# Population in European countries: Netherlands

> Population in European countries in Netherlands was 18,044,027 people (2025).

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Latest value | 18,044,027 people |
| Period | 2025 (2025) |
| Change vs a year earlier | +0.6 % |
| Frequency | year |

## Definition

Number of people living in the country on 1 January.

1 January of the year, so it differs from Sweden's end-of-December figure by a day.

## Recent periods

| Period | people |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 18,044,027 |
| 2024 | 17,942,942 |
| 2023 | 17,811,291 |
| 2022 | 17,590,672 |
| 2021 | 17,475,415 |
| 2020 | 17,407,585 |
| 2019 | 17,282,163 |
| 2018 | 17,181,084 |
| 2017 | 17,081,507 |
| 2016 | 16,979,120 |
| 2015 | 16,900,726 |
| 2014 | 16,829,289 |

## Checks

Status: verified, 2026-11-01
- ok: range: latest 2025 = 10587710, allowed 5000000..460000000
- ok: fresh: latest 2025 ends 305 days ago, max 450

## Source and use

Data: Eurostat, dataset demo_pjan, processed by SwedenMetrics.

Data licence: CC BY 4.0. Feel free to cite with a link to the page.

Page: https://swedenmetrics.com/eu-population/netherlands-NL
Svenska: https://swedenmetrics.com/sv/eu-population/netherlands-NL