Population change - Demographic balance and crude rates at national level

In 1978, Netherlands's population change decreased by 4.3% compared to 1977, reaching 4.4.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 4.0.

Netherlands ranks 15th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 30.2% (from 6.3 in 1973).

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