Life style; personal characteristics
| Characteristics | Margins | Periods | Smoking behaviour, 12 years or older Smokers Daily smokers in the population (%) | Smoking behaviour, 12 years or older Smokers Heavy smokers in the population (%) | Alcohol consumption, 12 years or older Drinkers Heavy drinkers in the population (%) | Alcohol consumption, 12 years or older Drinkers Excessive drinkers in the population (%) | Alcohol consumption, 12 years or older Up to 1 glass per day in the population (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total persons | Value | 2023 | 12.6 | 2.5 | 7.7 | 6.3 | 47.0 |
| Total persons | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 11.9 | 2.1 | 7.1 | 5.8 | 45.9 |
| Total persons | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 13.4 | 2.9 | 8.3 | 6.9 | 48.1 |
| Sex: Male | Value | 2023 | 14.8 | 2.9 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 38.7 |
| Sex: Male | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 13.7 | 2.4 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 37.1 |
| Sex: Male | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 16.1 | 3.5 | 9.1 | 8.8 | 40.2 |
| Sex: Female | Value | 2023 | 10.5 | 2.0 | 7.2 | 4.8 | 55.1 |
| Sex: Female | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 9.6 | 1.6 | 6.4 | 4.2 | 53.6 |
| Sex: Female | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 11.5 | 2.6 | 8.0 | 5.5 | 56.6 |
| Age: 0 to 3 years | Value | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Age: 0 to 3 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Age: 0 to 3 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Age: 4 to 11 years | Value | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Age: 4 to 11 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Age: 4 to 11 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Age: 12 to 15 years | Value | 2023 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 93.6 |
| Age: 12 to 15 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 91.1 |
| Age: 12 to 15 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 1.7 | . | 2.4 | 1.1 | 95.5 |
| Age: 16 to 19 years | Value | 2023 | 7.8 | 1.2 | 17.0 | 9.2 | 45.5 |
| Age: 16 to 19 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 5.6 | 0.5 | 13.8 | 6.8 | 40.8 |
| Age: 16 to 19 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 10.8 | 2.9 | 20.9 | 12.3 | 50.3 |
| Age: 20 to 29 years | Value | 2023 | 15.8 | 1.7 | 14.2 | 9.2 | 30.6 |
| Age: 20 to 29 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 13.6 | 1.0 | 12.1 | 7.5 | 27.8 |
| Age: 20 to 29 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 18.3 | 2.8 | 16.5 | 11.2 | 33.6 |
| Age: 30 to 39 years | Value | 2023 | 16.3 | 3.1 | 7.2 | 4.3 | 39.0 |
| Age: 30 to 39 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 14.0 | 2.2 | 5.8 | 3.2 | 36.0 |
| Age: 30 to 39 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 18.8 | 4.4 | 8.9 | 5.7 | 42.0 |
| Age: 40 to 49 years | Value | 2023 | 15.3 | 4.3 | 8.4 | 5.9 | 44.5 |
| Age: 40 to 49 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 13.1 | 3.1 | 6.8 | 4.6 | 41.4 |
| Age: 40 to 49 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 17.8 | 6.0 | 10.3 | 7.6 | 47.6 |
| Age: 50 to 54 years | Value | 2023 | 15.4 | 2.3 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 44.5 |
| Age: 50 to 54 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 12.6 | 1.3 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 40.5 |
| Age: 50 to 54 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 18.5 | 3.8 | 6.7 | 7.4 | 48.5 |
| Age: 55 to 64 years | Value | 2023 | 13.2 | 3.6 | 6.1 | 7.0 | 47.1 |
| Age: 55 to 64 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 11.4 | 2.7 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 44.4 |
| Age: 55 to 64 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 15.2 | 4.8 | 7.6 | 8.5 | 49.8 |
| Age: 65 to 74 years | Value | 2023 | 12.0 | 2.2 | 6.4 | 8.4 | 48.3 |
| Age: 65 to 74 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 10.2 | 1.5 | 5.1 | 7.0 | 45.5 |
| Age: 65 to 74 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 14.0 | 3.3 | 7.9 | 10.2 | 51.2 |
| Age: 75 years or older | Value | 2023 | 5.4 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 4.0 | 63.9 |
| Age: 75 years or older | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 4.1 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 60.8 |
| Age: 75 years or older | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 7.1 | 1.5 | 3.6 | 5.4 | 66.9 |
| Age: 0 to 11 years | Value | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Age: 0 to 11 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Age: 0 to 11 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Age: 12 to 17 years | Value | 2023 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 4.7 | 2.0 | 81.0 |
| Age: 12 to 17 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 3.3 | 1.1 | 77.8 |
| Age: 12 to 17 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 3.8 | 1.4 | 6.6 | 3.4 | 83.8 |
| Age: 18 years or older | Value | 2023 | 13.5 | 2.7 | 7.9 | 6.7 | 44.0 |
| Age: 18 years or older | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 12.7 | 2.3 | 7.3 | 6.1 | 42.9 |
| Age: 18 years or older | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 14.4 | 3.1 | 8.6 | 7.3 | 45.2 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Value | 2023 | 11.5 | 2.3 | 8.8 | 6.9 | 42.0 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 10.7 | 2.0 | 8.1 | 6.3 | 40.8 |
| Origin country: The Netherlands | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 12.3 | 2.8 | 9.5 | 7.6 | 43.2 |
| Origin country: Europe (excl. NL) | Value | 2023 | 17.2 | 3.8 | 6.1 | 6.7 | 49.7 |
| Origin country: Europe (excl. NL) | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 14.1 | 2.4 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 45.6 |
| Origin country: Europe (excl. NL) | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 20.7 | 5.9 | 8.5 | 9.1 | 53.8 |
| Origin country: outside Europe | Value | 2023 | 15.2 | 2.4 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 65.6 |
| Origin country: outside Europe | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 13.1 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 62.7 |
| Origin country: outside Europe | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 17.5 | 3.6 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 68.3 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Value | 2023 | 11.8 | 2.4 | 8.4 | 6.7 | 43.6 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 11.0 | 2.1 | 7.8 | 6.1 | 42.4 |
| Origin: born in the Netherlands | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 12.6 | 2.8 | 9.1 | 7.3 | 44.7 |
| Origin: born in NL, parents in NL | Value | 2023 | 11.5 | 2.3 | 8.8 | 6.9 | 42.0 |
| Origin: born in NL, parents in NL | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 10.7 | 2.0 | 8.1 | 6.3 | 40.8 |
| Origin: born in NL, parents in NL | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 12.3 | 2.8 | 9.5 | 7.6 | 43.2 |
| Origin: born in NL, parent(s) abroad | Value | 2023 | 13.7 | 3.0 | 6.4 | 5.3 | 53.8 |
| Origin: born in NL, parent(s) abroad | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 11.4 | 2.0 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 50.3 |
| Origin: born in NL, parent(s) abroad | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 16.5 | 4.5 | 8.4 | 7.2 | 57.3 |
| Origin: born in NL, parent(s) in Europe | Value | 2023 | 13.0 | 3.6 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 46.7 |
| Origin: born in NL, parent(s) in Europe | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 9.3 | 2.0 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 40.8 |
| Origin: born in NL, parent(s) in Europe | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 17.9 | 6.7 | 12.8 | 13.0 | 52.7 |
| Origin: born NL, parent(s) out. Europe | Value | 2023 | 14.0 | 2.7 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 57.2 |
| Origin: born NL, parent(s) out. Europe | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 11.2 | 1.6 | 3.7 | 2.4 | 52.8 |
| Origin: born NL, parent(s) out. Europe | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 17.5 | 4.7 | 7.8 | 5.8 | 61.5 |
| Origin: born abroad | Value | 2023 | 17.4 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 65.8 |
| Origin: born abroad | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 14.9 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 62.7 |
| Origin: born abroad | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 20.1 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 68.9 |
| Origin: born in Europe (excl. NL) | Value | 2023 | 20.5 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 52.1 |
| Origin: born in Europe (excl. NL) | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 16.1 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 46.4 |
| Origin: born in Europe (excl. NL) | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 25.7 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 8.2 | 57.7 |
| Origin: born outside Europe | Value | 2023 | 16.0 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 71.8 |
| Origin: born outside Europe | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 13.1 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 68.0 |
| Origin: born outside Europe | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 19.4 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 75.2 |
| Position: single; < 40 year | Value | 2023 | 19.3 | 2.8 | 16.7 | 10.7 | 25.7 |
| Position: single; < 40 year | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 15.8 | 1.6 | 13.5 | 8.1 | 21.9 |
| Position: single; < 40 year | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 23.3 | 5.0 | 20.3 | 13.9 | 30.0 |
| Position: single; 40 to 64 years | Value | 2023 | 25.6 | 7.3 | 8.5 | 9.2 | 47.8 |
| Position: single; 40 to 64 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 21.7 | 5.2 | 6.3 | 6.9 | 43.2 |
| Position: single; 40 to 64 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 29.9 | 10.1 | 11.4 | 12.2 | 52.5 |
| Position: single; >= 65 years | Value | 2023 | 12.5 | 1.5 | 4.6 | 6.5 | 61.7 |
| Position: single; >= 65 years | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 10.1 | 0.8 | 3.2 | 4.9 | 57.8 |
| Position: single; >= 65 years | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 15.4 | 3.0 | 6.5 | 8.7 | 65.4 |
| Position: child<18 yrs one-parent | Value | 2023 | 5.2 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 80.0 |
| Position: child<18 yrs one-parent | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 71.0 |
| Position: child<18 yrs one-parent | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | 12.0 | . | 11.1 | . | 86.8 |
| Positon: child of age, one-parent househ | Value | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Positon: child of age, one-parent househ | Lower bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Positon: child of age, one-parent househ | Upper bound 95% confidence interval | 2023 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Position: child < 18 yrs, two-parents | Value | 2023 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 4.1 | 2.0 | 81.5 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||
Dataset is not available.
This table contains data on life style of the Dutch population in private households. These data can be grouped by several personal characteristics.
Data available from: 2014.
Status of the data: final.
Changes by March 14, 2024:
Data about 2023 have been added.
Figures about laughing gas have been added. The questions about nutrition have changed in 2023.
That is why a new series for nutrition will be started in 2023 and the old series of figures on nutrition (2014-2022) will no longer be added.
When will new data be published?
Data on reporting year 2024 will be published in the second quarter of 2025
Description topics
- Smoking behaviour, 12 years or older
- Questions on smoking behaviour are asked to persons aged 12 years or older.
- Smokers
- The percentage of persons in the population aged 12 years or older who answered ‘Yes’ to the question: ‘Do you smoke?’.
From 2014 to 2017, the introductory text for this question was: ‘Now some questions about smoking.’ From 2018 to 2019 this text was changed in: ‘Now some questions about smoking. We mean smoking of all kinds of tobacco products here, but not the use of an electronic cigarette.’ From 2020 this introduction text was replaced by ‘Now some questions about smoking. We mean smoking of all kinds of tobacco products here, but not the use of an electronic cigarette or a device in which tobacco is heated (heat stick, heat-not-burn), such as the IQOS’.- Daily smokers in the population
- The percentage of persons in the population aged 12 years or older who answered Yes’ to the question ‘Do you smoke every day?
- Heavy smokers in the population
- The percentage of persons in the population aged 12 years or older who smoke 20 or more cigarettes per day. Persons who only smoke cigars and/or pipe are not considered to be heavy smokers.
- Alcohol consumption, 12 years or older
- The questions on consuming alcohol are asked to all persons aged 12 years or older.
- Drinkers
- Heavy drinkers in the population
- The percentage of persons in the population aged 12 years or older who at least once a week drink 6 or more alcoholic beverages in one day (men) or who at least once a week drink 4 or more of alcoholic beverages in one day (women).
- Excessive drinkers in the population
- The percentage of persons in the population aged 12 years or older who drink at least 21 glasses a week (men) or 14 glasses a week (women).
- Up to 1 glass per day in the population
- Percentage of persons in the population aged 12 years or older who do not drink or at most 1 glass per day.