Health, lifestyle, health care use and supply, causes of death; key figures
Explanation of symbols
Dataset is not available.
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:
2023:
The available figures are definite.
2022:
Most available figures are definite, figures are provisional for:
- diagnoses known to the general practitioner;
- supplied drugs;
- AWBZ/Wlz-financed care with accommodation;
- AWBZ/Wlz-funded long term care;
- Mbo health care graduates, Hbo nursing graduates, medicine graduates (university);
- expenditures of care;
- profitability and operating results at institutions.
2021:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- hospital admissions by some diagnoses;
- average period of hospitalization;
- physicians and nurses employed in care;
- persons employed in health and welfare.
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditures of care.
2020:
Most available figures are final.
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditures of care.
2019 and earlier:
All available figures are definite.
Changes as of 22 December 2023:
More recent figures have been added for:
- crude birth rate;
- live births to teenage mothers;
- causes of death;
- perinatal mortality at pregnancy duration at least 24 weeks;
- life expectancy in perceived good health;
- diagnoses known to the general practitioner;
- supplied drugs;
- AWBZ/Wlz-funded long term care;
- youth care;
- average distance to facilities;
- profitability and operating results at institutions.
Changes as of 7 July 2023:
The series 'Hbo nursing graduates' and 'medicine graduates (university)' have been replaced from 2016 for figures rounded to tens.
When will new figures be published?
New figures will be published in December 2024.
Description topics
- Births, deaths and life expectancy
- Crude birth rate, the number of live births to teenage mothers and older mothers, some causes of death, perinatal mortality, life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
- Some causes of death
- Deaths by main primary cause of death per 10 000 of the average population.
In addition to relative figures for road traffic accidents and suicides, absolute numbers are also presented.
The basis for the classification and coding used for mortality by cause of death is the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD; World Health Organisation (WHO)), version 10.
Average population
The average population in agegroup L for year t is calculated as follows:
((Population in agegroup (L) on January 1st year t)+
(Population in agegroup (L) on January 1st year t+1))/2.
The calculation of the average of children at the age of zero years differs from this definition and has been calculated as follows:
((live births in year t)+(children aged zero years on 1 January of year t+1))/2.- All causes of death
- Total of all causes of death.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: A00-Y89;
ICD-9: 001-E999;
ICD-8: 000-E999.
- Malignant neoplasms
- Malignant neoplasms, cancer.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: C00-C97;
ICD-9: 140-208;
ICD-8: 140-209.
- Diseases of the circulatory system
- Diseases of the circulatory system.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: I00-I99;
ICD-9: 390-459;
ICD-8: 390-458.
- Diseases of the respiratory system
- Diseases of the respiratory system.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: J00-J99;
ICD-9: 460-519;
ICD-8: 460-519.
- Diseases of the digestive system
- Diseases of the digestive system.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: K00-K93;
ICD-9: 520-579;
ICD-8: 520-577
- Road accidents, relative
- Road accidents.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: See table explanation for a link to the complete list of 4-digit codes.
ICD-9: E810-E819, E826-E829;
ICD-8: E810-E819, E825-E827, E940-E941
- Road accidents
- Road accidents.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: See table explanation for a link to the complete list of 4-digit codes.
ICD-9: E810-E819, E826-E829;
ICD-8: E810-E819, E825-E827, E940-E941
- Suicide, self-inflicted injury, relative
- Suicide and self-inflicted injury.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: X60-X84;
ICD-9: E950-E959;
ICD-8: E950-E959.
- Suicide and self-inflicted injury
- Suicide and self-inflicted injury.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: X60-X84;
ICD-9: E950-E959;
ICD-8: E950-E959.
- COVID-19, total of virus identified and virus not identified
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: U07.1 and U07.2
- Health and disease
- Perceived health, contacts with the GP and hospital admissions for some diagnoses, sickness absence
- Hospital admissions by some diagnoses
- Clinical and day care admissions and observations without overnight stay in general and university hospitals and two hospitals specialising in one type of disease.
Diagnoses are recorded according to the 'International Classification of Diseases'. Up to 2013 version 9 was used (ICD-9-CM), From 2013 onwards version 10 (ICD-10) is used.
Diagnoses are classified according to the International Shortlist for Hospital Morbidity Tabulation (ISHMT). Categories are definied slightly different using ICD-9 (up to 2013) or ICD-10 (from 2013).
Figures on diagnoses refer to the principal diagnosis registered at each admission, as indicated at discharge form the hospital.
The figures are expressed per 10 000 of the population in the year under review.- Injury, poisoning, other external causes
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 800-999
ICD-10: S00-T98.
- Use of health care services
- Average period of hospitalisation, supplied drugs, number of contacts with health care providers, AWBZ/Wlz- funded long term care, including persons older than 80 in the population, youth care.
- Average period of hospitalisation
- Number of nursing days in a given period divided by the number of patients admitted.
- Wlz/AWBZ-funded long term care
- Residential care funded under the Chronic Care Act (Wlz) and (before 2015) under the Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ).
- Use of Wlz/AWBZ-funded residential care
- The number of persons aged 18 years or older at the end of the year (second Friday of November) receiving residential care, funded under the Chronic Care Act (Wlz) and (before 2015) under the Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ), and for which a personal contribution was paid.
Residential care includes all care received in kind in an institution, for which a personal contribution must be paid and the costs of which are borne by the Wlz/AWBZ.
Short stay in an institution is also included.
Persons under 18 years of age do not have to pay a personal contribution.
As of 2011, residential care is classified according to the type of care received, expressed in care severity packages (zzp's).
There are zzps for Nursing and Care (VV), Disability Care (GHZ) and Long-Term Mental Health Care (GGZ) sectors.- Total residential care
- The total number of persons receiving residential care in nursing homes, care for the disabled or mental health care.
In some cases the type of care is not known.
This may occur in the following situations:
- in the case of an older needs assessment for AWBZ-funded care, remaining valid for the duration of the needs assessment
- in the case of short-term stay.
- in the case of Wlz/AWBZ-care paid with a personal budget (PGB).
- No care package (zzp)
- Care for which no care package is known may occurr in the following situations:
- older indications started under the General Act on Exceptional Medical Expenses (AWBZ). Older indications for residential care remain valid for the duration of the indication. The lack of the care package in the indication means that the care package is also lacking in data on the use of care.
- use of short-term stay under the Long-Term Care Act (Wlz)
- use of care in the form of a personal budget (PGB) for Wlz-indictibles.
- use of care in the form of a modular package at home (mpt). Persons with mpt who have a registered care package are included in 'No care package (zzp)' for the purpose of comparability of the figures. This occurs for the first time in 2017.
- Nursing and care
- Persons with a care package (zzp) Nursing and Care
Care for the elderly and chronically ill on the basis of a care package (zzp) in the Nursing and Care (VV) sector.
- Care for the disabled
- Persons with a care package (zzp) Care for the disabled
Care for persons with physical, mental or sensory disabilities based on a care severity package (zzp) in the Disability Care Sector (GHZ).
- Mental health care
- Persons with a care package (zzp) Mental health care
Long-term residence in a mental health institution
Care for persons with mental and/or psychiatric problems on the basis of a care severity package (zzp) in the Mental Health Care sector (GGZ), insofar as this is financed from the Wlz/AWBZ (also called long-term GGZ).