New obliged newcomers per cohort and group
| Cohort | Asylum status holders | Family migrants | Other | Total | Share asylum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18,659 | 6,542 | 821 | 26,022 | 71.7% |
| 2023 | 21,845 | 12,521 | 1,357 | 35,723 | 61.2% |
| 2024 | 24,144 | 11,006 | 1,064 | 36,214 | 66.7% |
| 2025 | 19,754 | 12,358 | 1,236 | 33,348 | 59.2% |
| 2026 | 12,716 | 9,390 | 612 | 22,718 | 56.0% |
| Total | 97,118 | 51,817 | 5,090 | 154,025 | 63.1% |
Asylum applications and family reunification per year (CBS)
| Year | First asylum applications | Repeat applications | Family members joining |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 22,540 | 2,725 | 4,180 |
| 2020 | 13,720 | 1,595 | 3,865 |
| 2021 | 24,740 | 1,815 | 10,120 |
| 2022 | 35,535 | 1,530 | 10,925 |
| 2023 | 38,375 | 1,390 | 10,125 |
| 2024 | 32,175 | 1,585 | 11,880 |
| 2025 | 24,075 | 1,765 | 16,495 |
People included in these figures
- Everyone who received a decision from DUO that they are obliged to integrate under the Wet inburgering 2021. The cohort is the year of that decision, not the year of arrival.
- People under the old Wet inburgering 2013 are not included; that law has no learning routes.
- DUO withholds cells of 1 to 4 people. The figures on this page are built from rows with 0 such cells, so the totals are a lower bound.
- Source: DUO open onderwijsdata, WI 2021 Instroom, Uitstroom en Leerroute (updated October 2026). The dataset is refreshed monthly and runs to the end of the last full month.
- The second table is from CBS (CBS StatLine 83102NED, Asielverzoeken en nareizigers; nationaliteit, geslacht en leeftijd, updated October 2026) and counts asylum applications and family members joining, not people obliged to integrate. An asylum seeker only becomes obliged after a residence permit, usually a year or more later, so the two tables cannot be added together. CBS rounds to multiples of five.
Data last updated: October 2026.
What this means for your exam
Whether the duty applies to you depends on your residence purpose and nationality: see who must do inburgering. Most new newcomers get the B1 route under the Civic Integration Act 2021; the exams that route ends in are on the inburgering exam.
More inburgering statistics
- Inburgering learning routes in numbers: B1, education and Z-route by year
- Learning route by municipality: what the 25 largest gemeenten assign
- Learning route by group: asylum status holders, family migrants and other newcomers
- How many newcomers have finished? Inburgering status per cohort
- No learning route yet: how many newcomers per municipality are waiting for their PIP
- How do newcomers complete inburgering? Exams, Z-route, dispensation and exemption in numbers