First residence permits — education

In 2024, the EU-27 figure for first residence permits was 549,458 .

That is a 0.8% rose versus 2023 (544,840).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 34.6% higher.

Across member states, Spain reported the highest value (117,056, 2024) and Estonia the lowest (418, 2024) — a ratio of 280.0× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst; every value links back to the canonical source.