Learning route per cohort
| Cohort | B1-route | Education route | Z-route (self-reliance) | No route yet | Total | Share B1 route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16,691 | 1,174 | 6,788 | 1,356 | 26,009 | 67.7% |
| 2023 | 23,978 | 1,632 | 7,584 | 2,503 | 35,697 | 72.2% |
| 2024 | 21,725 | 1,960 | 8,212 | 4,306 | 36,203 | 68.1% |
| 2025 | 18,401 | 1,643 | 5,679 | 7,607 | 33,330 | 71.5% |
| 2026 | 5,654 | 602 | 1,351 | 15,083 | 22,690 | 74.3% |
| Total | 86,449 | 7,011 | 29,614 | 30,855 | 153,929 | 70.2% |
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 53 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 newest cohort (2026) is not complete yet: it runs to the reference date. Many people in it are still in the brede intake and therefore have no route yet.
Data last updated: October 2026.
What this means for your exam
The B1 route is the default route under the 2021 act; whether you fall under the duty at all is explained in who must do inburgering, and the exams the route ends in are on the inburgering exam. The three routes are described in the Civic Integration Act 2021.
More inburgering statistics
- Learning route by municipality: what the 25 largest gemeenten assign
- Learning route by group: asylum status holders, family migrants and other newcomers
- How many people must do inburgering? New obliged newcomers per year and per group
- 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