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Population; key figures
Population: key figures by sex, marital status, age, country of origin, households and population growth
Population dynamics; month and year
Population dynamics Periods
Asylum requests and family reunification; nationality, sex and age
Asylum requests and family reunification nationality, sex and age
Most asylum requests from Eritreans for first time since 2016
A total of 5.3 thousand people submitted a first-time asylum application in the Netherlands in the second quarter of 2025.
Population growth in first half of 2025 similar to last year
The population of the Netherlands grew by 36.9 thousand in the first half of 2025.
Migrants who arrived in last 10 years are staying for longer
More than half of non-Dutch migrants leave within five years of arriving in the Netherlands.
Lower immigration in 2024, particularly among knowledge migrants
A total of 316 thousand migrants from other countries arrived in the Netherlands in 2024.
Caribbean Netherlands; population, births, deaths, migration
Population growth Caribbean Netherlands, population, births, deaths, migration
Population growth in Q1 was around the same as last year
The population of the Netherlands grew by nearly 21 thousand people in the first quarter of 2025 to reach 18.07 million
Number of asylum requests halved in Q1 2025
In the first quarter of 2025, nearly 4.5 thousand people submitted a first-time asylum application in the Netherlands.
Public awareness campaign This is us!
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has launched a campaign to improve public awareness about data. CBS is responsible for collecting data and compiling statistics for the Caribbean Netherlands. It produces...
Fewer asylum requests and more following family members in 2024
Over 32 thousand people submitted a first-time application for asylum in the Netherlands in 2024
Forecast: population of the Netherlands will reach 19 million in 2037
The population of the Netherlands will continue to increase in the years to come, but less rapidly than in recent years.
Most immigrants to the Caribbean Netherlands leave within seven years
Between 2011 and 2016, 8.7 thousand people who were not born in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands came to live in the Caribbean Netherlands.
Report on Integration and Society, 2024
CBS-report on the integration of different origin groups in the Dutch society on various themes: population, housing, education, labour market, social security, income, crime, health, social...
Most family migrants stay in the Netherlands
Migrants coming to the Netherlands to join other family members made up nearly one-third of all non-EU/EFTA immigrants arriving in the Netherlands between 1999 and 2023
Population growth in first three quarters lower than in 2023
The population of the Netherlands grew by 85.3 thousand in the first three quarters of 2024.
Population growth slows in first half of 2024
The population of the Netherlands grew by 39.0 thousand in the first half of 2024.
Forecast: nearly 18 million inhabitants, 19 million projected in 2037
The Dutch population will continue to increase in the coming years, but less rapidly than in recent years.
Key figures of the population forecasts 2023-2070
Forecast; population, births, deaths and migration with forecast intervals
Population up to 17.9 million
In the first three quarters of 2023, the population of the Netherlands grew by 110.7 thousand to 17.9 million.
55 thousand more inhabitants in first half of 2023
The population of the Netherlands grew by 54.8 thousand in the first half of 2023. In the first half of 2022, the increase still amounted to 119.2 thousand
External migration; sex, age, marital status and country of birth
Immigration and emigration and the administrative corrections in the Netherlands by country of birth, sex, age and marital status,
Population up by 27.4 thousand in the first quarter
In the first quarter of 2023, the population of the Netherlands grew by 27.4 thousand. The increase was entirely due to immigration; there were more deaths than births.