General The Netherlands now have about 15 million inhabitants, compared to 2.6 million in 1830. At that time part of the newly established Kingdom of The Netherlands (1815, see Short history) became an independent new Kingdom separate from what is now Belgium. It is one of the highest populated countries in the world with almost 450 inhabitants per square km (725 per square mile). The main increase, 5 million, took place between 1945-1980. Over 47% of our population is living in the four western provinces; Noord- and Zuid-Holland, Utrecht and Zeeland.

Seventeenth Century
The number of adults in 1622 and of houses in 1632 in the towns of Goeree-Overflakkee.

Census
In1947 Zuid-Holland, excluding The Hague and Rotterdam, had over a million inhabitants of which three percent on Goeree-Overflakkee.

Concentration
How some of the Goeree-Overflakkee surnames are concentrated in only one village.

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Goeree-Overflakkee family names listed in the 1997 directory.

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