Health expenditure: national and international figures compared; providers

Health expenditure: national and international figures compared; providers

Functions Providers Periods Care expenditure (mln euro)
Exports and R&D foreign financed Total health and social care providers 2022* 252
Exports and R&D foreign financed Total health care providers 2022* 252
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP1: Hospitals 2022* 166
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP11: General and university hospitals 2022* 166
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP12: Mental health institutions, 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP13: Specialised hospitals 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP2: Nursing and residential care facil. 2022* 11
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP21: Nursing care facilities 2022* 11
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP22-29: Facilities for the disabled 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP3: Providers of ambulatory health care 2022* 15
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP31: Medical practices 2022* 9
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP32: Dental practices 2022* 4
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP34: Ambulatory health care centres 2022* 2
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP33 : Other health care practitioners 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP4: Providers of ancillary services 2022* 1
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP41: Patient transportation, emergency 2022* 1
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP42-49: Laboratories, other anc. serv. 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP5: Retailers of medical goods 2022* 7
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP51: Pharmacies 2022* 7
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP52-59 : Suppl. med. appliances, other 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP6: Providers of preventive care 2022* 6
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP7: Healthcare adm. and financ. 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP71: Government health administration 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP72: Social health insurance agencies 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP73: Providers of health insurance 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP79: Other administration agencies 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP8: Rest of economy 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP81: Households prov. home health care 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP82: Secondary providers of health care 2022* 0
Exports and R&D foreign financed HP9: Rest of the world 2022* 45
Exports and R&D foreign financed Welfare, children's day care 2022* 0
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

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This table shows how health(care) expenditure according to the international definition and care expenditure in the broad sense used by Statistics Netherlands are related. Financing has been chosen as the starting point.
Healthcare is delineated according to the international definition of the System of Health Accounts. All healthcare activities count, regardless of whether they take place inside or outside the healthcare sector. Only resident health expenditure counts.
Care spending in the broad sense covers all care activities, including welfare and childcare, regardless of whether these activities take place as a main or secondary activity. Care can be for residents or non-residents. Care provided in the Netherlands for non-residents (such as tourists) is included in the export of services.

In brief:
Care expenditure in the broad sense
-/- health-related expenditure, such as domestic care within care for the elderly
-/- expenditure on other care and welfare, such as childcare
-/- expenditure on education, research and development, other services
-/- export, foreign-paid activities
= Total current expenditure on health

Data available from: 1998

Status of figures:
Figures for 2022 are provisional; figures for 2020 and 2021 are revised provisional; other figures are final.

Changes as of 21 July 2023:
The figures on 2020 have been updated.

When will there be new figures?
Updated figures for 2020-2022 and provisional figures for 2023 will be published in the second quarter of 2024.

Description topics

Care expenditure
Final consumption expenditure in current prices on care goods and services used by or for residents in one year; care includes healthcare, social care, youth care, child care.