{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"europe-net-migration-by-country","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/europe-net-migration-by-country","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/europe-net-migration-by-country/","title":"Net Migration in Europe by Country (2025)","description":"Net migration for 37 European countries in 2025: Spain received the most at 582.9 thousand, Albania lost the most at -28.5 thousand. 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Note that this is net migration in absolute terms, so large countries dominate the top of the table by construction. Relative to population, the smaller receiving countries — Malta, Cyprus, Luxembourg and Ireland — take in considerably more per head."},{"question":"What does net migration include?","answer":"Eurostat derives net migration as the residual between the annual population change and natural change (births minus deaths), so it includes both actual migration flows and the statistical adjustment that reconciles population registers with census results. That residual definition means a register clean-up or a census re-basing can show up as a migration spike. Where a country has revised its population base in the latest year, treat its figure as provisional."},{"question":"Which European countries are losing people to emigration?","answer":"Albania, Estonia, Latvia and Montenegro recorded net outflows in 2025. The scale is smaller than during the post-2008 emigration wave, when the Baltics and the western Balkans lost people at several times the current pace, but the direction has not reversed. For these countries, emigration compounds an already negative natural change."}]}