Households; size, composition, position in the household, 1 January

Changed on: 07/08/2023 02:00

Households; size, composition, position in the household, 1 January
Periods	Persons by household position Total of the Netherlands (number)	Persons in institutional households By sex and marital status Total men and women (number)	Persons in institutional households By type of institution Homes for the elderly and nursing homes (number)
1995	15,424,122	247,708	.
1996	15,493,889	247,482	.
1997	15,567,107	241,531	.
1998	15,654,192	236,736	145,115
1999	15,760,225	230,507	141,352
2000	15,863,943	224,003	136,964
2001	15,987,074	218,784	133,742
2002	16,105,283	216,789	131,956
2003	16,192,572	214,800	129,804
2004	16,258,032	214,912	128,116
2005	16,305,526	213,202	126,667
2006	16,334,210	208,653	123,891
2007	16,357,992	206,732	121,027
2008	16,405,399	206,864	119,619
2009	16,485,787	207,003	118,945
2010	16,574,989	208,687	119,063
2011	16,655,799	219,315	121,674
2012	16,730,348	219,224	120,393
2013	16,779,575	214,784	118,252
2014	16,829,289	249,942	121,644
2015	16,900,726	244,794	118,593
2016	16,979,120	254,888	120,668
2017	17,081,507	245,302	115,321
2018	17,181,084	248,772	116,189
2019	17,282,163	246,661	115,394
2020	17,407,585	258,863	119,911
2021	17,475,415	258,760	117,231
2022	17,590,672	262,539	118,805
2023	17,811,291	276,024	125,046
Source: CBS.

Explanation of symbols

Dataset is not available.

This table contains information about the progress of the households in the Netherlands by size and composition and persons by household position, on 1 January.

Data available from: 1995

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final.

With the information available for the reporting years 1995, 1996 and 1997 it is not easy to make an unambiguous assignment of persons in institutional households in three distinct categories of institutions. For this reason the numbers are set as unknown.

Changes as of 7 August 2023:
The figures of 1 January 2023 have been added.

When will new figures be published?
The final figures of 1 January 2024 will be added in the 4th quarter of 2024.

Description topics

Persons by household position

Household:
Private or institutional household.

Private household:
One or more persons sharing the same living space, who provide for their own everyday needs in a private, non-commercial way.

Institutional household:
Household consisting of one or more persons living in one accommodation whose housing and daily needs are provided professionally.
Included are institutions such as nursing homes, homes for the elderly, mental health institutions, forensic psychiatric institutions, institutions for mentally, physically or sensorily disabled persons, drug rehabilitation centres, shelters for the homeless, boarding schools, monasteries, prisons, military barracks, and asylum reception centres, in which persons (will) live for a longer period of time. From 2014, people in institutional households are presented in three groups, namely: homes for the elderly and nursing homes, other health care institution and other type of institution.

Household position:
Position someone has in a household in relation to the reference person of that household.

Reference person
Member of the household on whom the household positions of the other household members are based, and whose characteristics may also be characteristic for the household.
The reference person in a household is chosen as follows:
- the reference person in a heterosexual relationship is always the man;
- in homosexual relationships, the reference person is the older of the two;
- in a single-parent household the reference person is the parent;
- in 'other households' the reference person is the oldest man, or if there are no men, the oldest woman.

Total of the Netherlands

Persons in institutional households

Institutional household:
One or more persons living in one accommodation whose housing and daily needs are provided professionally.
Included are institutions such as nursing homes, homes for the elderly, mental health institutions, forensic psychiatric institutions, institutions for mentally, physically or sensorily disabled persons, drug rehabilitation centres, shelters for the homeless, boarding schools, monasteries, prisons, military barracks, and asylum reception centres, in which persons (will) live for a longer period of time. From 2014, people in institutional households are presented in three groups, namely:
homes for the elderly and nursing homes, other health care institution and other type of institution.

By sex and marital status

Marital status:
Marital status resulting from a legal marriage ceremony. Judicial separations are included in the category married.

Marriage:
Legal, formally sanctioned living arrangement between two people.
Since 1 April 2001, it is legally possible for people in the Netherlands to marry a person of the same sex.

Registered partnership:
A marriage-like relationship between two people of the opposite or same sex, registered at the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Registered partnership was introduced in The Netherlands on 1 January 1998.

Total men and women: Total of men and women living in institutional households.

By type of institution

Homes for the elderly and nursing homes: Homes for permanent residence of old persons, including care such as meals, cleaning, monitoring alarm systems and personal support.