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Foreign-born population share in Netherlands

Foreign-born population share in the Netherlands was 16.8% in 2025, according to Eurostat. That is up 0.5 pts from 2024. That is the 11th highest of 26 EU countries in 2025.

Rankings

• EU countries by foreign-born share of the population 27 places
• US states by foreign-born share of the population 51 places

Definition

People born outside the country where they live, as a percentage of the total population. United States: people who were not US citizens at birth, including naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, temporary migrants and unauthorized immigrants; American Community Survey five-year estimate, where the period shown is the last year of the five-year span. EU countries: residents on 1 January whose country of birth is not the reporting country (Eurostat).

Based on place of birth, not nationality: a naturalized citizen counts as foreign born. In the United States people born in Puerto Rico, the US island areas or abroad to American parents count as native; in the EU everyone born outside the reporting country counts as foreign born, including people born in another EU country or abroad to national parents. Not comparable with foreign_population_share, which counts foreign nationals in Spain and the EU.

How it is calculated

Foreign-born population divided by total population for the same place and year, times 100. United States: Census Bureau American Community Survey table B05002 (foreign born over total population). EU countries: Invokely calculation FOR / TOTAL * 100 from Eurostat migr_pop4ctb (country of birth, all ages, both sexes, 1 January); the total includes residents whose country of birth is unknown.

Inputs

• Foreign-born population (2025): 3,025,656, Eurostat
• Total population in country of birth statistics (2025): 18,044,027, Eurostat

How to cite

Invokely calculation from Foreign-born population share (Eurostat migr_pop4ctb). https://invokely.ai/docs/methodology#foreign_born_share. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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Foreign-born population share elsewhere in European Union (27)

• Estonia
• Belgium
• Ireland
• Bulgaria
• Sweden
• Slovakia

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