Charted: EU Emigrants by Country

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Charted: EU Emigrants by Country

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Immigration into the EU has been a hot topic since 2011. In fact, in several EU countries, immigrants make up nearly one-fifth of the population. But what of the EU’s emigration patterns?

We chart out the number of EU emigrants by their country of citizenship in 2022. Data for this visualization is sourced from Eurostat.

Which EU Country Had the Most Emigrants in 2022?

Germany and Spain had the highest number of emigrants in the EU in 2022, both measuring more than half a million people.

Interestingly, while German emigrants prefer moving to Switzerland and Austria, Spanish migrants often end up in Germany.

Here’s a full list of 27 EU member states and their emigration numbers in 2022, both as number of people and as a percentage of the population. Data for Switzerland, Norway, and Liechtenstein has also been included for context, but is not part of the visualization, nor contributes to the overall EU number.

RankCountryEmigrants (2022)% of Population (2022) 1🇩🇪 Germany533,4850.64% 2🇪🇸 Spain531,8891.11% 3🇫🇷 France249,3550.37% 4🇵🇱 Poland228,0060.62% 5🇷🇴 Romania202,3111.06% 6🇮🇹 Italy150,1890.25% 7🇨🇭 Switzerland*122,1231.39% 8🇳🇱 Netherlands109,6160.62% 9🇧🇪 Belgium84,6270.72% 10🇬🇷 Greece80,3070.77% 11🇦🇹 Austria74,2710.82% 12🇩🇰 Denmark62,9271.07% 13🇮🇪 Ireland61,1331.19% 14🇭🇺 Hungary58,4080.61% 15🇸🇪 Sweden50,5920.48% 16🇭🇷 Croatia46,2871.20% 17🇳🇴 Norway*32,5360.60% 18🇨🇿 Czech Republic31,7640.30% 19🇵🇹 Portugal30,9540.30% 20🇸🇮 Slovenia20,9560.99% 21🇨🇾 Cyprus17,9581.43% 22🇱🇺 Luxembourg17,2272.64% 23🇱🇻 Latvia16,6800.89% 24🇫🇮 Finland15,6350.28% 25🇱🇹 Lithuania15,2700.54% 26🇧🇬 Bulgaria13,1750.20% 27🇲🇹 Malta13,1662.48% 28🇪🇪 Estonia9,6570.72% 29🇸🇰 Slovakia4,4680.08% 30🇱🇮 Liechtenstein*4801.22% N/A🇪🇺 EU2,730,3130.61%
*Not in the EU, but part of the European Free Trade Area or the European Economic area. Emigrants counted by country of citizenship, not birth.

As a percentage of the population, Malta and Luxembourg had slightly more than

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