Population — national citizens

In 2012, Netherlands's population increased by 0.3% compared to 2011, reaching 15,944,291.

Netherlands ranks 7th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.7% (from 15,676,060 in 2007).

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