Income distribution of households; National Accounts
Characteristics of households | Periods | Total amount Uses Social contributions and benefits Net social contributions Households' social contrib. supplements (million euros) | Average amount Uses Social contributions and benefits Net social contributions Households' social contrib. supplements (1,000 euro) | Standardised amount Uses Social contributions and benefits Net social contributions Households' social contrib. supplements (1,000 euro) | Share in adjusted disposable income Uses Social contributions and benefits Net social contributions Households' social contrib. supplements (%) |
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Total | 2021* | 33,552 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 5.6 |
Disposable income: 1st 20%-group | 2021* | 2,395 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 4.3 |
Disposable income: 2nd 20%-group | 2021* | 3,470 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 4.0 |
Disposable income: 3rd 20%-group | 2021* | 6,178 | 3.7 | 2.4 | 5.6 |
Disposable income: 4th 20%-group | 2021* | 8,862 | 5.3 | 3.3 | 6.5 |
Disposable income: 5th 20%-group | 2021* | 12,647 | 7.6 | 4.7 | 6.1 |
Type: Single man | 2021* | 3,070 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 5.2 |
Type: Single woman | 2021* | 3,617 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 5.7 |
Type: One-parent family | 2021* | 1,343 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 3.4 |
Type: Couple, with child(ren) | 2021* | 9,592 | 4.9 | 2.2 | 4.1 |
Type: Couple, no children | 2021* | 15,019 | 6.7 | 4.5 | 8.9 |
Other types of households | 2021* | 911 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 2.9 |
Source of income: mixed income | 2021* | 2,982 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 3.3 |
Source of income: compensation of employ | 2021* | 18,040 | 4.3 | 2.6 | 5.3 |
Source of income: old age benefits | 2021* | 11,223 | 5.2 | 4.2 | 9.2 |
Source of income: other | 2021* | 1,307 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 3.2 |
Main earner: to 35 years | 2021* | 740 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
Main earner: 35 to 50 years | 2021* | 5,150 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 3.0 |
Main earner: 50 to 65 years | 2021* | 15,457 | 6.7 | 4.2 | 8.1 |
Main earner: 65 years or older | 2021* | 12,205 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 8.6 |
Home ownership: Owner-occupied home | 2021* | 27,857 | 6.2 | 3.8 | 6.8 |
Home ownership: Rent with rent subsidy | 2021* | 1,074 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.7 |
Home ownership: Rent: no rent subsidy | 2021* | 4,440 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 4.0 |
Home ownership: Other | 2021* | 181 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.4 |
Net worth: 1st 20%-group | 2021* | 250 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
Net worth: 2nd 20%-group | 2021* | 1,549 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.8 |
Net worth: 3rd 20%-group | 2021* | 4,083 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 3.5 |
Net worth: 4th 20%-group | 2021* | 7,705 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 5.5 |
Net worth: 5th 20%-group | 2021* | 19,965 | 12.0 | 7.0 | 10.5 |
Source: CBS. |
Dataset is not available.
This table describes the income distribution of the sector households in the national accounts over different household groups. Households are identified by main source of income, living situation, household composition, age classes of the head of the household, income class by 20% groups, and net worth class by 20% groups.
Data available from: 2015.
Status of the figures:
All data are provisional.
Changes as of October 19th 2023:
The figures of 2015-2020 are revised, because national accounts figures are changed due to the revision policy of Statistics Netherlands. Results for 2021 are added to the table.
When will new figures be published?
New figures will be released in October 2024.
Description topics
- Total amount
- Uses
- Uses are transactions appear which deduces the economic value of sectors.
- Social contributions and benefits
- Social contributions and benefits are transfers to households, in cash or in kind, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, made through collectively organized schemes, or outside such schemes by government units and NPISHs; they include payments from general government to producers which individually benefit households and which are made in the context of social risks or needs.
Social benefits are transfers to households, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, such as sickness, invalidity, disability, old age, survivors and unemployment.- Net social contributions
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Actually, the employers' part is paid directly to the insurers. However, in the national accounts, the employers' contributions are supposed to be part of primary income of households (i.e. the income from direct participation in the production process). Therefore, in first instance these contributions are treated as payments by employers to households as compensation of employees, who are deemed to pay them to the insurers in the income account.
- Households' social contrib. supplements
- Households' social contribution supplements consist of the property income earned during the accounting period on the stock of pension and non-pension entitlements.
- Average amount
- Amount per household.
- Uses
- Uses are transactions appear which deduces the economic value of sectors.
- Social contributions and benefits
- Social contributions and benefits are transfers to households, in cash or in kind, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, made through collectively organized schemes, or outside such schemes by government units and NPISHs; they include payments from general government to producers which individually benefit households and which are made in the context of social risks or needs.
Social benefits are transfers to households, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, such as sickness, invalidity, disability, old age, survivors and unemployment.- Net social contributions
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Actually, the employers' part is paid directly to the insurers. However, in the national accounts, the employers' contributions are supposed to be part of primary income of households (i.e. the income from direct participation in the production process). Therefore, in first instance these contributions are treated as payments by employers to households as compensation of employees, who are deemed to pay them to the insurers in the income account.
- Households' social contrib. supplements
- Households' social contribution supplements consist of the property income earned during the accounting period on the stock of pension and non-pension entitlements.
- Standardised amount
- Amount per household converted to a single-person household.
- Uses
- Uses are transactions appear which deduces the economic value of sectors.
- Social contributions and benefits
- Social contributions and benefits are transfers to households, in cash or in kind, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, made through collectively organized schemes, or outside such schemes by government units and NPISHs; they include payments from general government to producers which individually benefit households and which are made in the context of social risks or needs.
Social benefits are transfers to households, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, such as sickness, invalidity, disability, old age, survivors and unemployment.- Net social contributions
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Actually, the employers' part is paid directly to the insurers. However, in the national accounts, the employers' contributions are supposed to be part of primary income of households (i.e. the income from direct participation in the production process). Therefore, in first instance these contributions are treated as payments by employers to households as compensation of employees, who are deemed to pay them to the insurers in the income account.
- Households' social contrib. supplements
- Households' social contribution supplements consist of the property income earned during the accounting period on the stock of pension and non-pension entitlements.
- Share in adjusted disposable income
- Percentage in gross adjusted disposable income
- Uses
- Uses are transactions appear which deduces the economic value of sectors.
- Social contributions and benefits
- Social contributions and benefits are transfers to households, in cash or in kind, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, made through collectively organized schemes, or outside such schemes by government units and NPISHs; they include payments from general government to producers which individually benefit households and which are made in the context of social risks or needs.
Social benefits are transfers to households, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, such as sickness, invalidity, disability, old age, survivors and unemployment.- Net social contributions
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Actually, the employers' part is paid directly to the insurers. However, in the national accounts, the employers' contributions are supposed to be part of primary income of households (i.e. the income from direct participation in the production process). Therefore, in first instance these contributions are treated as payments by employers to households as compensation of employees, who are deemed to pay them to the insurers in the income account.
- Households' social contrib. supplements
- Households' social contribution supplements consist of the property income earned during the accounting period on the stock of pension and non-pension entitlements.