GDP, output and expenditures; changes, QNA, 1995-2017
Explanation of symbols
Table explanation
This table provides data from Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) of Statistics The Netherlands. It contains quarterly and annual data on production, expenditures, income and external economic transactions of The Netherlands.
The above mentioned macroeconomic variables are presented in:
- Percentage volume changes on corresponding quarter of previous year.
- Percentage volume changes on previous period.
- Percentage value changes on corresponding quarter of previous year.
- Percentage value changes on previous period.
- Percentage price changes on corresponding quarter of previous year.
Data available from: 1995 first quarter up to and including 2018 first quarter.
Status of the figures:
The figures of the period 1995-2014 are final. Data of 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 are provisional. Since this table has been discontinued, data will not become final.
Changes as of June 22nd 2018:
None. This table has been discontinued.
Statistics Netherlands has carried out a revision of the national accounts. New statistical sources and estimation methods have been used during the revision. Therefore this table has been replaced by table GDP, output and expenditures; changes, Quarterly National Accounts. For further information see section 3.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable anymore.
Description topics
- Production approach to GDP
- The way GDP is formed by underlying components in the so-called production approach. In this approach GDP equals the sum of value added over all branches (including non-commercial ones). Value added is thereby registered at basic prices. GDP at market prices is obtained by adding taxes less subsidies on production and the difference between imputed and paid VAT. The included taxes and subsidies apply both to produced and imported goods and services. Examples of these are VAT and taxes on import.
- Value added basic prices
- The value of all goods and services produced (production value or output), minus those that have been intermediately used upon production (intermediate consumption). Value added is rated at basic prices: purchaser's prices minus trade and transport margins and taxes on products paid and plus subsidies on products received. Intermediate consumption is rated at purchaser's prices minus non-deductible VAT.
Included is the output by all kind-of-activity units residing in the Netherlands, also those that are held by foreign owners.
Net value added can be obtained by deducting consumption of fixed capital from gross value added.- A-F Agriculture and industry
- This category is made up of the categories:
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing
B Mining and quarrying
C Manufacturing
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
F Construction- B-E Industry (no construction), energy
- This category is made up of the categories:
B Mining and quarrying
C Manufacturing
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities- C Manufacturing
- Manufacturing
- 10-12 Manufacture of food and beverages
- Manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco
This category is made up of the categories:
10 Manufacture of food products
11 Manufacture of beverages
12 Manufacture of tobacco products
- E Water supply and waste management
- Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
- G-N Commercial services
- Commercial services
This category is made up of the categories:
G Wholesale and retail trade
H Transportation and storage
I Accommodation and food serving
J Information and communication
K Financial institutions
L Renting and buying and selling of real estate
M Consultancy, research and other specialised business services
N Renting and leasing of tangible goods and other business support services- G-I Trade, transport, hotels, catering
- Trade, transport, hotels, catering
This category is made up of the categories:
G Wholesale and retail trade
H Transportation and storage
I Accommodation and food serving- H Transportation and storage
- Transportation and storage
- M-N Business services
- Business services
This category is made up of the categories:
M Consultancy, research and other specialised business services
N Renting and leasing of tangible goods and other business support services- N Renting and other business support
- Renting and leasing of tangible goods and other business support services
- 79 Travel agencies, tour operators etc
- 79 Travel agencies, tour operators, tourist information and reservation
- Additional details
- The additional details of some variables in the previous parts of this table are being given in this section.
- Final consumption expenditure
- Expenditure on goods or services that are used for the direct satisfaction of individual or collective needs. Expenses may be made at home or abroad, but they are always made by resident institutional units, that is households or institutions residing in the Netherlands. By definition only households, non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) and government institutions consume. Enterprises do not: expenses they make on goods and services are thought to serve production and are therefore classified as intermediate consumption of fixed capital formation. The general government is a special case. The government also has intermediate consumption, just like enterprises. But the output delivered by the government which is not directly paid for, non-market output (like safety), is classified as consumption by the general government. It is said that the government ‘consumes its own production’. The system of national accounts demands that all that is produced is also consumed (or serves as an investment). By convention, government output is consumed by the government itself. This is not the only consumption by the general government. It also contains social transfers in kind. In the Netherlands this mainly concerns health care bills paid for by the government and an allowance for the rent.
- Expenditure classification
- This classification focuses on the expenses for consumption goods and services. The total final consumptions is divided to sectors which actually financed the consumption expenditures.
- Households including NPISHs
- Consumption expenditure by households and non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs). Not all expenses made by households are seen as consumptive, households may invest as well. These investments mainly concern the purchase of houses and substantial costs on maintenance. Small costs on maintenance, indoor painting and the purchase of furniture is classified as consumption. This also applies to the purchase of cars and car maintenance.
- Consumption of goods
- Consumption of goods by households and NPI households.
- Food, beverages and tobacco products
- Food products, beverages and tobacco products
- Total
- Food products
- Food products
- Beverages and tobacco products
- Beverages and tobacco products
- Exports by groups of products
- Exports by groups of products in according to standard products classification CPA 2008.
- Total exports of goods and services
- Transactions in goods and services (sales, barter and gifts) from residents (in the Netherlands) to non-residents. Exports of goods occurs when economic ownership of goods is passed from residents to non-residents. This applies irrespective of corresponding physical movements of goods across frontiers. An enterprise or institution is considered residential after it has been active in the Netherlands for at least one year. This applies irrespective of the question whether the enterprise or institute has foreign owners.
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing products
- Products of agriculture, forestry and fishing
- Mining and quarrying
- Mining and quarrying
- Food, beverages and tobacco products
- Food products, beverages and tobacco products
- Textiles, wearing apparel and leather
- Textiles, wearing apparel and leather products
- Wood and paper products, and printing
- Wood and paper products, and printing services
- Coke and refined petroleum products
- Coke and refined petroleum products
- Chemical and pharmaceutical products
- Chemicals and chemical products, basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
- Rubber, plastics and other minerals
- Rubber and plastics products, and other non-metallic mineral products.
- Basic metals and metal products
- Basic metals and fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
- Machinery and electrical equipment
- Electrical equipment, machinery and equipment n.e.c.
- Computer, electronic, optical products
- Computer, electronic and optical products
- Transport equipment
- Transport equipment
- Other manufactured products i.e.
- Other manufactured products i.e.
- Other products
- Other products not elswhere classified
- Consumption non-residents in Netherlands
- Final consumption by non-resident in the Netherlands.
- Exports of used assets
- Exports of used assets
- Cif/fob-adjustment
- Cif/fob adjustment of the transport costs abroad of Dutch freighters. Total imports (goods) and exports (services) are reduced by the same amount.
- Imports by groups of products
- Imports by groups of products in according to standard products classification CPA 2008.
- Total imports of goods and services
- Transactions in goods and services (sales, barter and gifts) from non-residents to residents (in the Netherlands). Imports of goods occurs when economic ownership of goods is passed from non-residents to residents. This applies irrespective of corresponding physical movements of goods across frontiers. An enterprise or institution is considered residential after it has been active in the Netherlands for at least one year. This applies irrespective of the question whether the enterprise or institute has foreign owners.
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing products
- Products of agriculture, forestry and fishing
- Mining and quarrying
- Mining and quarrying
- Food, beverages and tobacco products
- Food, beverages and tobacco products
- Textiles, wearing apparel and leather
- Textiles, wearing apparel and leather products
- Wood and paper products, and printing
- Wood and paper products, and printing services
- Coke and refined petroleum products
- Coke and refined petroleum products
- Chemical and pharmaceutical products
- Chemicals and chemical products, basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
- Rubber, plastics and other minerals
- Rubber and plastics products, and other non-metallic mineral products.
- Basic metals and metal products
- Basic metals and fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
- Machinery and electrical equipment
- Electrical equipment, machinery and equipment n.e.c.
- Computer, electronic, optical products
- Computer, electronic and optical products
- Transport equipment
- Transport equipment
- Other manufactured products i.e.
- Other manufactured products i.e.
- Other products
- Other products not elswhere classified
- Consumption by residents abroad
- Final consumption by residents in the rest of the world.
- Cif/fob-adjustment
- Cif/fob adjustment of the transport costs abroad of Dutch freighters. Total imports (goods) and exports (services) are reduced by the same amount.