Health expenditure: (inter)national compared; providers, 1998-2022

Health expenditure: (inter)national compared; providers, 1998-2022

Functions Providers Periods Health and social care expenditure (mln euro)
Exports and R&D foreign financed Total health and social care providers 2022** 253
Exports and R&D foreign financed Total health care providers 2022** 253
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** 16
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** 3
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** 46
Exports and R&D foreign financed Welfare, children's day care 2022** 0
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Table explanation


This table shows how health(care) expenditure according to the international definition and health and social care expenditure 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.
Health and social care expenditure 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:
Health and social care expenditure
-/- 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 to 2022

Status of the figures:
The figures for 2021 and 2022 are revised provisional. The figures for the other years are final. Since this table has been discontinued, provisional data will not become final.

Changes as of 10 December 2024:
This table has been discontinued. The name of the topic 'Care expenditure' has been changed to 'Health and social care expenditure'.

When will new figures be published?
Not applicable anymore. The table has been discontinued and superseded by table 'Health expenditure: national and international figures compared; providers' (see paragraph 3). The new table contains revised data. New sources and statistical techniques have been incorporated in the revised figures.

Description topics

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