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Population in the Netherlands compared to Russia: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of the Netherlands was 17,994,237 in 2024 vs 143,533,851 people in Russia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Netherlands' population is 18,191,638 people compared to 142,718,132 in Russia.

Population statistics:

  • Russia's population is 7.85 times bigger than the Netherlands'.
  • The Netherlands is ranked the 72nd most populous country in the world, while Russia is the 9th.
  • The countries together account for 1.95% of the world: 0.22% for the Netherlands vs 1.73% for Russia.
  • For the last 10 years, the Netherlands has had an average growth rate of +0.62% per year vs -0.02% in Russia.
  • Since 2005, the population of the Netherlands has increased from 16.3M people to 18.2M (11.5% growth), while Russia has declined from 144M to 143M (0.56% decline).
  • The Netherlands is projected to reach its peak in 2041 at 18.8M people, while Russia's population already peaked in 1992 at 149M people and is projected to decrease to 125M people by 2100.

Netherlands vs Russia: live population counter

Netherlands Russia
Current population
18191638
142718132
Population rank 72/197 9/197
Percent of world population 0.22% 1.73%
One net population change
4.49 minutes
1.8 minutes
One birth every
3.2 minutes
25.5 seconds
One death every
3.09 minutes
18.1 seconds
One migration net change every
4.32 minutes
2.95 minutes
Annual migration change +121,628 -178,042
Daily growth/decline +321 -801
Annual growth/decline +117,120 -292,279
Annual growth/decline rate +0.66% -0.2%
Population growth rate rank 122/197 177/197

the Netherlands and Russia: population history and growth rate by year chart

Netherlands
Population

Growth rate
Russia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Netherlands Russia Netherlands Russia
1960 11,486,631 119,897,000 - -
1961 11,638,712 121,236,000 1.32% 1.12%
1962 11,805,689 122,591,000 1.43% 1.12%
1963 11,965,966 123,960,000 1.36% 1.12%
1964 12,127,120 125,345,000 1.35% 1.12%
1965 12,294,732 126,745,000 1.38% 1.12%
1966 12,456,251 127,468,000 1.31% 0.57%
1967 12,598,201 128,196,000 1.14% 0.57%
1968 12,729,721 128,928,000 1.04% 0.57%
1969 12,877,984 129,664,000 1.16% 0.57%
1970 13,038,526 130,404,000 1.25% 0.57%
1971 13,194,497 131,155,000 1.2% 0.58%
1972 13,328,593 131,909,000 1.02% 0.57%
1973 13,439,322 132,669,000 0.83% 0.58%
1974 13,545,056 133,432,000 0.79% 0.58%
1975 13,666,335 134,200,000 0.9% 0.58%
1976 13,774,037 135,147,000 0.79% 0.71%
1977 13,856,185 136,100,000 0.6% 0.71%
1978 13,941,700 137,060,000 0.62% 0.71%
1979 14,038,270 138,027,000 0.69% 0.71%
1980 14,149,800 139,010,000 0.79% 0.71%
1981 14,247,208 139,941,000 0.69% 0.67%
1982 14,312,690 140,823,000 0.46% 0.63%
1983 14,367,070 141,668,000 0.38% 0.6%
1984 14,424,211 142,745,000 0.4% 0.76%
1985 14,491,632 143,858,000 0.47% 0.78%
1986 14,572,278 144,894,000 0.56% 0.72%
1987 14,665,037 145,908,000 0.64% 0.7%
1988 14,760,094 146,857,000 0.65% 0.65%
1989 14,848,907 147,721,000 0.6% 0.59%
1990 14,951,510 147,969,406 0.69% 0.17%
1991 15,069,798 148,394,216 0.79% 0.29%
1992 15,184,166 148,538,197 0.76% 0.1%
1993 15,290,368 148,458,777 0.7% -0.05%
1994 15,382,838 148,407,912 0.6% -0.03%
1995 15,459,006 148,375,787 0.5% -0.02%
1996 15,530,498 148,160,129 0.46% -0.15%
1997 15,610,650 147,915,361 0.52% -0.17%
1998 15,707,209 147,670,784 0.62% -0.17%
1999 15,812,088 147,214,776 0.67% -0.31%
2000 15,925,513 146,596,869 0.72% -0.42%
2001 16,046,180 145,976,482 0.76% -0.42%
2002 16,148,929 145,306,497 0.64% -0.46%
2003 16,225,302 144,648,618 0.47% -0.45%
2004 16,281,779 144,067,316 0.35% -0.4%
2005 16,319,868 143,518,814 0.23% -0.38%
2006 16,346,101 143,049,637 0.16% -0.33%
2007 16,381,696 142,805,114 0.22% -0.17%
2008 16,445,593 142,742,366 0.39% -0.04%
2009 16,530,388 142,785,348 0.52% 0.03%
2010 16,615,394 142,849,468 0.51% 0.04%
2011 16,693,074 143,018,195 0.47% 0.12%
2012 16,754,962 143,378,447 0.37% 0.25%
2013 16,804,432 143,805,638 0.3% 0.3%
2014 16,865,008 144,237,223 0.36% 0.3%
2015 16,939,923 144,640,716 0.44% 0.28%
2016 17,030,314 145,015,460 0.53% 0.26%
2017 17,131,296 145,293,260 0.59% 0.19%
2018 17,231,624 145,398,106 0.59% 0.07%
2019 17,344,874 145,453,291 0.66% 0.04%
2020 17,441,500 145,245,148 0.56% -0.14%
2021 17,533,044 144,746,762 0.52% -0.34%
2022 17,700,982 144,236,933 0.96% -0.35%
2023 17,877,117 143,826,130 1% -0.28%
2024 17,994,237 143,533,851 0.66% -0.2%
2025 18,110,800 142,718,132 0.65% -0.57%
2026 18,211,436 142,120,553 0.56% -0.42%
2027 18,299,531 141,773,330 0.48% -0.24%
2028 18,379,573 141,402,326 0.44% -0.26%
2029 18,452,044 141,021,009 0.39% -0.27%
2030 18,515,913 140,628,883 0.35% -0.28%
2031 18,571,934 140,218,596 0.3% -0.29%
2032 18,621,087 139,807,207 0.26% -0.29%
2033 18,664,975 139,414,947 0.24% -0.28%
2034 18,702,456 139,034,543 0.2% -0.27%
2035 18,733,223 138,666,694 0.16% -0.26%
2036 18,760,054 138,311,757 0.14% -0.26%
2037 18,781,793 137,968,177 0.12% -0.25%
2038 18,798,283 137,643,032 0.09% -0.24%
2039 18,810,276 137,336,299 0.06% -0.22%
2040 18,817,745 137,053,347 0.04% -0.21%
2041 18,820,870 136,795,588 0.02% -0.19%
2042 18,819,607 136,558,692 -0.007% -0.17%
2043 18,815,261 136,335,849 -0.02% -0.16%
2044 18,807,564 136,124,845 -0.04% -0.15%
2045 18,797,005 135,933,758 -0.06% -0.14%
2046 18,785,724 135,756,848 -0.06% -0.13%
2047 18,771,651 135,574,181 -0.07% -0.13%
2048 18,754,325 135,372,557 -0.09% -0.15%
2049 18,735,299 135,156,911 -0.1% -0.16%
2050 18,714,579 134,923,391 -0.11% -0.17%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of the Netherlands increased by 620,055 people (a 3.8% growth), while Russia gained 1,121,902 people (a 0.78% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, the Netherlands gained 1,251,715 (a 7.39% growth), while Russia's population decreased by -1,922,584 (a 1.33% decline).

The Netherlands was ranked 61st most populous country in 2005 and is 72nd in 2025. Russia was ranked 9th in 2005 and still ranked 9th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) the Netherlands' population will grow by 2.87% to 18,714,579 people with a rank change from 72nd to 77th. The population of Russia will decrease by 5.46% to 134,923,391 people and rank change from 9th to 13th.

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