Population — national citizens

In 2005, Netherlands's population increased by 0.3% compared to 2004, reaching 15,606,175.

Netherlands ranks 5th out of 20 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.6% (from 15,212,418 in 2000).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.