Population — national citizens

In 2004, Netherlands's population increased by 0.4% compared to 2003, reaching 15,555,847.

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 3.0% (from 15,097,853 in 1999).

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