Not surprisingly, the capital of the Netherlands is also its largest city. At around *******, Amsterdam has over ******* inhabitants more than the second-largest city in the country, Rotterdam. The Hague and Utrecht, the third and fourth-largest cities in the Netherlands, together have approximately as many inhabitants as Amsterdam alone. Amsterdam and the pressure on the housing market A rapidly growing city, Amsterdam’s population increased from roughly ***** thousand to around ***** thousand in the last decade. This has created pressure on the real estate market, where average rent and housing prices have skyrocketed. In the first quarter of 2010, the average rent of residential property amounted to roughly ***** euros per square meter. In the first quarter of 2021, this had increased to over ***** euros per square meter.  2030 Outlook  In the nearby future, Amsterdam is set to remain the Netherlands’ largest city. According to a recent forecast, by 2030 Amsterdam will have broken the barrier of one million inhabitants. Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht are forecast to grow too, albeit at a much lower pace. In 2030, Rotterdam is expected to reach just under ******* inhabitants.

According to this population forecast, in 2030 Amsterdam will remain the largest city in the Netherlands. It is forecast that the capital will have over *********** inhabitants in 2030. Rotterdam, currently the second-largest city in the country, will keep its spot. By 2030, the population of Rotterdam is expected to reach just under ******* people.

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Paris was Western Europe's largest city in 1650, with an estimated 400 thousand inhabitants, which is almost double it's population 150 years previously. In second place is London, with 350 thousand inhabitants, however it has grown by a substantially higher rate than Paris during this time, now seven times larger than it was in the year 1500. Naples remains in the top three largest cities, growing from 125 to 300 thousand inhabitants during this time. In the previous list, the Italian cities of Milan and Venice were the only other cities with more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, however in this list they have been joined by the trading centers of Lisbon and Amsterdam, the capital cities of the emerging Portuguese and Dutch maritime empires.

In 2023, Zuid-Holland was the most populated province in the Netherlands, with over 3.8 million inhabitants. That was over 800,000 inhabitants more than runner-up Noord-Holland, the province in which also the capital Amsterdam is located. That year, Amsterdam’s population alone made up 863,000 of Noord-Holland’s nearly three million inhabitants.

 Zuid-Holland   

Zuid-Holland’s largest city is Rotterdam, home to approximately 645,000 people. The third largest city in the Netherlands, Den Haag (or The Hague, as internationals would know it) is also located in Zuid-Holland. The city, which hosts the Dutch government as well as many international organizations, reached a population of roughly 538,000 in 2019.

Utrecht and Eindhoven  

 Completing the top five of the largest cities in the Netherlands are Utrecht and Eindhoven, located in the provinces Utrecht and Noord-Brabant. The city of Utrecht had nearly 353,000 inhabitants in 2019, or roughly one quarter of the entire population of the province bearing the same name. Eindhoven’s population reached nearly 232,000 that year, but as Noord-Brabant boasts two more of the largest cities in the country, Eindhoven plays a less central role in its own province as Utrecht does, despite being home to both Philips and one of the most successful football clubs in Dutch history, PSV Eindhoven.

With an area of 5,136 square kilometres, Gelderland is the largest province in the Netherlands. Gelderland lies in the middle and the east of the Netherlands. Its capital is Arnhem, while Nijmegen is its most populous city. Size-wise, the largest city is Apeldoorn. In total, 2,031,000 people live in Gelderland. Positive observations without protocol Dataset available via https://www.ndff.nl/english / serviceteamndff@natuurloket.nl 740,142 records (March 2018)

Rents for unfurnished housing in the Netherlands reached an all-time high in 2023. In the third quarter of the year, the average square meter rent for residential properties reached 17.77 euros, up from 16.9 euros during the same period in 2022. Note that the numbers shown in this statistic are not from a governmental institution, but concern rental housing being offered on the website of the source in the specific quarters. This implies the numbers only show rents of property on the free market and exclude social housing. No difference was made between the type of rental housing, such as houses, apartments, rooms or studios. Big cities well above the average rent price Cities in the Randstad area (the areas surrounding Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam) have a big influence on the average rental price in the Netherlands. This is especially true for Amsterdam, as the Dutch capital registered an average rent price of roughly 26 euros per square meter in 2023. The Hague and Rotterdam, on the other hand, had rental rates below the national average. Are these rents expensive or not? A historical development of rent price indices suggests that rents in the Netherlands are at their highest level since 1990. This graph, however, does not mention whether it has a correction for inflation or not. It is unclear whether any institution researched the development of “real” rent prices in the Netherlands. Statista can offer two components for a potential comparison: the annual housing rent percentage increase since 1990 as well as the inflation rate of the Netherland since 2008.

In 2019, the revenue per available room (RevPAR) of hotels in Amsterdam amounted to approximately *** euros, the highest RevPAR of all major cities in the Netherlands. Maastricht had a revenue per room of ***** euros, whereas hotels In Utrecht generated a RevPAR of roughly ** euros. Observing the revenue per available hotel room in the Netherlands, it amounted to nearly 100 euros of revenue per room. This figure represents an increase compared to the previous year, when the RevPAR amounted to ** euros (figure is provisional).

Average hotel price per night continue to grow in 2019 and 2020

The average price hotel guests had to pay in a three, four- or five-star hotel reached *** euros per night in the Netherlands in 2018. This is an increase of ***** euros compared to the previous year, and it is forecasted that this will grow in the future. In 2019 and 2020, according to the forecast, the average hotel price per night will reach to *** and *** euros, respectively.

Hotel prices in Amsterdam increased annually

In Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands, the hotel prices are the highest compared to other major cities in the Netherlands. In the city known for their canals and historic buildings, it was forecasted that hotel guests had to pay on average approximately *** euros a night. Compared to the hotel prices in The Hague for example, it is a difference of roughly ** euros per night.

Amsterdam is the largest city in the Netherlands, with a population amounting to over 918,100 inhabitants. In the last ten years, Amsterdam’s population increased rapidly, and the end is not yet in sight. By 2030, the number of inhabitants is forecast to reach over one million.

 Amsterdam and tourism  

Amsterdam is not just a popular place to settle down, it is also one of Europe’s leading city trip destinations. In 2020, tourists spent nearly 5.8 million nights in the city. Europe’s most popular capitals, London and Paris, registered roughly 20.77 and 14.13 million nights, respectively. In 2019, Amsterdam ranked 10th on the list of leading European city tourism destinations, just below Vienna and Prague.
   Tourism boom  

Tourism in Amsterdam is booming. In the last ten years, the number of tourists visiting the capital has doubled. In 2018, the city registered nearly 8.6 million hotel guests. The largest group of guests visiting Amsterdam were tourists from the U.K. (three million hotel nights), followed by domestic tourists and tourists from the US (2.9 and two million hotel nights, respectively).

In the last decade, the population of the city of Utrecht increased by roughly 70,000. In 2009, Utrecht had approximately 300,000 inhabitants. By 2023, the number of inhabitants had grown to over 368,000. This was approximately one quarter of the total population of the province of the same name, of which the city of Utrecht is the capital. In 2021, the province of Utrecht had roughly 1.37 million inhabitants, making it the fifth-largest province in the country after South and North Holland, North Brabant and Gelderland.

 Fourth-largest city in the Netherlands   

With its 360 thousand inhabitants, Utrecht is one of the largest cities in the country. The capital, Amsterdam, is the largest city in the Netherlands, with roughly 873,000 inhabitants, followed by Rotterdam and The Hague. Utrecht follows in fourth place.

Rabobank and NS headquarters  

Utrecht is home to a large number of internationally operating companies, of which Dutch bank Rabobank is just one. One of the leading banks in the country, Rabobank had nearly 450 branches nationwide in 2018. The Rabobank headquarters are in Utrecht though, as are the headquarters of the national railway organization (NS). Utrecht also has the largest railway station in the country, receiving an average of nearly 272.8 thousand passengers every working day.

The Dutch capital of Amsterdam had a shared mobility fleet of ** vehicles per 10,000 inhabitants in 2022. Nearly half of this fleet was made up of station-based and free-floating bicycles, while the rest of fleet included mopeds and cars but no electric scooters.

Within the four biggest municipalities in the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht), the demand for office space varies. In general, Amsterdam's demand is higher than those of the other municipalities. In 2020, ******* square meters of office space was in demand in Amsterdam. In Utrecht, however, this number was ****** square meters. Amsterdam is the most expensive Dutch city for office space. As of 2020, the average rent of office space was *** euros per square meter, well above the average rate in the rest of Netherlands' major cities.

Between 2009 and 2023, the population of Maastricht increased, from just over 118,000 to roughly 123,000 inhabitants. This was just over ten percent of the total number of people living in the Limburg province, of which Maastricht is the capital. In 2023, Limburg’s population amounted to roughly 1.12 million inhabitants, making it the seventh province in the country based on population size.

 Largest cities in the Netherlands   

Although a sizable city for Dutch standards, Maastricht was not among the ten largest cities in the Netherlands in 2022. The capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, is the largest city in the country, with roughly 883,000 inhabitants, followed by Rotterdam and The Hague. Utrecht, Eindhoven, Tilburg, Almere, Groningen, Breda and Nijmegen are all larger than Maastricht as well.

Leading university for international students  

Outside of the Netherlands, Maastricht is well-known for its research university, which attracts students from all over the world. Maastricht University has the largest number of international students of all institutes in the Netherlands, numbering roughly 10.9 thousand in 2020/21. According to the most recent figures, over 55 percent of Maastricht University’s students had roots outside the Netherlands – more than any other university in the country.

In 2024, Russia had the largest population among European countries at ***** million people. The next largest countries in terms of their population size were Turkey at **** million, Germany at **** million, the United Kingdom at **** million, and France at **** million. Europe is also home to some of the world’s smallest countries, such as the microstates of Liechtenstein and San Marino, with populations of ****** and ****** respectively. Europe’s largest economies Germany was Europe’s largest economy in 2023, with a Gross Domestic Product of around *** trillion Euros, while the UK and France are the second and third largest economies, at *** trillion and *** trillion euros respectively. Prior to the mid-2000s, Europe’s fourth-largest economy, Italy, had an economy that was of a similar sized to France and the UK, before diverging growth patterns saw the UK and France become far larger economies than Italy. Moscow and Istanbul the megacities of Europe Two cities on the eastern borders of Europe were Europe’s largest in 2023. The Turkish city of Istanbul, with a population of 15.8 million, and the Russian capital, Moscow, with a population of 12.7 million. Istanbul is arguably the world’s most famous transcontinental city with territory in both Europe and Asia and has been an important center for commerce and culture for over 2,000 years. Paris was the third largest European city with a population of ** million, with London being the fourth largest at *** million.

There were roughly 1.77 million international hotel guests in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands, throughout 2021. The majority of international tourists comprised of Europeans, with some 1.44 million travelers from the continent visiting the city during that year. Travelers from Oceania constituted the smallest share of international visitors in Amsterdam, with the city reporting only nine thousand individuals from the region in 2021. Hotels in the Netherlands The Netherlands is major tourist destination for travelers worldwide. Visitors spent approximately 4.38 million hotel nights in the Netherlands in 2021. European tourists, excluding those from the Netherlands, made up the largest share of hotel night consumers in the country, having spent 3.73 million hotel nights in 2021. The Dutch tourism industry was challenged by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which began in 2020, as is evident from the drop in inbound tourists in the Netherlands from 20.1 million in 2019 to 7.3 million in 2020. City spotlight: Rotterdam Rotterdam, a city located in the province of Zuid-Holland, attracted roughly 206 thousand hotel guests from abroad during 2020. Other than domestic travelers, German tourists constituted the largest share of hotel guests in Rotterdam in 2020, as some 52 thousand Germans visited the port city in that year.

In 2023, the population of Groningen (including the smaller towns Haren, Hoogkerk, Ten Boer and Glimmen) amounted to just under 238,100 making it the largest city in the north of the country and the eighth-largest city in the Netherlands. In the last ten years, Groningen’s population grew slowly but steadily, from roughly 184 thousand in 2009 to approximately 238,100 today. 

Groningen: city, municipality and province  

Groningen is the capital of the province of the same name, which numbered approximately 587 thousand inhabitants in 2022. One of the most sparsely regions of the country, only Zeeland, Flevoland and Drenthe had fewer inhabitants than Groningen that year. The municipality Groningen as well as the province saw a positive population development in this period: between 2009 and 2022, the province’s population increased. This is also in line with the general demographic trend in the Netherlands, as the country experienced year on year population growth in the last decade.

 Groningen, pride of the north?   

A rural region far away from the country’s Randstad center, many inhabitants of the province feel strongly connected to their home turf. In a recent survey, nearly 70 percent of ‘Groningers’ – as the inhabitants of Groningen are called – stated to feel strongly connected to their province. The same survey found that Groningers were also generally very proud of their province – although not quite at the same level of their Frisian neighbors, who topped the ranking. The mentality of the people, the nature as well as the capital’s scenic old town were among the most-frequently mentioned reasons to be proud of Groningen. By contrast, few Groningers took pride in local football team FC Groningen or in specific regional dishes.