Welfare of households; key figures

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Household characteristics Median wealth (1 000 euro) Wealth inequality (Gini coefficient)
Private households 135.5 0.725
Type: Single person household 18.7 0.789
Type: Multi-person household 226.7 0.677
Type: One-parent family 18.5 0.790
Type: Couple, total 254.8 0.655
Type: Couple, no children 264.4 0.657
Type: Couple, with child(ren) 246.5 0.653
Type: Multi-person household, n.e.c. 143.1 0.762
Main earner: to 24 years 0.3 0.915
Main earner: 25 to 44 years 43.1 0.760
Main earner: 45 to 64 years 216.8 0.699
Main earner: 65 years or older 263.9 0.648
Main earner: Dutch background . .
Main earner: western background . .
Main earner: non-western background . .
Source: Income as employee 122.4 0.673
Source: Income as self-employed (total) 300.0 0.744
Source: Transfer income 111.6 0.722
Source: Income insurance benefit 229.7 0.674
Source: Unemployment benefit 14.9 0.763
Source: Sickness/Disability benefit 9.0 0.776
Source: Old-age/survivors pension 270.5 0.654
Source: Social provisions benefit 1.0 0.936
Source: Student grant 0.2 0.887
Home ownership: Owner-occupied home 334.6 0.553
Home ownership: Rent 4.2 0.882
Home ownership: Rent: no rent subsidy 7.4 0.870
Home ownership: Rent with rent subsidy 2.5 0.794
Equivalised income: 1st 10%-group 1.5 0.939
Equivalised income: 2nd 10%-group 4.7 0.871
Equivalised income: 3rd 10%-group 17.0 0.787
Equivalised income: 4th 10%-group 48.1 0.697
Equivalised income: 5th 10%-group 134.3 0.637
Equivalised income: 6th 10%-group 187.9 0.590
Equivalised income: 7th 10%-group 228.2 0.552
Equivalised income: 8th 10%-group 259.0 0.545
Equivalised income: 9th 10%-group 315.1 0.534
Equivalised income: 10th 10%-group 520.2 0.658
Source: CBS.
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Table explanation


This table aims to show the distribution of welfare of private households, measured by their income, expenditures and wealth.
The figures in this table are broken down to different household characteristics.

The population consists of all private households with income on January 1st of the reporting year.
In the population for the subject low-income households, both student households and households with income only for a part of the year have been excluded.

New figures on poverty are based on a new method of measurement. The figures on low income will not be updated from 2024.

Data available from: 2011

Status of the figures:
The figures for 2011 to 2023 are final. The figures for 2024 are preliminary.

Changes as of 8 October 2025:
Figures for 2023 are finalized. Preliminary figures for 2024 are added.

Changes as of 9 February 2022:
The preliminary figures for 2020 concerning ‘Mean expenditures’ have been added.
The topic 'Mean expenditures' only contains 5-annual data, for 2015 and 2020. The data for 2015 for this topic were still preliminary and are now final.

When will new figures be published?
New figures will be published in the fall of 2026.

Description topics

Median wealth
Ranking households according to their wealth, the median is equal to the wealth of the central household. Half of the households possess more wealth, the other half has less.

Wealth equals assets minus debts. Assets are financial assets (bank and saving credits and securities), real estate and enterprise capital. Debts are amongst other things mortgage debt and consumptive loans.

Wealth inequality
The Gini coefficient is a common measure for inequality. The value of the Gini coefficient varies between 0 (everyone has the same income) and 1 (one household has all the income, the others have none).
The Gini coefficient is calculated as the half of the mean wealth difference between households, divided by the mean wealth. In case of negative wealth, the Gini coefficient is normalized.