EU Migration: emigration from EU member states by citizenship of emigrants 2021

As of 2021, Germany and Spain were the European Union countries with the greatest number of emigrants - that is, people leaving the country during that year. Of Germany's roughly 870,000 emigrants, around half were from non-EU countries, while another 290,000 were from EU member states. Spain similarly saw a larger majority of its emigrants being from outside the EU, with around 346,000 non-EU residents emigrating in 2021.

On the other hand, some EU countries exhibited a quite different trend in the year, with Romania, Ireland, Greece, and Portugal all having their own citizens as the group which emigrated in the largest quantities. These are countries which have over the long-term have shown a trend towards their citizens emigrating to other EU countries for work, often returning home after a couple of years abroad.