Health, lifestyle, health care use and supply, causes of death; key figures
| Periods | Education and labour market Physicians employed in care (aantal) | Education and labour market Nurses employed in care (aantal) | Education and labour market Employed in health and welfare (x 1 000) | Education and labour market Employed in health care (x 1 000) | Education and labour market Mbo caring graduates (number) | Education and labour market Mbo nursing graduates (number) | Education and labour market Hbo nursing graduates (number) | Education and labour market Medicine graduates (university) (number) |
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| 2025 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||||
Table explanation
This table provides an overview of the key figures on health and care available on StatLine. All figures are taken from other tables on StatLine, either directly or through a simple conversion. In the original tables, breakdowns by characteristics of individuals or other variables are possible.
The period after the year of review before data become available differs between the data series.
The number of exam passes/graduates in year t is the number of persons who obtained a diploma in school/study year starting in t-1 and ending in t.
Data available from: 2001
Status of the figures:
2025:
All available figures are definite.
2024:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- causes of death;
- diagnoses known to the general practitioner;
- supplied drugs;
- AWBZ/Wlz-funded long term care;
- youth care;
- persons employed in health and welfare;
- persons employed in healthcare;
- Mbo health care graduates;
- Hbo nursing graduates / medicine graduates (university);
- expenditures on health and welfare;
- average distance to facilities;
- profitability and operating results at institutions;
2023:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- hospital admissions by some diagnoses;
- average period of hospitalisation;
- physicians and nurses employed in care;
- persons employed in health and welfare;
- persons employed in healthcare;
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditures on health and welfare.
2022:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditures on health and welfare.
2021 and earlier:
All available figures are definite.
Changes as of 18 December 2025:
More recent figures have been added for:
- crude birth rate;
- live births to teenage mothers;
- perinatal mortality at pregnancy duration at least 24 weeks;
- diagnoses known to the general practitioner;
- supplied drugs;
- persons aged 80 or older;
- AWBZ/Wlz-funded long term care;
- youth care;
- expenditures on health and welfare;
- average distance to facilities;
- profitability and operating results at institutions;
When will new figures be published?
New figures will be published in July 2026.
Description topics
- Education and labour market
- Physicians employed in care
- Qualified medically trained physicians and medical specialists registered in the BIG register (the Dutch central register of specific health care professions), who are employed in the Dutch care sector; resident in the Netherlands or abroad.
Dutch care sector
Organisations with a code in the Statistics Netherlands' Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (SBI) starting with 85 (SBI 1993) or 86, 87 or 88 (SBI 2008).
- Nurses employed in care
- Qualified nurses registered in the BIG register (the Dutch central register of specific health care professions), who are employed in the Dutch care sector; resident in the Netherlands or abroad.
Dutch care sector
Organisations with a code in the Statistics Netherlands' Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (SBI) starting with 85 (SBI 1993) or 86, 87 or 88 (SBI 2008).
- Employed in health and welfare
- Persons employed in a Netherlands-based company or a private household in the Netherlands, with main activities in health care and welfare.
This sector includes:
- treatment in general and specialised hospitals;
- mental health and addiction care, possibly in combination with overnight admission;
- treatment at medical and paramedical practices;
- support activities for health care, e.g. laboratories and ambulance services;
- nursing care or assistance with housing by, e.g. nursing homes or organisations for assisted living schemes;
- welfare care, such as home care, local welfare and assistance to disabled and elderly persons;
- childcare.
- Employed in health care
- Persons employed in a Netherlands-based company or a private household in the Netherlands, with main activities in health care.
This sector includes:
- treatment in general and specialised hospitals;
- mental health and addiction care, possibly in combination with overnight admission;
- treatment at medical and paramedical practices;
- support activities for health care, e.g. laboratories and ambulance services;
- Mbo caring graduates
- Graduates of senior secondary vocational education (mbo) with a qualification to become a carer (verzorgde individuele gezondheidszorg)
- Mbo nursing graduates
- Graduates of senior secondary vocational education (mbo) with a qualification to become a nurse
- Hbo nursing graduates
- Graduates form higher professional education (hbo) with a bachelor's degree in nursing.
- Medicine graduates (university)
- Persons with a university masters degree in medicine.