Population change - Demographic balance and crude rates at national level

In 2009, Netherlands's population change increased by 3.3% compared to 2008, reaching 3.1.

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

Netherlands ranks 5th out of 16 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 11.4% (from 3.5 in 2004).

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