Population — national citizens

In 2008, Netherlands's population increased by 0.3% compared to 2007, reaching 15,717,024.

Netherlands ranks 6th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.4% (from 15,492,618 in 2003).

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