Population — national citizens

In 2022, Netherlands's population increased by 0.4% compared to 2021, reaching 16,334,426.

Netherlands accounts for 4.0% of the EU-27 total of 408,287,841.

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 1.4% (from 16,109,209 in 2017).

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