Foreign controlled enterprises in The Netherlands

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Countries Financial details Value of output (mln euro)
Locus of control: domestic and foreign 1,596,674
Locus of control: domestic 1,058,241
Locus of control: foreign 538,433
Equally-shared control 168
European Union 188,049
Non EU 350,385
Locus of control: Extra EU-27 not allo.. 0
Locus of control: Offshore fin. centres .
Asia .
Afghanistan .
Albania .
Algeria 0
American-Samoa .
American Virgin Islands .
Andorra .
Angola 0
Anguilla 0
Antartica 0
Antigua and Barbuda 0
Argentina .
Armenia .
Aruba 0
Australia .
Azerbaijan .
Bahamas 0
Bhutan 0
Bahrain .
Bangladesh .
Barbados 0
Belgium 17,801
Belize .
Benin 0
Bermuda .
Bolivia 0
Bosnia and Herzegovina .
Botswana 0
Bouvet Island 0
Brazil .
British Indian Ocean Territory 0
British Virgin Islands .
Brunei 0
Bulgaria 9
Burkina Faso 0
Burundi 0
Cambodia 0
Canada .
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba 0
Cayman Islands .
Central African Republic 0
Chile 12
China 6,406
Christmas Island 0
Cocos Islands 0
Colombia .
Comoros 0
Congo 0
Congo (Democratic Republic) 0
Cook Islands 0
Costa Rica .
Cuba 0
Curaçao .
Cyprus 464
Denmark 6,694
Djibouti 0
Dominica 0
Dominican Republic .
Germany 63,433
Ecuador .
Egypt 5
El Salvador 0
Equatorial Guinea 0
Eritrea 0
Estonia 64
Eswatini 0
Ethiopia 0
Faroe Islands 0
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) .
Fiji 0
Philippines .
Finland 3,861
France 54,045
French Southern Territories 0
French Polynesia 0
Gabon 0
Gambia 0
Georgia .
Ghana .
Gibraltar .
Grenada 0
Greece 43
Greenland 0
Guam 0
Guatemala 0
Guernsey .
Guinea-Bissau 0
Guinea 0
Guyana .
Haiti 0
Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0
Honduras 0
Source: CBS.
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Table explanation


This table covers the financial data (such as operating expenses and revenues) and employment of companies in the Netherlands controlled by an institutional unit abroad. The data are consistent with Eurostat's Foreign Affiliates Statistics (FATS).

Data available from: 2021.

Status of the figures:
2021 ubntil 2023 figures are final.

As of Februari 10, 2025 the figures for R&D expenditures and R&D employees have been revised. Additionally, the unit for employed persons has been changed to thousands. Also a different method for calculating confidentiality has been applied, resulting in more data being available. This table is the successor of the table "Foreign control companies in the Netherlands; 2008-2020" which reports at a different SBI level. Data in this table can be compared, where SBI, UCI and subject match (see paragraph 3).

Changes as of September 26, 2025:
This tabel has been updated with data from 2023.

When will new figures be published?
New figures will appear in the fall of 2025.

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Financial details
Value of output
Value of output measures the quantity actually produced by the entity based on sales, changes in inventories and resales of goods and services.
Production value is defined as sales, plus or minus the changes in inventories of finished goods, work in progress and goods and services purchased for resale, minus the purchases of goods and services for resale, plus capitalized production, plus other operating income (excluding subsidies). Income and expenditure classified as financial or extraordinary in company accounts is excluded from production value.
Purchases of goods and services for resale include purchases of services purchased for resale to third parties in the same condition as received.