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From March to October 2020 inclusive, altogether 12,872 people in the Netherlands died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

In 2018, the number of deaths in the Netherlands stood at 153 thousand. With nearly 47 thousand cases (30 percent), cancer was the leading cause of death, just as in previous years.

CBS became member of the IRIS Core Group, an international software system for automated encoding of causes of death.

In the first six months of 2020, there were more than 86 thousand deaths registered in the Netherlands. This is almost 9 thousand more than in the first half of 2019 and over 5 thousand more than in...

Publication of data regarding the causes of death of all domestically deceased residents.

In March and April of this year, altogether 6,331 deaths in the Netherlands were confirmed to have been due to COVID-19

The volume of care provided to the elderly is growing faster than the number of patients. As a result, the volume of care per old person is increasing.

In 2013, 141,245 people in the Netherlands died, most of them from cancer and cardiovascular disease: 30 percent and 27 percent respectively. Causes of death were partly coded automatically in 2013.

In 2017, the number of deaths in the Netherlands stood at 150 thousand. The most common death cause with 47 thousand cases (31 percent) was cancer.

Cancer has been the main cause of death among men for years, since 2016 also among women