Population and population dynamics by month; 1995-2018
| Periods | Population stock and flow Live births (number) | Population stock and flow Deaths (number) | Population stock and flow Immigration (number) | Population stock and flow Emigration including administrative c... (number) | Population stock and flow Emigration excluding administrative c... (number) | Population stock and flow Net corrections (number) | Population stock and flow Total population growth (number) | Population stock and flow Inhabitants at end of selected period (number) | Population stock and flow Persons who moved between municipalities (number) | Population stock and flow Persons who moved within the same mun... (number) | Mortality Deaths by sex and age (31-12) Males and females Total males and females (number) | Mortality Deaths by sex and age (31-12) Males and females 0 to 20 years (number) | Mortality Deaths by sex and age (31-12) Males and females 20 to 40 years (number) | Mortality Deaths by sex and age (31-12) Males and females 40 to 60 years (number) | Mortality Deaths by sex and age (31-12) Males and females 60 to 80 years (number) | Mortality Deaths by sex and age (31-12) Males and females 80 to 90 years (number) | Mortality Deaths by sex and age (31-12) Males and females 90 years or older (number) |
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| 2017 November | 13,998 | 12,247 | 17,489 | 11,453 | 8,925 | -2,528 | 7,787 | 17,180,690 | 62,131 | 87,388 | 12,247 | 79 | 129 | 977 | 4,337 | 4,249 | 2,476 |
| 2017 December | 13,713 | 13,740 | 13,744 | 12,613 | 10,662 | -2,661 | 394 | 17,181,084 | 62,946 | 92,797 | 13,740 | 87 | 165 | 1,031 | 4,821 | 4,780 | 2,856 |
| 2018 January* | 14,077 | 14,858 | 18,054 | 13,061 | 11,284 | -1,777 | 4,212 | 17,185,296 | 65,390 | 87,932 | 14,858 | 72 | 140 | 949 | 4,867 | 5,091 | 3,739 |
| 2018 February* | 12,226 | 14,454 | 19,694 | 10,714 | 9,246 | -1,468 | 6,752 | 17,192,048 | 59,738 | 83,359 | 14,454 | 70 | 119 | 914 | 4,750 | 4,959 | 3,642 |
| 2018 March* | 13,355 | 16,315 | 15,672 | 11,084 | 9,569 | -1,515 | 1,628 | 17,193,676 | 63,680 | 92,553 | 16,315 | 100 | 139 | 978 | 5,273 | 5,747 | 4,078 |
| 2018 April* | 13,367 | 12,152 | 14,804 | 10,184 | 8,640 | -1,544 | 5,835 | 17,199,511 | 55,339 | 81,139 | 12,152 | 83 | 131 | 913 | 4,298 | 4,135 | 2,592 |
| 2018 May* | 14,571 | 11,801 | 16,331 | 10,844 | 8,350 | -2,494 | 8,257 | 17,207,768 | 56,887 | 84,237 | 11,801 | 73 | 154 | 873 | 4,120 | 4,013 | 2,568 |
| 2018 June* | 14,157 | 11,228 | 16,005 | 13,516 | 11,987 | -1,529 | 5,418 | 17,213,186 | 57,982 | 84,766 | 11,228 | 68 | 151 | 808 | 4,039 | 3,854 | 2,308 |
| 2018 July* | 15,237 | 11,987 | 19,891 | 17,999 | 16,392 | -1,607 | 5,142 | 17,218,328 | 68,990 | 90,312 | 11,987 | 95 | 155 | 904 | 4,240 | 4,051 | 2,542 |
| 2018 August* | 15,090 | 11,746 | 33,479 | 16,158 | 14,803 | -1,355 | 20,665 | 17,238,993 | 77,316 | 88,743 | 11,746 | 72 | 140 | 914 | 4,293 | 3,994 | 2,333 |
| 2018 September* | 14,889 | 11,246 | 31,933 | 12,947 | 11,443 | -1,504 | 22,629 | 17,261,622 | 66,675 | 80,942 | 11,246 | 101 | 141 | 891 | 4,157 | 3,815 | 2,141 |
| 2018 October* | 14,378 | 12,186 | 23,151 | 13,219 | 10,725 | -2,494 | 12,124 | 17,273,746 | 65,947 | 89,408 | 12,186 | 74 | 157 | 944 | 4,464 | 4,214 | 2,333 |
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This table includes information on the size of the Dutch population, as well as births, deaths, international migration, persons who moved within or between municipalities, marriages, registered partnerships, marriage dissolutions and requests for asylum, per month, quarter and year.
Since January 2010, a new production system has become operational to process municipal population data.
As from 2010 onwards, with the introduction of the new system the following changes were implemented:
- Provisional figures on live births by rank number and marital status of the mother will no longer be available. Definite figures will be added to the table on an annual basis;
- Marriages will include registered partnerships;
- Data on registered partnerships will be discontinued;
- Married persons will include persons who have signed partnership contracts. An extra preceding marital status (married) has been added;
- Marriage dissolutions will be presented including registered partnership dissolutions;
- Divorced persons will be presented including legally terminated partnerships;
- Data on persons who have moved house within the Netherlands will no longer be broken down by place in the household.
Data available from January 1995 till Ocotber 2018.
Status of the figures:
- All figures on Asylum requests are final.
- All figures of 1995 up to and including 2017 are final.
- Figures for the 1st of January 2018 are final, the other figures on the population of 2018 are provisional.
- The updating of asylum applications in this table is discontinued with effect from 2012.
Changes effective from 14 January 2019:
None, the table has been discontinued.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable. This table will be followed up by 'Population dynamics; month and year' see paragraph 3.
Description topics
- Population stock and flow
- Population stock:
Size and composition of the population and its components at a given time.
Break in series: late reports
Until 2010, reports on events taking place in a certain year received by Statistics Netherlands after 15 February in the following year were disregarded. These are so-called late reports.
As a result of an improvement in the production process, from 2010 these late reports are included in the year of publication (i.e. not in the year the event took place, but in the year the results are published).
Population flow:
Changes in population numbers as a result of births, deaths, immigration, emigration, administrative and other corrections.
Population:
The population figures (numbers of inhabitants) shown in this publication relate to the resident ('de jure') population: persons who reside habitually in the Netherlands and who are recorded in the municipal population registers. In principle all those residing in the Netherlands for an indefinite period are entered into the population register of the municipality where they usually live.- Live births
- Live birth:
A baby showing some sign of life after birth, regardless of the duration of pregnancy.
- Deaths
- Death:
Person declared dead by an authorized doctor.
- Immigration
- Immigration:
People moving to the Netherlands from another country.
Immigration relates to all individuals arriving in the Netherlands whose arrival result in entries in a municipal population register.
The criteria are a residency for at least four months in the forthcoming six months.
- Emigration including administrative c...
- Emigration including administrative corrections.
Data on emigration including net administrative corrections give a better impression of the true level of emigration than data on emigration excluding net administrative corrections.
Emigration:
People leaving for another country.
Emigration relates to all individuals departing from the Netherlands, whose departure result in removals from the Netherlands population registers. The criteria for removal from the registers are 8 months abroad in the following 12 months.
Administrative correction:
Entries in and removals from the municipal population register for reasons other than birth, death, arrival, departure or municipal boundary change.
The greater part of these corrections relates to the processing of either the departures of persons who did not notify the local authorities or the subsequent arrivals.
Administrative entry:
Decision by a municipality, at the request of the person concerned, to include that person in its population while it has no knowledge of birth, immigration or establishment of that person from another municipality in the Netherlands.
Administrative removal:
Decision by a municipality no longer to include a person in its population, once it has established that the address of the person is unknown, the person cannot be contacted and probably no longer resides in a municipality in the Netherlands.
- Emigration excluding administrative c...
- Emigration excluding administrative corrections.
Data on emigration including net administrative corrections give a better impression of the true level of emigration than data on emigration excluding net administrative corrections.
Emigration:
People leaving for another country.
Emigration relates to all individuals departing from the Netherlands, whose departure result in removals from the Netherlands population registers. The criteria for removal from the registers are 8 months abroad in the following 12 months.
Administrative correction:
Entries in and removals from the municipal population register for reasons other than birth, death, arrival, departure or municipal boundary change.
The greater part of these corrections relates to the processing of either the departures of persons who did not notify the local authorities or the subsequent arrivals.
Administrative entry:
Decision by a municipality, at the request of the person concerned, to include that person in its population while it has no knowledge of birth, immigration or establishment of that person from another municipality in the Netherlands.
Administrative removal:
Decision by a municipality no longer to include a person in its population, once it has established that the address of the person is unknown, the person cannot be contacted and probably no longer resides in a municipality in the Netherlands.
- Net corrections
- Net administrative corrections and other corrections.
Other corrections are only included in the final figures, and only in the totals for December.
Net administrative corrections:
Administrative entries minus administrative removals.
Other correction:
Correction caused by differences between the numbers of inhabitants in two consecutive years (1 January) which cannot be explained by birth, death, migration and administrative corrections.
Administrative correction:
Entry in or removal from the municipal population register for reasons other than birth, death, arrival, departure or municipal boundary change.
Administrative entry:
All entries in and removals from the municipal population register for reasons other than birth, death, arrival, departure or municipal boundary change.
Administrative removal:
Decision by a municipality no longer to include a person in its population, once it has established that the address of the person is unknown, the person cannot be contacted and probably no longer resides in a municipality in the Netherlands.
- Total population growth
- Population growth:
The increase or decrease of the population.
- Inhabitants at end of selected period
- Persons who moved between municipalities
- Someone who moved between municipalities:
A person who moved from one municipality to another.
Excluding changes caused by municipal border changes.
- Persons who moved within the same mun...
- Persons who moved within the same municipality.
Someone who moved within a municipality:
A person who moved from one address in a municipality to another address in the same municipality.
- Mortality
- Break in series: late reports
Until 2010, reports on events taking place in a certain year received by Statistics Netherlands after 15 February in the following year were disregarded. These are so-called late reports.
As a result of an improvement in the production process, from 2010 these late reports are included in the year of publication (i.e. not in the year the event took place, but in the year the results are published).- Deaths by sex and age (31-12)
- Death by sex and age on 31 December.
Death:
Person declared dead by an authorized doctor.
Age:
The number of whole years that have passed between the date of birth of the deceased person and 31 December of the year of death, calculated as the year of death minus the year of birth.
As a consequence of determining age in this manner, interpreting age-specific monthly figures may sometimes be difficult. For a better understanding, the relationships between the various data should be studied in a longer time series (see the article The use of the age concept in monthly population figures, which was published in the March 1996 edition of the Monthly Bulletin of Population Statistics).- Males and females
- Total males and females
- 0 to 20 years
- 20 to 40 years
- 40 to 60 years
- 60 to 80 years
- 80 to 90 years
- 90 years or older