Welfare of households; key figures
| Household characteristics | Periods | Median wealth (1 000 euro) | Wealth inequality (Gini coefficient) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private households | 2022* | 135.1 | 0.711 |
| Type: Single person household | 2022* | 17.8 | 0.785 |
| Type: Multi-person household | 2022* | 217.9 | 0.659 |
| Type: One-parent family | 2022* | 16.4 | 0.787 |
| Type: Couple, total | 2022* | 244.0 | 0.638 |
| Type: Couple, no children | 2022* | 251.8 | 0.642 |
| Type: Couple, with child(ren) | 2022* | 237.4 | 0.632 |
| Type: Multi-person household, n.e.c. | 2022* | 137.8 | 0.737 |
| Main earner: to 24 years | 2022* | 0.0 | 0.894 |
| Main earner: 25 to 44 years | 2022* | 58.9 | 0.732 |
| Main earner: 45 to 64 years | 2022* | 209.6 | 0.679 |
| Main earner: 65 years or older | 2022* | 245.5 | 0.652 |
| Main earner: Dutch background | 2022* | . | . |
| Main earner: western background | 2022* | . | . |
| Main earner: non-western background | 2022* | . | . |
| Source: Income as employee | 2022* | 125.4 | 0.661 |
| Source: Income as self-employed (total) | 2022* | 306.3 | 0.716 |
| Source: Transfer income | 2022* | 97.5 | 0.715 |
| Source: Income insurance benefit | 2022* | 210.8 | 0.670 |
| Source: Unemployment benefit | 2022* | 38.4 | 0.720 |
| Source: Sickness/Disability benefit | 2022* | 6.9 | 0.784 |
| Source: Old-age/survivors pension | 2022* | 250.8 | 0.651 |
| Source: Social provisions benefit | 2022* | 0.8 | 0.926 |
| Source: Student grant | 2022* | -1.7 | 0.878 |
| Home ownership: Owner-occupied home | 2022* | 321.8 | 0.532 |
| Home ownership: Rent | 2022* | 3.5 | 0.881 |
| Home ownership: Rent: no rent subsidy | 2022* | 7.2 | 0.864 |
| Home ownership: Rent with rent subsidy | 2022* | 1.7 | 0.812 |
| Equivalised income: 1st 10%-group | 2022* | 1.0 | 0.932 |
| Equivalised income: 2nd 10%-group | 2022* | 3.0 | 0.881 |
| Equivalised income: 3rd 10%-group | 2022* | 13.6 | 0.800 |
| Equivalised income: 4th 10%-group | 2022* | 66.5 | 0.677 |
| Equivalised income: 5th 10%-group | 2022* | 143.1 | 0.620 |
| Equivalised income: 6th 10%-group | 2022* | 185.1 | 0.574 |
| Equivalised income: 7th 10%-group | 2022* | 223.3 | 0.542 |
| Equivalised income: 8th 10%-group | 2022* | 255.9 | 0.534 |
| Equivalised income: 9th 10%-group | 2022* | 309.3 | 0.531 |
| Equivalised income: 10th 10%-group | 2022* | 498.3 | 0.629 |
| Source: CBS. | |||
Dataset is not available.
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.
Data available from: 2011
Status of the figures:
The figures for 2011 to 2021 are final. The figures for 2022 are preliminary.
Changes as of 8 November 2023:
Figures for 2021 are finalized. Preliminary figures for 2022 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 2024.
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.