Population — national citizens

In 2021, Netherlands's population increased by 0.4% compared to 2020, reaching 16,272,450.

Netherlands accounts for 4.0% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

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 16,078,619 in 2016).

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