Population — national citizens

In 2016, Netherlands's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2015, reaching 16,078,619.

Netherlands accounts for 3.9% of the EU-27 total of 412,714,600.

Netherlands ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.2% (from 15,895,431 in 2011).

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