Holland Compared

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population growth
Population by age (2014)
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1. 1. 0-19 22.9% 2. 2. 20-39 24.5% 3. 40-64 23.3% 4. 65-79 13.1% 5. Older than 79 4.3%
Source: Statistics Netherlands, 2014.
In total 16.9 million people live on the relatively small piece of land that
is the Netherlands, which makes the country one of the most densely
populated in the world. However, population growth is slowing down in
the Netherlands, as it is in many other Western countries. This slowdown,
together with an increasingly healthy generation aged 65 and above,
has resulted in an ageing population.
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