Netherlands Population
The total number of people living in the economy at mid-year, from the World Bank's estimates (everyone counted, whatever their legal status or citizenship).
18.1m
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1960 to 2025
Source: World Bank · Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), mid-year estimates, annual.
Netherlands Population in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the Netherlands, the population rose by 94.1k in 2025, from 18m in 2024.
That is the highest reading in a record that starts in 1960.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 17.4m in 2020 to 18.1m in 2025.
The Netherlands is 34th of 61 countries in our Population by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- World Bank
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- people
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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