Population  17.772 million (2024).
Life expectancy: male 78 / female 83 (2012)

Ethnic groups - Ethnic Dutch 75.4%, other EU 6.4%, others 14.1% variously from Dutch colonial past and recent immigration.

Language – Dutch. Frisian in Fryslan

Religion - The Netherlands is one of the more secular countries in western Europe – only 39% are religiously affiliated.
*  Roman Catholic 20.1%.
*  Protestant (Dutch Reformed Church, Reformed Church of the Netherlands and Lutheran Church) 14.8%.
*  6% other protestant churches plus Buddhists, Hindus and Muslim.
*  Jewish about 45,000.