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Netherlands

18,087,633

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+94.15K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+13.6%from 15.93M
Life expectancy82.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.43births per woman · 2024
Urban population95.9%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Netherlands is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.2%Working-age population
Ages 65+20.9%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate9.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-0.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+104.68Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Netherlands look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 18.96M in 2050—4.0% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202418.23M
  2. 205018.96M
  3. 210017.51M
Median age in 205045.5years
Births in 2050164.02Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050222.9Kduring the year
Life expectancy85.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196011.49M
  2. 197013.04M
  3. 198014.15M
  4. 199014.95M
  5. 200015.93M
  6. 201016.62M
  7. 202017.44M
  8. 202518.09M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/20/2026

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