Population — national citizens

In 2023, Netherlands's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2022, reaching 16,365,940.

Netherlands accounts for 4.0% of the EU-27 total of 407,021,139.

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 16,140,279 in 2018).

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