... definitely not from births. **Bottom line:** 2022 looks like it is a pretty big decrease from trend in natural population growth in Netherlands, but there have been many larger variations in the past. This ends a run of positive natural population growth which began in about 1998. This is a follow-up on an [earlier post](https://poal.co/s/WorldNews/605763) from @Ex-Redditor [Archive Link](https://web.archive.org/web/20230106190905/https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2023/01/population-growth-almost-doubled-in-2022) [Source Link](https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2023/01/population-growth-almost-doubled-in-2022) The source article here comes directly from [Statistics Netherlands](https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/about-us/organisation), the Netherlands national statistics office. The spin is that the (((population is growing!))). "Asia," and, "Europe," are the leading regions for *immigrés* named Mohammad. They do give some gentle treatment to the fact that more people died than were born. This is shocking because the net is negative, but it is not shocking when evaluated against the trend [since 1950](https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/figures/detail/37296eng?dl=75CF6). It has never dipped below zero, but they are at that point in the trend where below zero was going to happen. I remain cautiously pessimistic.