Population — national citizens

In 2003, Netherlands's population increased by 0.5% compared to 2002, reaching 15,492,618.

Netherlands ranks 5th out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 3.4% (from 14,976,110 in 1998).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.