Population dynamics; birth, death and migration per region
| Sex | Regions | Periods | Departures from municipality Total departures including administra... (number) | Departures from municipality Total departures including adm..., ratio (per 1,000) | Departures from municipality Due to emigration including administr... (number) | Departures from municipality Net administrative corrections (number) | Departures from municipality Due to intermunicipal moves (number) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total male and female | The Netherlands | 2023 | 1,016,785 | 56.9 | 198,302 | -32,318 | 818,483 |
| Total male and female | Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2023 | 106,890 | 60.6 | 14,537 | -2,709 | 92,353 |
| Total male and female | Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2023 | 185,924 | 49.2 | 31,901 | -7,236 | 154,023 |
| Total male and female | West-Nederland (LD) | 2023 | 519,372 | 60.6 | 110,025 | -15,442 | 409,347 |
| Total male and female | Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2023 | 204,599 | 54.3 | 41,839 | -6,931 | 162,760 |
| Total male and female | Groningen (PV) | 2023 | 52,446 | 87.6 | 7,464 | -1,012 | 44,982 |
| Total male and female | Fryslân (PV) | 2023 | 30,982 | 46.9 | 4,288 | -979 | 26,694 |
| Total male and female | Drenthe (PV) | 2023 | 23,462 | 46.6 | 2,785 | -718 | 20,677 |
| Total male and female | Overijssel (PV) | 2023 | 50,910 | 42.9 | 8,711 | -1,935 | 42,199 |
| Total male and female | Flevoland (PV) | 2023 | 24,838 | 55.5 | 6,456 | -1,198 | 18,382 |
| Total male and female | Gelderland (PV) | 2023 | 110,176 | 51.5 | 16,734 | -4,103 | 93,442 |
| Total male and female | Utrecht (PV) | 2023 | 81,825 | 58.7 | 11,255 | -1,433 | 70,570 |
| Total male and female | Noord-Holland (PV) | 2023 | 197,779 | 66.7 | 47,330 | -5,104 | 150,449 |
| Total male and female | Zuid-Holland (PV) | 2023 | 221,139 | 57.8 | 47,726 | -8,209 | 173,413 |
| Total male and female | Zeeland (PV) | 2023 | 18,629 | 47.6 | 3,714 | -696 | 14,915 |
| Total male and female | Noord-Brabant (PV) | 2023 | 144,833 | 55.0 | 26,592 | -4,737 | 118,241 |
| Total male and female | Limburg (PV) | 2023 | 59,766 | 52.9 | 15,247 | -2,194 | 44,519 |
| Total male and female | Oost-Groningen (CR) | 2023 | 22,861 | 165.9 | 768 | -205 | 22,093 |
| Total male and female | Delfzijl en omgeving (CR) | 2023 | 2,323 | 51.3 | 213 | -33 | 2,110 |
| Total male and female | Overig Groningen (CR) | 2023 | 27,262 | 65.6 | 6,483 | -774 | 20,779 |
| Total male and female | Noord-Friesland (CR) | 2023 | 16,748 | 51.1 | 2,875 | -750 | 13,873 |
| Total male and female | Zuidwest-Friesland (CR) | 2023 | 5,996 | 42.0 | 640 | -81 | 5,356 |
| Total male and female | Zuidoost-Friesland (CR) | 2023 | 8,238 | 43.3 | 773 | -148 | 7,465 |
| Total male and female | Noord-Drenthe (CR) | 2023 | 10,261 | 52.4 | 1,002 | -296 | 9,259 |
| Total male and female | Zuidoost-Drenthe (CR) | 2023 | 6,797 | 39.8 | 997 | -199 | 5,800 |
| Total male and female | Zuidwest-Drenthe (CR) | 2023 | 6,404 | 46.9 | 786 | -223 | 5,618 |
| Total male and female | Noord-Overijssel (CR) | 2023 | 16,485 | 42.6 | 2,195 | -405 | 14,290 |
| Total male and female | Zuidwest-Overijssel (CR) | 2023 | 6,931 | 43.2 | 1,156 | -331 | 5,775 |
| Total male and female | Twente (CR) | 2023 | 27,494 | 43.0 | 5,360 | -1,199 | 22,134 |
| Total male and female | Veluwe (CR) | 2023 | 32,959 | 45.8 | 5,423 | -1,077 | 27,536 |
| Total male and female | Achterhoek (CR) | 2023 | 16,999 | 41.8 | 1,840 | -303 | 15,159 |
| Total male and female | Arnhem/Nijmegen (CR) | 2023 | 46,773 | 61.5 | 6,255 | -1,383 | 40,518 |
| Total male and female | Zuidwest-Gelderland (CR) | 2023 | 13,445 | 52.7 | 3,216 | -1,340 | 10,229 |
| Total male and female | Utrecht (CR) | 2023 | 81,825 | 58.7 | 11,255 | -1,433 | 70,570 |
| Total male and female | Kop van Noord-Holland (CR) | 2023 | 18,043 | 46.7 | 3,539 | -753 | 14,504 |
| Total male and female | Alkmaar en omgeving (CR) | 2023 | 12,334 | 48.2 | 1,715 | -420 | 10,619 |
| Total male and female | IJmond (CR) | 2023 | 9,478 | 47.1 | 1,222 | -223 | 8,256 |
| Total male and female | Agglomeratie Haarlem (CR) | 2023 | 15,449 | 65.6 | 2,561 | -329 | 12,888 |
| Total male and female | Zaanstreek (CR) | 2023 | 8,814 | 49.8 | 1,724 | -381 | 7,090 |
| Total male and female | Groot-Amsterdam (CR) | 2023 | 118,077 | 80.6 | 34,430 | -2,759 | 83,647 |
| Total male and female | Het Gooi en Vechtstreek (CR) | 2023 | 15,584 | 63.8 | 2,139 | -239 | 13,445 |
| Total male and female | Agglomeratie Leiden en Bollenstreek (CR) | 2023 | 27,164 | 61.3 | 4,707 | -557 | 22,457 |
| Total male and female | Agglomeratie 's-Gravenhage (CR) | 2023 | 61,347 | 67.1 | 16,623 | -2,601 | 44,724 |
| Total male and female | Delft en Westland (CR) | 2023 | 17,642 | 72.7 | 5,364 | -1,113 | 12,278 |
| Total male and female | Oost-Zuid-Holland (CR) | 2023 | 15,174 | 43.7 | 2,356 | -648 | 12,818 |
| Total male and female | Groot-Rijnmond (CR) | 2023 | 81,663 | 54.6 | 16,153 | -2,561 | 65,510 |
| Total male and female | Zuidoost-Zuid-Holland (CR) | 2023 | 18,149 | 47.7 | 2,523 | -729 | 15,626 |
| Total male and female | Zeeuwsch-Vlaanderen (CR) | 2023 | 4,147 | 39.2 | 1,243 | -204 | 2,904 |
| Total male and female | Overig Zeeland (CR) | 2023 | 14,482 | 50.7 | 2,471 | -492 | 12,011 |
| Total male and female | West-Noord-Brabant (CR) | 2023 | 30,116 | 46.4 | 6,688 | -1,065 | 23,428 |
| Total male and female | Midden-Noord-Brabant (CR) | 2023 | 32,247 | 63.8 | 6,020 | -1,086 | 26,227 |
| Total male and female | Noordoost-Noord-Brabant (CR) | 2023 | 29,354 | 43.5 | 4,605 | -1,118 | 24,749 |
| Total male and female | Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant (CR) | 2023 | 53,116 | 65.9 | 9,279 | -1,468 | 43,837 |
| Total male and female | Noord-Limburg (CR) | 2023 | 12,665 | 43.7 | 3,694 | -752 | 8,971 |
| Total male and female | Midden-Limburg (CR) | 2023 | 11,425 | 47.2 | 2,465 | -762 | 8,960 |
| Total male and female | Zuid-Limburg (CR) | 2023 | 35,676 | 59.6 | 9,088 | -680 | 26,588 |
| Total male and female | Flevoland (CR) | 2023 | 24,838 | 55.5 | 6,456 | -1,198 | 18,382 |
| Total male and female | Aa en Hunze | 2023 | 1,310 | 50.8 | 127 | -25 | 1,183 |
| Total male and female | Aagtekerke | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Aalburg | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Aalsmeer | 2023 | 2,272 | 68.5 | 928 | -76 | 1,344 |
| Total male and female | Aalten | 2023 | 822 | 30.1 | 140 | -49 | 682 |
| Total male and female | Ter Aar | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Aardenburg | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Aarle-Rixtel | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Abbekerk | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Abbenbroek | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Abcoude | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Achtkarspelen | 2023 | 1,086 | 38.5 | 145 | -57 | 941 |
| Total male and female | Achttienhoven (U.) | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Adorp | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Aduard | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Akersloot | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Alblasserdam | 2023 | 1,027 | 50.5 | 137 | -61 | 890 |
| Total male and female | Albrandswaard | 2023 | 1,355 | 51.3 | 98 | -9 | 1,257 |
| Total male and female | Alem, Maren en Kessel | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Alkemade | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Alkmaar | 2023 | 5,394 | 48.1 | 730 | -136 | 4,664 |
| Total male and female | Almelo | 2023 | 3,239 | 43.7 | 599 | -195 | 2,640 |
| Total male and female | Almere | 2023 | 11,309 | 50.3 | 2,407 | -454 | 8,902 |
| Total male and female | Almkerk | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Alphen aan den Rijn | 2023 | 4,734 | 41.3 | 871 | -266 | 3,863 |
| Total male and female | Alphen en Riel | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Alphen-Chaam | 2023 | 567 | 54.2 | 107 | -4 | 460 |
| Total male and female | Altena | 2023 | 1,963 | 33.8 | 372 | -97 | 1,591 |
| Total male and female | Ambt Delden | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Ambt Montfort | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Ambt-Vollenhove | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Amby | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Ameide | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Ameland | 2023 | 261 | 68.0 | 58 | -10 | 203 |
| Total male and female | Amerongen | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Amersfoort | 2023 | 8,125 | 50.4 | 861 | -138 | 7,264 |
| Total male and female | Ammerstol | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Ammerzoden | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Amstelveen | 2023 | 11,243 | 118.7 | 3,155 | -229 | 8,088 |
| Total male and female | Amstenrade | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Amsterdam | 2023 | 79,281 | 85.7 | 26,019 | -1,611 | 53,262 |
| Total male and female | Andel | 2023 | |||||
| Total male and female | Andijk | 2023 | |||||
| Source: CBS. | |||||||
Table explanation
Population growth in The Netherlands by birth, death and migration by sex and region.
In addition to national data, information is presented by group of provinces, province, COROP region and municipality.
The regional totals shown concern cumulated municipal data. Where changes of municipal boundaries transect regional boundaries, the municipal classifications concerns the most recent situation. The municipality of Vianen, for example, was annexed by the province of Utrecht on 1 January 2002, and is classified under the province of Utrecht in the Table.
Data available from: 1942
Status of the figures:
All data recorded in this publication are final data.
Up to 1977 data may differ from other published data on StatLine. This is due to differences between the data files used by Statistics Netherlands and the official data as published in 'Loop van de bevolking per gemeente'.
Changes as of 25 June 2024:
Final figures of 2023 have been added.
When will new figures be published?
In the 3rd quarter of 2025 figures of 2024 will be added in this table.
Description topics
- Departures from municipality
- Departures from the municipality due to emigration or intermunicipal move.
Emigration:
People leaving for another country.
Intermunicipal move:
A move from one municipality to another, excluding changes caused by an adjustment of municipal borders.- Total departures including administra...
- Total departures including net administrative corrections.
Data on departures including net administrative corrections give a better impression of the true level of departures than data excluding net administrative corrections.
Break in series administrative corrections
Until 1977, Statistics Netherlands had no information on administrative corrections available at the municipal level. The figures up to 1977 do not include administrative corrections.
Administrative correction:
Entry in and removal from the municipal population register for reasons other than birth, death, arrival, departure or municipal boundary change. The majority of administrative corrections refer to persons who are no longer living in their former place of residence, usually because they have settled in a foreign country. Administrative corrections resulting in registration usually concern persons who have been found (in their former place of residence or elsewhere) and are entered into the municipal population registers. This explains why the net administrative corrections are included in emigration (and net migration) but not in immigration.
Net administrative corrections:
Administrative entries minus administrative removals.
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.
- Total departures including adm..., ratio
- Total departures including net administrative corrections per 1,000 of the average population.
Data on departures including net administrative corrections give a better impression of the true level of departures than data excluding net administrative corrections.
Not available by sex.
Break in series administrative corrections
Until 1977, Statistics Netherlands had no information on administrative corrections available at the municipal level. The figures up to 1977 do not include administrative corrections.
Administrative correction:
Entry in and removal from the municipal population register for reasons other than birth, death, arrival, departure or municipal boundary change. The majority of administrative corrections refer to persons who are no longer living in their former place of residence, usually because they have settled in a foreign country. Administrative corrections resulting in registration usually concern persons who have been found (in their former place of residence or elsewhere) and are entered into the municipal population registers. This explains why the net administrative corrections are included in emigration (and net migration) but not in immigration.
Net administrative corrections:
Administrative entries minus administrative removals.
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.
Population:
The total number of people residing in a given area. In the population statistics compiled by Statistics Netherlands the inhabitants are the people registered in the population register of a Dutch municipality.
- Due to emigration including administr...
- Emigration including net administrative corrections.
Data on emigration including net administrative corrections give a better impression of the true level of emigration than data excluding net administrative corrections.
Break in series administrative corrections
Until 1977, Statistics Netherlands had no information on administrative corrections available at the municipal level. The figures up to 1977 do not include administrative corrections.
Break in series external migration
As a result of an improved production process, a small shift has occurred in the figures on external migration.
From 2010 the following changes have been implemented.
- administrative entries preceding emigration are now considered as immigration;
- administrative removals followed by immigration are now considered as emigration
Emigration:
People leaving for another country.
Until October 1994, persons who had the intention to leave the Netherlands for a period exceeding 360 days were deregistered. From October 1994, the anticipated length of stay abroad in the year after settlement in another country is at least eight months.
Administrative correction:
Entry in and removal from the municipal population register for reasons other than birth, death, arrival, departure or municipal boundary change. The majority of administrative corrections refer to persons who are no longer living in their former place of residence, usually because they have settled in a foreign country. Administrative corrections resulting in registration usually concern persons who have been found (in their former place of residence or elsewhere) and are entered into the municipal population registers. This explains why the net administrative corrections are included in emigration (and net migration) but not in immigration.
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Net administrative corrections:
Administrative entries minus administrative removals.
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 administrative corrections
- Break in series administrative corrections
Until 1977, Statistics Netherlands had no information on administrative corrections available at the municipal level. The figures up to 1977 do not include administrative corrections.
Administrative correction:
Entry in and removal from the municipal population register for reasons other than birth, death, arrival, departure or municipal boundary change. The majority of administrative corrections refer to persons who are no longer living in their former place of residence, usually because they have settled in a foreign country. Administrative corrections resulting in registration usually concern persons who have been found (in their former place of residence or elsewhere) and are entered into the municipal population registers. This explains why the net administrative corrections are included in emigration (and net migration) but not in immigration.
Net administrative corrections:
Administrative entries minus administrative removals.
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.
- Due to intermunicipal moves
- Intermunicipal move:
A move from one municipality to another, excluding changes caused by an adjustment of municipal borders.
Available in this table from 1960.