Number of immigrants — all countries

Number of immigrants — Netherlands

Number of immigrants in the Netherlands in 2024 — 2,956,518 people. Ranked 24 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has risen by 147.6%.

2024 2.96M people +21.89% vs 2020
World rank 24of 215
Period maximum 2.96M people2024
Period minimum 1.19M people1990

Trend over time

1990–2024 · people

Number of immigrants — Netherlands, 1990–20241M1.5M2M2.5M3M19901994199820022006201020142018202220241990: 1,194,306 people1995: 1,397,371 people2000: 1,584,638 people2005: 1,735,632 people2010: 1,850,649 people2015: 2,024,059 people2020: 2,425,521 people2024: 2,956,518 people
Change over the period: +1.76M (+147.55%) Average annual rate: 2.7 %

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Netherlands

Netherlands 2.96M people
World 303M people
Europe & Central Asia 106M people
Western Europe computed 36.72M people
High-income countries computed 205M people
Number of immigrants — Netherlands, by year Netherlands All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2024 2.96M
2020 2.43M
2015 2.02M
2010 1.85M
2005 1.74M
2000 1.58M
1995 1.4M
1990 1.19M

Western Europe, 2024

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The number of people living in a country but born outside it — the international migrant stock. These are estimates of the UN Population Division, built from census and population register data. It is a stock, not a flow: the indicator answers the question of how many newcomers live in the country now, not how many arrived during the year. For the flow there is a separate indicator, net migration.

Important: The series is updated once every five years, so values may repeat in the intervening years. Foreign-born people and foreign citizens are not the same thing: in many countries most of the former have long held local citizenship.

Source: World Population Prospects (UN), license CC BY 3.0 IGO.