Structure national net lending/borrowing; National Accounts
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This table presents annual figures about the structure of national net lending or net borrowing, starting from the gross domestic product. National net lending or net borrowing is the difference between the assets of the Netherlands on the rest of the world and the liabilities of the Netherlands to the rest of the world.
National net lending or net borrowing presents the amount all sectors together in the Netherlands can lend / invest or has to borrow, given the current and capital transactions.
Data available from: 1995.
Status of the figures:
Data from 1995 up to and including 2021 are final. Data of 2022 are provisional.
Changes as of September 22nd, 2023:
Figures for 2022 have been revised as a result of updated information on the government accounts. The revisions impacted several transactions and balancing items.
When will new figures be published?
Provisional data are published 6 months after the end of the reporting year. Final data are released 18 months after the end of the reporting year. Please note that there is a possibility that adjustments might take place at the end of March or September, in order to provide the European Commission with the latest figures.
Description topics
- Net primary income from rest of world
- Received primary incomes from the rest of the world less paid primary incomes to the rest of the world.
When a residing enterprise has been active abroad for more than one year, the local kind-of-activity unit is no longer considered a resident in the Netherlands but a resident in the country in which it has become active. Vice versa, a kind-of-activity unit of foreign origin is no longer seen as a non-resident after it has been active in the Netherlands for more than one year. Resident persons who settle abroad are no longer seen as residents in the Netherlands but as residents in the country they moved to one year after they have left. Vice versa a foreigner who has settled in the Netherlands becomes a resident one year after he or see moved in. Students are an exception to this rule. They are always considered residents in the country they lived in before commencing their study.- Net primary income from rest of world
- Primary income from rest of world
- Compensation of employees, property income and (EU) subsidies received from the rest of the world.
- Total
- Compensation of employees
- Compensation of employees received from the rest of the world. This is largely due to residents in the Netherlands who have settled abroad for less than one year and work for a non-residential enterprise. This could however by an affiliate to a Dutch enterprise. After these persons have settled abroad for more than one year they become non-residents in the Netherlands and their compensation is no longer part of the flow of income from the rest of the world to the Netherlands. The compensation of cross-border workers who live in the Netherlands but work abroad remains however part of this flow.
- Property income
- Received interest, dividends, reinvested earnings on direct foreign investment and other property income from the rest of the world.
- Subsidies received from rest of world
- Subsidies received from the rest of the world, such as from the European Union.
- Primary income paid to rest of world
- Compensation of employees, property income and (EU) taxes on production and imports paid to the rest of the world.
- Total
- Compensation of employees
- Compensation of employees paid to the rest of the world. This is largely due to residents in the Netherlands who have settled abroad for less than one year and work for a non-residential enterprise. This could however by an affiliate to a Dutch enterprise. After these persons have settled abroad for more than one year they become non-residents in the Netherlands and their compensation is no longer part of the flow of income from the rest of the world to the Netherlands. The compensation of cross-border workers who live in the Netherlands but work abroad remains however part of this flow.
- Property income
- Paid interest, dividends, reinvested earnings on direct foreign investment and other property income from the rest of the world.
- Taxes on production and imports
- Taxes on production and imports paid to the rest of the world.
- Surplus nation on current transactions
- The net lending (if positive) or borrowing (if negative) of the total economy to / from the rest of the world on current transactions (trade, primary income, current transfers). The surplus of the nation on current transactions is the last item in the use of income account to the rest of the world and consists of: net exports, net primary income from the rest of the world and net current transfers from the rest of the world. The surplus of the nation on current transactions equals the net national savings less the net fixed capital formation.
- Net primary income from rest of world
- Received primary incomes from the rest of the world less paid primary incomes to the rest of the world.
When a residing enterprise has been active abroad for more than one year, the local kind-of-activity unit is no longer considered a resident in the Netherlands but a resident in the country in which it has become active. Vice versa, a kind-of-activity unit of foreign origin is no longer seen as a non-resident after it has been active in the Netherlands for more than one year. Resident persons who settle abroad are no longer seen as residents in the Netherlands but as residents in the country they moved to one year after they have left. Vice versa a foreigner who has settled in the Netherlands becomes a resident one year after he or see moved in. Students are an exception to this rule. They are always considered residents in the country they lived in before commencing their study.- Net primary income
- Primary income from rest of world
- Compensation of employees, property income and (EU) subsidies received from the rest of the world.
- Primary income paid to rest of world (-)
- Compensation of employees, property income and (EU) subsidies paid to the rest of the world.