Health expenditure; functions and financing

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Functions Health care expenditure (mln euro)
Health expenditure for residents 13,569
HC1: Services of curative care 6,502
HC11: In-patient curative care 881
HC12: Day cases of curative care 211
HC13: Outpatient curative care 5,373
HC13.1: General outpatient curative care 82
HC13.2: Outpatient dental care 585
HC13.3: Spec. outpatient curative care 2,560
HC13.9: Other outpatient curative care 2,146
HC14: Services of curative home care 36
HC.2:Services of rehabilitative care 643
HC21: In-patient rehabilitative care 32
HC22: Day cases of rehabilitative care 0
HC23: Out-patient rehabilitative care 611
HC3: Services of long-term nursing care 2,026
HC31: In-patient long-term nursing care 1,902
HC32: Day cases long-term nursing care 12
HC33: Outpatient long-term care (health) 9
HC34: Long-term nursing care: home care 102
HC4: Ancillary services 55
HC41: Laboratory services 5
HC42: Imaging diagnosis 0
HC43: Patient transport 50
HC5: Medical goods 3,727
HC51: Pharmaceuticals, other nondurables 2,220
HC52: Therapeutic appliances 1,506
HC6: Preventive care 576
HC7: Governance, health system, fin. 0
HC71: Governance, health system adm. 0
HC72: Administration of health financing 0
HC9: Healthcare n.e.c. 41
Total health related expenditure 427
HCR1: Long-term care (social) 427
HCR11:In-kind long-term social care 424
HCR12: Long-term soc. care cash benefits 3
HCR2: Health promotion multi-sector 0
Source: CBS.
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Table explanation


This table presents health(care) expenditure used by residents of the Netherlands in a year. Health care is delineated according to the international definition of the System of Health Accounts. The figures are thus internationally comparable with Eurostat, OECD and WHO publications. All healthcare activities count, regardless of whether they take place inside or outside the healthcare sector.
The figures are derived from the care accounts, which include more activities such as youth care, welfare work, social services and child care. The care accounts also include exports (expenditure on and by non-residents).

Data available from: 2021

Status of the figures:
The figures for 2024 are revised provisional. The figures for 2022 and 2023 are revised provisional. The figures for 2021 are final.

Changes as of 8 October 2025:
The figures for 2021–2024 have been partly adjusted, based on the most up-to-date data from various sources, including data from the National Health Care Institute and the CBS business and economic statistics on health care.

When will new figures be published?
In spring 2026, provisional figures for 2025 and revised figures for 2022–2023 will be published.

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Health care expenditure
Final consumption expenditure in current prices on health care goods and services used by or for residents in one year.