Some 932,000 people currently living in the Netherlands were alive on Liberation Day, 5 May 1945, according to calculations by national statistics agency CBS.

Of these, 423,000 were aged five or older at the time and are likely to remember the event, the CBS said. Around 2,600 are now over the age of 100.

In 2015, when the 70th anniversary of the end of the war was marked, nearly two million members of the current population had been alive in 1945.

By 2035, that number will have dropped to 200,000, and by 2045 — 100 years after the end of the war — the CBS expects around 7,000 people will still be alive who were born at that time.

Most people aged 80 and over live in the north of the country or close to the Dutch borders. The wealthy suburb of Laren has the highest proportion of over-80s, followed by Bergen.

The smallest number live in Almere, a new town, and the former island of Urk.