Population — national citizens

In 2006, Netherlands's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2005, reaching 15,642,853.

Netherlands ranks 5th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.1% (from 15,319,273 in 2001).

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