Population — national citizens

In 2024, Netherlands's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2023, reaching 16,398,845.

Netherlands accounts for 4.0% of the EU-27 total of 406,216,013.

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 16,171,304 in 2019).

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