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ATLAS OF MIGRATION 2020 / MIGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

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DEMOGRAPHY [at 1st January] (Eurostat)

OVERVIEW [at 1st January] (Eurostat) RESIDENCE PERMITS (Eurostat)

ASYLUM [1st Instance] (Eurostat)

SCHENGEN VISAS (MigrationandHomeAairs) IRREGULAR MIGRATION (Eurostat)

Population - 2019 (in thousands)

Thelargerdonutchartshowsthenumberofpeopleresidinginthe

MSbybroadgroupofcitizenship.Thegroupsare‘Nationals’,‘EU

Mobile’,‘Non-EU’(whichincludesalso‘Stateless’and‘Unknown’).

Thetotalpopulationofthecountryisinthecentre.

Annualows-2018(inthousands)

Thetwosmallerchartsshowthescaleofmigrationtoandfrom

theMS.The topchartshows thenumberof peoplewhohave

immigratedtotheMSoverthelastyear.‘WithinEU’immigration

referstopeoplewhoarecitizensof otherEUMSs.‘OutsideEU’

immigrationreferstonon-EUcitizens.

Thebottomchartshowsthenumberofpeoplewhohaveemigrated

fromtheMS overthelast year,movingtoanotherMS (‘within

EU’)or toa non-EUcountry/territory (‘outsideEU’). Thetotal

numbersofimmigrantsandemigrantsareinthecentreofeach

respectivechart.

First residence permits issued during the year

Thetopchartshowsthenumberofpeoplewhohavereceiveda

particularresidencepermitforthersttimeduringayear,forthe

lastfouryears(annualowofresidentpermits).Thereasonsfor

issuingpermitsare‘Work’,‘Family’,‘Education’or‘Other’(which

includesinternationalprotection).

Valid residence permits at the end of the year

Thebottomchartshowsthenumberofmigrantsresidinginthe

MSwithdierenttypes ofresidencepermits andwithpermits

thatarevalidforatleastveyears(nationalandEUlongterm

residencepermits).Thisshowsthetotalnumberofpermitsheldby

peopleinthecountryattheendofthereferenceyear(themigrant

stock).Thereasonsforvalidpermitsarethesamelistedabove.

Visas applied for, issued and not issued (in thousands)

EachdonutchartshowsthepercentageofSchengenvisasissued

andnotissuedperyear.Thenumberinthecentreshowsthetotal

numberofvisasappliedforduringeachyear.

Thegurereferstothe sumofuniformvisas(includingMEVs),

LTVs,andATVs.Fordetaileddescription,seeTechnicalNotes.

NotethatforRomania,Bulgaria&CroatiathedataonLTVvisas

is missing.

Persons ordered to leave, persons returned and return rate

Thebarshows thenumberof peoplewhohave been‘Ordered

toleave’theMSandthecircleshowsthose‘Returnedtoathird

country/territory’followinganordertoleaveperyear.

Return rate

Thereturnrateontherightiscalculatedastheratiobetweenthe

numberofpeoplereturnedtoathirdcountry/territoryfollowing

anordertoleaveandthepeoplewhoreceivedanordertoleave.

Sinceitiscalculatedonannualdata,itmightresulthigherthan

100,becauseofadministrativebacklogs.

First time applications

Thechartshowsthenumberofpeoplewho havemadearstapplicationforasyluminthe MSduringayear.Thedatacoversthe

lastyearsandisbrokendownbysex.

Thetotalannualgureisshownontheright.

First instance decisions

ThechartshowsthedistributionofdecisionsonrstasylumapplicationsintheMSbyoutcome:

‘Geneva’for‘Genevaconventionstatus’;‘Subsid.’for‘Subsidiaryprotection’;‘Human.’for‘Humanitarianprotection’;

and‘Reject.’for‘Rejectedapplication’.

Thetotalnumberofdecisionsonrstapplicationsforasylumduringayearisshownontheright.

Thissectioncoverseachofthe27EUMemberStates(MS).

The charts are organised in thematic parts. More detailed

informationisavailable inthe TechnicalNotesat theend of

thissection.

Thedatarefersto 2019.Ifthe datafor2019is notavailable

fromtheoriginalsource,thecorrespondingeldiseithermissing

orindicatedas ‘N/A’.Whenever2019data isnotavailable for

anentirethematicpart,thelatestavailablevaluesareprovided.

Notethatinsomecases,thesumofpercentagesorofindividual

valuesmightnotaddupto100ortothetotalvalue.Thisisdue

toroundingandcondenceintervals.

Population pyramid - 2019 (in thousand)

Thechartshowsthedemographiccompositionofthepopulation

intheMS. Itindicatesthenumber ofpeopleby agegroup,sex

(malesandfemales)andbroadgroupofcitizenship(shownfrom

theoutsidetotheinsideofthepyramid),specically‘Nationals’

(citizensoftheMS),‘EUMobile’(citizensoftheother26MSs)and

‘Non-EU’citizens(whichincludesalso‘Stateless’and‘Unknown’).

TheoriginalEurostatdataisorganisedinve-yearcohortsand

hasbeenaggregatedtoobtainten-yearcohorts.Thedatarefers

tothepopulationasof1stJanuary.

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