Population — national citizens

In 2018, Netherlands's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2017, reaching 16,140,279.

Netherlands accounts for 3.9% of the EU-27 total of 411,593,089.

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 1.0% (from 15,983,332 in 2013).

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