Financial balance sheets and transactions by sectors; National Accounts
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This table presents financial transactions, other changes in assets and financial balance sheets of the sectors of the Dutch economy. It enables insight in many financial aspects in the Netherlands. Such as the magnitude of the debt of the government, the mortgage debt of households, the assets of investment funds in shares, the loans lent by financial corporations. Sectors are presented both consolidated and non-consolidated in this table.
Data available from:
Annual figures from 1995.
Quarterly figures from first quarter 1999.
Status of the figures:
The figures from 1995 up to and including 2020 are final. Data of 2021, 2022 and 2023 are provisional.
Changes as of March 25th, 2024:
Data on the fourth quarter of 2023 and the year 2023 have been added.
When will new figures be published?
Annual figures:
The first annual data are published 85 day after the end of the reporting year as the sum of the four quarters of the year. Subsequently 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. Furthermore the financial accounts and stocks are annually revised for all reporting periods. These data are published each year in June.
Quarterly figures: The first quarterly estimate is available 85 days after the end of each reporting quarter. The first quarter may be revised in September, the second quarter in December. Should further quarterly information become available thereafter, the estimates for the first three quarters may be revised in March. If (new) annual figures become available in June, the quarterly figures will be revised again to bring them in line with the annual figures.
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
- Assets
- Monetary gold and special drawing rights
- The monetary gold and special drawing rights category consists of two subcategories:
- monetary gold
- special drawing rights- Total
- Monetary gold
- Monetary gold includes all gold, which is not intended for industrial purposes and not held in the form of valuables. Monetary gold can only be held by the Dutch Central Bank (DNB).
- Special drawing rights (SDRs)
- SDRs are international reserve assets created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and which are allocated to its members to supplement existing reserve assets. This transaction only exists for DNB.
- Insurance and pension schemes
- Insurance, pension and standardised guarantee schemes are divided into six subcategories:
- non-life insurance technical reserves
- life insurance and annuity entitlements
- pension entitlements
- claims of pension funds on pension managers
- entitlements to non-pension benefits
- provisions for calls under standardised guarantees- Total
- Insurance, pension and standardised guarantee schemes are divided into six subcategories:
- non-life insurance technical reserves
- life insurance and annuity entitlements
- pension entitlements
- claims of pension funds on pension managers
- entitlements to non-pension benefits
- provisions for calls under standardised guarantees
- Non-life insurance technical reserves
- Non-life insurance technical reserves are financial claims that non-life insurance policy holders have against non-life insurance corporations in respect of unearned premiums and claims incurred.
- Life insurance and annuity entitlements
- Life insurance and annuity entitlements consist of financial claims that life insurance policy holders and beneficiaries of annuities have against corporations providing life insurance.
- Pension entitlements and claims
- Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee
c) an insurer.
Other claims concern claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.- Total
- Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee
c) an insurer.
Other claims concern claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.
- Pension entitlements
- Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee;
c) an insurer.
- Other claims
- Other entitlements and claims consist of claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.
- Claims on pension managers
- An employer may contract with a third party to look after the pension funds for his employees. If the employer continues to determine the terms of the pension schemes and retains the responsibility for any deficit in funding as well as the right to retain any excess funding, the employer is described as the pension manager and the unit working under the direction of the pension manger is described as the pension administrator. If the agreement between the employer and the third party is such that the employer passes the risks and responsibilities for any deficit in funding to the third part in return for the right of the third party to retain any excess, the third party becomes the pension manager as well as the administrator.
- Rights on non-pension entitlements
- In the Netherlands, this includes rights on early retirement arrangements. These rights are part of a transition scheme for early retirement committed by many employers to their employees in 2006 and 2007 after the general early retirement arrangement ended. Contributions to this arrangement are part of social premiums of employers (and employees). However, due to the conditional aspects of the rights, the rights are classified as non-pension entitlements.
- Provisions for calls under guarantees
- Provisions for calls under standardised guarantees are financial claims that holders of standardised guarantees have against institutional units providing them. Provisions relating to calls under standardised guarantees are prepayments of net fees and provisions to meet outstanding calls under standardised guarantees. Like provisions for prepaid insurance premiums and reserves, provisions for calls under standardised guarantees include unearned fees (premiums) and calls (claims) not yet settled. Standardised guarantees are guarantees that are issued in large numbers, usually for fairly small amounts, along identical lines. Such arrangements involve three parties: the borrower, the lender and the guarantor. Either the borrower or the lender may contract with the guarantor to repay the lender if the borrower defaults. Examples are export credit guarantees and student loan guarantees.
- Liabilities
- Monetary gold and special drawing rights
- The monetary gold and special drawing rights category consists of two subcategories:
- monetary gold
- special drawing rights- Total
- Monetary gold
- Monetary gold includes all gold, which is not intended for industrial purposes and not held in the form of valuables. Monetary gold can only be held by the Dutch Central Bank (DNB).
- Special drawing rights (SDRs)
- Special drawing rights (SDRs) are international reserve assets created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and which are allocated to its members to supplement existing reserve assets.
- Insurance, pension and guarantee schemes
- Insurance, pension and standardised guarantee schemes are divided into six subcategories:
- non-life insurance technical reserves
- life insurance and annuity entitlements
- pension entitlements
- claims of pension funds on pension managers
- entitlements to non-pension benefits
- provisions for calls under standardised guarantees- Total
- Insurance, pension and standardised guarantee schemes are divided into six subcategories:
- non-life insurance technical reserves
- life insurance and annuity entitlements
- pension entitlements
- claims of pension funds on pension managers
- entitlements to non-pension benefits
- provisions for calls under standardised guarantees
- Non-life insurance technical reserves
- Non-life insurance technical reserves are financial claims that non-life insurance policy holders have against non-life insurance corporations in respect of unearned premiums and claims incurred.
- Life insurance and annuity entitlements
- Life insurance and annuity entitlements consist of financial claims that life insurance policy holders and beneficiaries of annuities have against corporations providing life insurance.
- Pension entitlements and claims
- Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee
c) an insurer.
Other claims concern claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.- Total
- Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee
c) an insurer.
Other claims concern claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.
- Pension entitlements
- Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee;
c) an insurer.
- Other claims
- Other entitlements and claims consist of claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.
- Claims on pension managers
- An employer may contract with a third party to look after the pension funds for his employees. If the employer continues to determine the terms of the pension schemes and retains the responsibility for any deficit in funding as well as the right to retain any excess funding, the employer is described as the pension manager and the unit working under the direction of the pension manger is described as the pension administrator. If the agreement between the employer and the third party is such that the employer passes the risks and responsibilities for any deficit in funding to the third part in return for the right of the third party to retain any excess, the third party becomes the pension manager as well as the administrator.
- Rights on non-pension entitlements
- In the Netherlands, this includes rights on early retirement arrangements. These rights are part of a transition scheme for early retirement committed by many employers to their employees in 2006 and 2007 after the general early retirement arrangement ended. Contributions to this arrangement are part of social premiums of employers (and employees). However, due to the conditional aspects of the rights, the rights are classified as non-pension entitlements.
- Provisions for calls under guarantees
- Provisions for calls under standardised guarantees are financial claims that holders of standardised guarantees have against institutional units providing them. Provisions relating to calls under standardised guarantees are prepayments of net fees and provisions to meet outstanding calls under standardised guarantees. Like provisions for prepaid insurance premiums and reserves, provisions for calls under standardised guarantees include unearned fees (premiums) and calls (claims) not yet settled. Standardised guarantees are guarantees that are issued in large numbers, usually for fairly small amounts, along identical lines. Such arrangements involve three parties: the borrower, the lender and the guarantor. Either the borrower or the lender may contract with the guarantor to repay the lender if the borrower defaults. Examples are export credit guarantees and student loan guarantees.