evidence: Migration to and from the EU [...] In the same year, about 1.1 million people from the EU to a non-EU country. This is also an increase compared with 956 000 people in 2020, and almost back to the [...] At EU level, the difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants resulted in a positive net migration in 2021, meaning that over 1 million more people moved to the EU than moved out.