Population and population dynamics by month; 1995-2018

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.