World population/Netherlands
Europe
Population of Netherlands
18,448,770
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#71
world rank
0.22%
of world population
+0.48%
yearly change
+89,242
people this year
176,063
births a year
171,309
deaths a year
How the figure for Netherlands is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Netherlands at 18,448,770 on 1 July 2026, and projects 18,538,012 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Netherlands at number 71 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.22 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 176,063 births and 171,309 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
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