Health and welfare

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  1. Childcare benefit continued to rise in 2025
  2. Higher risk of drowning among children born outside the Netherlands
  3. Spending on health care up by 6.1 percent in 2025
  4. 1,758 suicides in 2025, an average of nearly 5 per day
  5. Fewer young people exposed to secondary smoking
  6. Dutch population is wealthy and content, but less socially connected
  7. 100 people drowned in 2025, mainly aged 60 or over
  8. Fewer young people receiving youth care in 2025
  9. Government revenue from tobacco duty falls by 15 percent
  10. More road traffic deaths in 2025