How many undocumented migrants were deported from EU member states in 2025 by country?

1. What the official EU statistics actually cover and what they don’t

Eurostat’s enforcement series distinguishes between “orders to leave” (administrative decisions) and “effective returns” (people physically removed to third countries); its Q3 2025 release reports 115,440 orders to leave and 34,155 effective returns in that quarter, signalling a large gap between decisions and carried‑out removals ^[1]. The Eurostat interactive migration publication aggregates migration and asylum indicators for 2025 but the material supplied here does not include a downloadable, final by‑country full‑year deportation table for 2025 that would answer “by country” for the entire year ^{[2] [1]}.

2. What can be reported from the provided sources at the country level (Q3 2025 snapshot)

For Q3 2025 Eurostat identifies France, Germany and Greece as accounting for nearly half of all orders to leave: France reported 33,760 ordered to leave, Germany 12,510 and Greece 10,175 — figures that reflect administrative decisions, not necessarily completed removals ^[1]. Eurostat’s Q3 release gives the EU‑wide number of effective returns but the publicised snippet does not include a country‑by‑country breakdown of those effective returns in the provided extract, so country‑level completed‑deportation counts for Q3 cannot be cited from these excerpts ^[1].

3. Independent reporting and context on trends in 2025

Contemporary reporting and analysts noted an overall decline in irregular arrivals and asylum claims in 2025 — Frontex detections and EUAA applications fell during the year — which simultaneously changed the dynamics of returns and removals, with some member states stepping up forced removals and others relying more on assisted or voluntary return programmes ^{[3] [4] [5]}. Media and think‑tank pieces point to rising removal activity in certain countries — Germany reported a sharp rise in 2025 deportations relative to prior years and said 12,000 had been removed in the first half of 2025 alone — but these are national statements or press reporting rather than consolidated EU‑level, country‑by‑country end‑of‑year tables ^{[6] [7]}.

4. Why a definitive "2025 by country" deportation list is not deliverable from the supplied reporting

The supplied Eurostat extracts provide quarterly EU totals and selected country figures for “orders to leave” and give an EU aggregate for effective returns in Q3 2025, but they do not include a full, validated list of effective returns per member state covering the whole of 2025 in the material presented here — therefore a complete by‑country count for 2025 cannot be responsibly asserted from these sources ^{[1] [2] [5]}. Partial country counts and estimates exist from national ministries, media accounts and secondary datasets, but combining them into a single authoritative EU table requires access to Eurostat’s detailed country database or each member state’s official end‑of‑year return statistics, neither of which are contained in the supplied reporting ^{[2] [1]}.

5. Where to look next and how to interpret disparate numbers

The most reliable route to a country‑by‑country answer is to query Eurostat’s full enforcement‑of‑immigration database (the source for the Q3 release) and national interior/home affairs ministries’ 2025 return statistics; analysts should compare “ordered to leave” with “effectively returned,” watch for whether figures include returns to other EU states as well as third‑country removals, and note many NGOs and civil‑liberties groups flag potential under‑reporting of coerced returns or problematic practices tied to accelerated removal targets ^{[1] [5] [8]}. Where rapid numbers circulate in the press, corroboration against Eurostat’s country breakdown or national annual reports is essential.