Population — national citizens

In 2025, Netherlands's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2024, reaching 16,428,041.

Netherlands accounts for 4.0% of the EU-27 total of 405,729,577.

Netherlands ranks 7th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.3% (from 16,215,276 in 2020).

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