Population change - Demographic balance and crude rates at national level

In 2007, Netherlands's population change decreased by 3.3% compared to 2006, reaching 2.9.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 0.6.

Netherlands ranks 5th out of 17 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 21.6% (from 3.7 in 2002).

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