU countries are likely to be underestimated. |
Register of Foreigners, Czech Statistical Office. |
Denmark |
Inflows: Foreigners who live legally in Denmark, are registered in the Central population register, and have been living in the country for at least one year. From 2006 on, Statistics Denmark changed its methodology. The data from 2006 on are therefore not comparable with previous years. Outflows: Include administrative corrections. |
Excludes asylum seekers and all those with temporary residence permits. |
Central Population Register, Statistics Denmark. |
Estonia |
Foreigners expecting to stay in the country (out of the country in the case outflows) for at least 12 months. |
The number of nationals from other EU countries who are staying temporarily in the country for at least 12 months may be underestimated. |
Statistics Estonia. |
Finland |
Inflows and outflows: Foreign nationals with a residence permit valid for more than one year and nationals of EU countries who intend to stay in the country for more than 12 months. Nordic citizens who are moving for less than 6 months are not included. |
Includes foreign persons of Finnish origin. Excludes asylum seekers and persons with temporary residence permits. Inflows and outflows of nationals of EU countries can be underestimated. |
Central Population Register, Statistics Finland. |
France |
Based on the first permanent-type permits delivered. Includes status changes from a temporary-type permit to a permanent-type permit. |
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Ministry of the Interior. |
Germany |
Inflows: Foreigners who had previously no registered address in Germany and intending to stay at least one week in the country. Outflows: Deregistrations from population registers of persons who move out of their address without taking a new address in the country and administrative deregistrations. |
Includes asylum seekers living in private households. Excludes inflows of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler). In 2008, local authorities started to purge registers of inactive records. As a result, higher emigration figures were reported from this year. |
Central Population Register, Federal Statistical Office. |
Greece |
Permits valid for more than 12 months delivered to third country nationals. |
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Eurostat. |
Hungary |
Inflows: Foreigners expecting to stay in the country for at least 90 days. Outflows: Foreign citizens having a residence or a settlement document and who left Hungary in the given year with no intention to return, or whose permission’s validity has expired and did not apply for a new one or whose permission was invalidated by authority due to withdrawal. From 2012, it contains estimations. |
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Population Register, Office of Immigration and Nationality, Central Statistical Office. |
Iceland |
Inflows and outflows: Foreigners expecting to stay in the country for a period of at least 12 months. |
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Register of Migration Data, Statistics Iceland. |
Ireland |
Figures are derived from the quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) series.
Inflows:
The estimates relate to those persons resident in the country at the time of the survey and who were living abroad one year before (Table A.1)
Outflows:
Persons resident in the country at a point in the previous twelve-month period who are now living abroad (Table A.2). |
All figures are based on May to April of the year indicated. |
Central Statistics Office. |
Israel |
Data refer to permanent immigrants by last country of residence. |
The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. |
Population register, Central Bureau of Statistics. |
Italy |
Inflows and outflows: Transfers of residence. |
Excludes seasonal workers. Administrative corrections are made following censuses (the last census took place in 2011). |
Administrative Population Register (Anagrafe) analysed by ISTAT. |
Japan |
Inflows: Foreigners who entered the country, excluding temporary visitors and re-entries. Outflows: Foreigners who left Japan without re-entry permission. Excludes temporary visitors. |
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Ministry of Justice, Immigration Bureau. |
Korea |
Data refer to long-term inflows/outflows (more than 90 days). |
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Ministry of Justice. |
Latvia |
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Population Register, Central Statistical Office. |
Lithuania |
Foreign citizens who have been residing in the country for at least 6 months. |
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Lithuanian Department of Migration. |
Luxembourg |
Inflows: Foreigners holding a residence permit and intending to stay in the country for at least 12 months. Outflows: Foreigners who left the country with the intention to live abroad for at least 12 months. |
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Central Population Register, Central Office of Statistics and Economic Studies (Statec). |
Mexico |
Until 2012, number of foreigners who are issued an immigrant permit for the first time ("inmigrante" FM2). 2011 and 2012 also include new and former refugees who obtained immigrant status ("inmigrado"). From 2013 on, number of foreigners who are issued a permanent residence card, as the 2011 Migration Act came into effect. |
The sharp increase in the numbers of 2013 is explained by administrative changes with the implementation of the 2011 Migration Act. Most of these "new residents" are foreigners already in the country on a temporary status. |
National Migration Institute, Unit for Migration Policy, Ministry of Interior. |
Netherlands |
Inflows: Foreigners holding a residence permit and intending to stay in the country for at least four of the next six months. Outflows: Outflows include the "net administrative corrections", i.e. unreported emigration of foreigners. |
Inflows exclude asylum seekers who are staying in reception centres. |
Population Register, Central Bureau of Statistics. |
New Zealand |
Inflows: Permanent and long-term arrivals to live in the country for 12 months or more. Outflows: Permanent and long-term departures: Foreign-born returning to live overseas after a stay of 12 months or more in New Zealand. |
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Statistics New Zealand. |
Norway |
Inflows: Foreigners holding a residence or work permit and intending to stay in the country for at least 6 months. Outflows: Foreigners holding a residence or work permit and who stayed in the country for at least 6 months. |
Asylum seekers are registered as immigrants only after having settled in a Norwegian municipality following a positive outcome of their application. An asylum seeker whose application has been rejected will not be registered as an ‘immigrant’, even if the application process has taken a long time and the return to the home country is delayed for a significant period. |
Central Population Register, Statistics Norway. |
Poland |
Number of permanent and "fixed-term" residence permits issued. Since 26 August 2006, nationals of European Union Member States and their family members are no longer issued residence permits. However, they still need to register their stay in Poland, provided that they are planning to stay in Poland for more than three months. |
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Office for Foreigners. |
Portugal |
Data based on residence permits. From 2008 on, following the new legislation, the data include the new residence permits delivered to every foreigner with a citizenship from an EU or non-EU country. Includes continuous regularisation. |
In 2006 and 2007, figures include long-term visas for non-EU 25 citizens and new residence titles attributed to EU 25 citizens (who do not need a visa). |
Immigration and Border Control Office (SEF); National Statistical Institute (INE); Ministry of Foreign Affairs (before 2008). |
Russia |
Grants of temporary and permanent residence permits. Data from 2006 to 2010 refer to the country of previous residence. Data from 2011 refer to citizenship. |
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Federal Migration Service. |
Slovak Republic |
Inflows and outflows: Includes permanent, temporary, and tolerated residents. |
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Register of Foreigners, Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. |
Slovenia |
Inflows: Number of first temporary residence permits. Outflows: Temporary and permanent migrants declaring moving abroad. |
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Central Population Register, Ministry of the Interior, and National Statistical Office. |
Spain |
Inflows and outflows: Changes in regular residence for at least 12 months declared by foreigners. |
From 2008 on, data correspond to Migration Statistics estimates that are based on the number of registrations and cancellations in the Municipal Registers by all foreigners, irrespective of their legal status. |
Municipal Population Registers (Padron municipal de habitantes), National Statistical Institute (INE). |
Sweden |
Inflows: Foreigners holding a residence permit and intending to stay in the country for at least one year (including nationals of EU countries). Outflows: Departures of foreigners who have the intention to live abroad for at least one year. |
Excludes asylum seekers and temporary workers. |
Population Register, Statistics Sweden. |
Switzerland |
Inflows: Foreigners holding a permanent or an annual residence permit. Holders of an L-permit (short duration) are also included if their stay in the country is longer than 12 months. Outflows: Departures of foreigners holding a permanent or an annual residence permit and of holders of an L-permit who stayed in the country for at least one year. The data include administrative corrections, so that, for example, foreigners whose permit expired are considered to have left the country. |
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Register of Foreigners, Federal Office of Migration. |
Turkey |
Residence permits issued for the first time to foreigners intending to stay 12 months or more in the country. |
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General Directorate of Security, Ministry of the Interior. |
United Kingdom |
Inflows: Non-British citizens admitted to the United Kingdom. Outflows: Non-British citizens leaving the territory of the United Kingdom. |
Statistics whose coefficient of variation exceeds 30% are not shown separately but grouped under "Other countries". |
International Passenger Survey, Office for National Statistics. |
United States |
Permanent migrants: Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) ("green card" recipients). Temporary migrants: Data refer to non-immigrant visas issued, excluding visitors and transit passengers (B and C visas) and crewmembers (D visas). Includes family members. |
Includes persons already present in the United States who changed status. Certain LPRs are admitted conditionally and are required to remove their conditional status after two years; they are counted as LPRs when they first enter. Data cover the fiscal year (October to September of the year indicated). |
Office of Immigration Statistics, Department of Homeland Security; Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security. |