The country’s population has grown by a million in eight years, straining housing and public services
The population of the Netherlands officially passed the 18 million mark this week, but the Dutch are not celebrating as the small country struggles with housing and public service shortages amid growing resentment over immigration.
Immigration from other European Union countries, especially Poland as well as war-torn Ukraine and from Syria, is driving a faster rate of population growth, which has nearly doubled in pace in the last eight years.
