Health, lifestyle, health care use and supply, causes of death; from 1900
| Periods | Care supply Health professions Social welfare doctors (number) | Care supply Health and social care expenditure Expenditure in current prices (mln euro) | Care supply Health and social care expenditure Health and social care volume index (2015=100) | Care supply Health and social care expenditure Per capita health and social care expd. (euro) | Care supply Health and social care expenditure Expenditure as percentage of the GDP (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Source: CBS. | |||||
Table explanation
This table presents a wide variety of historical data in the field of health, lifestyle and health care. Figures on births and mortality, causes of death and the occurrence of certain infectious diseases are available from 1900, other series from later dates.
In addition to self-perceived health, the table contains figures on infectious diseases, hospitalisations per diagnosis, life expectancy, lifestyle factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption and obesity, and causes of death. The table also gives information on several aspects of health care, such as the number of practising professionals, the number of available hospital beds, nursing day averages and the expenditures on care.
Many subjects are also covered in more detail by data in other tables, although sometimes with a shorter history. Data on notifiable infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS are not included in other tables.
Data available from: 1900
Status of the figures:
2025:
The available figures are definite.
2024:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- notifiable infectious diseases, hiv, aids;
- expenditures on health and welfare;
- causes of death.
2023:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- notifiable infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS;
- diagnoses at hospital admissions;
- number of hospital discharges and length of stay;
- number of hospital beds;
- health professions;
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditures on health and welfare.
2022:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- notifiable infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS;
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditures on health and welfare.
2021:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- notifiable infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS;
2020 and earlier:
Most available figures are definite.
Due to 'dynamic' registrations, figures for notifiable infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS remain provisional.
Changes as of 18 December 2025:
The most recent available figures have been added for:
- live born children, deaths;
- notifiable infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS;
- expenditures on health and welfare;
- healthy life expectancy;
- perinatal and infant mortality;
- average age of the mother at 1st birth;
- multiple births.
Changes as of 18 december 2024:
- Due to a revision of the statistics Health and welfare expenditure 2021, figures for expenditure on health and welfare have been replaced from 2021 onwards.
- Revised figures on the volume index of healthcare costs are not yet available, these figures have been deleted from 2021 onwards.
When will new figures be published?
June 2026.
Description topics
- Care supply
- Quantitative data on hospitals, health professionals and costs of care.
- Health professions
- Until 1998, the figures refer either to the number of active professionals or to the number of registered professionals on 31 December of the year concerned, depending on the profession.
From 1999, the figures apply to qualified medically trained professionals registered in the official health professions register (BIG-register) on the reference date (last Friday in September), who are employed in the Dutch care sector or care-related activities, depending on the type of profession. They include Dutch residents and non-residents who work in the Netherlands.- Social welfare doctors
- Physicians who treat medical problems related to living, housing and job situation, including occupational physicians, insurance physicians and public health physicians.
Up to 1998: the number of registered social welfare doctors.
From 1999: the number of BIG-registered social welfare doctors working in the Dutch care sector, or care-related activities.
Care-related activities:
Activities that are not officially part of the Dutch care sector, but where care professionals may be expected to be active, e.g. in education, government, or in care-related industries such as health insurance or the pharmaceutical industry.
- Health and social care expenditure
- Expenditure on medical care, long-term care, welfare and social services, youth care and child care. Care includes provision of services and goods. Expenditure includes care provided to non-residents by Dutch care providers. As it concerns final use expenditure, industry and wholesale figures do not count, as these sectors do not supply their products directly to consumers/patients. Also, expenditure on cross-supplies between care providers does not count. Care expenditure expressed in actual prices indicates expenditure in prices of the year under review and reflects value trends. It refers to expenditure on care goods and services by all institutions, practices and organisations providing those goods and services; providers for whom it is not their main work also count.
These figures refer to a broader definition than internationally used in the System of Health Accounts, that refers to health care including long term nursing care (health).
Due to the revision of the 2021 Health and social care expenditure statistics, figures for 2021-2023 are not easily comparable with previous years.- Expenditure in current prices
- The expenditure on health and social care is expressed in euros of the year under review. In this way the series gives the development of the value of the expenditure.
Due to the revision of the 2021 Health and social care expenditure statistics, figures for 2021-2023 are not easily comparable with previous years.
- Health and social care volume index
- Health and social care expenditure, volume index
The weighted average of the volume changes of the constituent products, index figures compared to the reference year 2015.
This series is temporarily unavailable from 2021 onwards due to the revision of the statistics Health and social care expenditure.
- Per capita health and social care expd.
- Total health and social care expenditure calculated per capita.
Due to the revision of the 2021 Health and social care expenditure statistics, figures for 2021-2023 are not easily comparable with previous years.
- Expenditure as percentage of the GDP
- Total expenditure on health and social care expressed as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP).
Due to the revision of the 2021 Health and social care expenditure statistics, figures for 2021-2023 are not easily comparable with previous years.