The figures on live births include all live births irrespective of the duration of pregnancy.
Birth order is the birth order of all live births to the mother.
Figures on mortality represent the number of deaths in the 'de jure' population of the Netherlands. The external migration statistics relate to all individuals either arriving in or departing from the Netherlands, whose arrivals and departures result into entries in or removals from the Dutch population registers. Removal from the population register followed if a person, irrespective of nationality, intended to leave the Netherlands permanently or for an intended indefinite period exceeding 360 days. As from October 1994 these criteria are 120 days in the following six months for immigration and 240 days in the following twelve months in case of emigration. These 120 and 240 days need not be an uninterrupted period.