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Long-term residents in Europe

Europe · long-term residence

Permits issued, 2025
1,132,600
Under the EU Directive
23.4%
Change on the previous year
+8.1%
Data as at 24 Oct 2026
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Permits by year

Long-term residence permits issued during the year, all reporting member states.

Long-term residence permits

566k1.13M2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
566k1.13M201620182020202220242025
Data table
2016615,193
2017601,160
2018594,574
2019606,468
2020504,853
2021641,118
20221,021,073
20231,037,726
20241,048,122
20251,132,600
Legal framework, 2025
  1. EU long-term resident status264,625
  2. National permanent schemes867,975
Source: Eurostat (migr_resfirst, migr_resbc11, migr_acq, educ_uoe_mobs02, migr_eirfs, migr_pop1ctz), CC BY 4.0Data as at 2025

Member states

2025.

Permits issued
  1. Spain321,489
  2. Germany312,776
  3. France69,187
  4. Austria67,774
  5. Italy67,400
  6. Netherlands51,703
  7. Belgium45,556
  8. Sweden36,828
  9. Poland34,993
  10. Czechia23,638
  11. Greece17,170
  12. Finland13,177
  13. Norway10,949
  14. Slovenia10,898
  15. Slovakia7,013
  16. Denmark6,636
  17. Switzerland5,941
  18. Hungary5,641
  19. Latvia4,928
  20. Bulgaria4,163
Source: Eurostat (migr_resfirst, migr_resbc11, migr_acq, educ_uoe_mobs02, migr_eirfs, migr_pop1ctz), CC BY 4.0Data as at 2025

Citizenships

2025.

By citizenship
  1. Türkiye109,890
  2. Morocco66,147
  3. Ukraine63,205
  4. Colombia61,053
  5. Syria47,185
  6. Russia42,822
  7. Bosnia and Herzegovina36,949
  8. India35,931
  9. Afghanistan33,415
  10. China31,883
  11. Serbia31,543
  12. Albania28,390
  13. Peru26,075
  14. Pakistan24,180
  15. Kosovo19,896
  16. Venezuela18,227
  17. Cuba18,133
  18. United States15,605
  19. Brazil15,438
  20. Iraq15,193
Source: Eurostat (migr_resfirst, migr_resbc11, migr_acq, educ_uoe_mobs02, migr_eirfs, migr_pop1ctz), CC BY 4.0Data as at 2025

More European permit statistics

Source: Eurostat (migr_resfirst, migr_resbc11, migr_acq, educ_uoe_mobs02, migr_eirfs, migr_pop1ctz), CC BY 4.0Data as at 2025

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