Population — national citizens

In 2015, Netherlands's population increased by 0.3% compared to 2014, reaching 16,053,457.

Netherlands accounts for 3.9% of the EU-27 total of 413,249,567.

Netherlands ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.3% (from 15,839,792 in 2010).

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