Population change - Demographic balance and crude rates at national level

In 1975, Netherlands's population change decreased by 17.5% compared to 1974, reaching 4.7.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 4.5.

Netherlands ranks 17th out of 22 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 52.5% (from 9.9 in 1970).

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