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Amsterdam population

741,636people · latest figure

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Amsterdam has a population of 741,636, making it the 2nd largest place we list in The Netherlands. It is in North Holland.

Amsterdam holds 4.0% of The Netherlands's 18,448,775 people. Rotterdam, the largest place we list there, is only slightly larger. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 741,636, almost unchanged.

741,636
population
741,636
in 2005
+0.0%
since 2005
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
RotterdamSouth Holland868,135
The HagueSouth Holland474,292
UtrechtUtrecht376,435
GroningenGroningen244,807

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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.