Population change - Demographic balance and crude rates at national level

In 2010, Netherlands's population change decreased by 6.5% compared to 2009, 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 9.4% (from 3.2 in 2005).

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