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

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

Periods Persons by household position Total of the Netherlands (number)
1995 15,424,122
1996 15,493,889
1997 15,567,107
1998 15,654,192
1999 15,760,225
2000 15,863,943
2001 15,987,074
2002 16,105,283
2003 16,192,572
2004 16,258,032
2005 16,305,526
2006 16,334,210
2007 16,357,992
2008 16,405,399
2009 16,485,787
2010 16,574,989
2011 16,655,799
2012 16,730,348
2013 16,779,575
2014 16,829,289
2015 16,900,726
2016 16,979,120
2017 17,081,507
2018 17,181,084
2019 17,282,163
2020 17,407,585
2021 17,475,415
2022 17,590,672
2023 17,811,291
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

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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