Population change - Demographic balance and crude rates at national level

In 2008, Netherlands's population change increased by 3.4% compared to 2007, reaching 3.0.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 0.8.

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 16.7% (from 3.6 in 2003).

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