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Lower income brackets have shorter healthy life expectancy
The average life expectancy of people living in households with incomes below the poverty line is approximately 5 years shorter than the life expectancy of higher incomes. The healthy life expectancy...
Well-off people live longer in good health
Men and women from high-income households on average live about 8 and 7 years longer respectively than their counterparts in low-income households. The difference with respect to the number of years...
External causes of death
Survey on deaths caused by murder and manslaughter, suicide and accidents
Forecast: Population growth unabated in the next 50 years
The population of the Netherlands is projected to grow continuously over the next fifty years.
State of health of the Dutch population
Health perception, height, obesity, health complaints, physical limitations, psychosocial complaints by sex, type of insurance,
Disability benefits down by 175 thousand in the space of ten years
At the end of June 2013, 818 thousand people in the Netherlands were claiming a disability benefit, 175 thousand fewer than at the end of December 2002, when the record number of claimants was...
Economy hit harder in most other EU countries
The Dutch economy was dealt a severe blow in the first half of 2020, with the contraction that occurred over the second quarter the severest ever recorded.
More diabetics in obese population
Last year 4.8 percent in the Dutch population reported to have diabetes.
One in three disabled hold paid jobs
In 2013, 14 percent of all 15 to 64-year-olds in the Netherlands – nearly 1.6 million people – had a disability. They suffer from chronic diseases, disorders or disabilities restricting their...
More suicides
Last year, 1,871 people in the Netherlands committed suicide, the highest number ever.
1,894 suicides in 2016
Number of suicides has risen in recent years, but related to population and composition has been the same since 2013
6 in 10 Caribbean Dutch are overweight
Smoking behaviour, alcohol consumption, physical activity and obesity by sex and age, per municipality in the Caribbean Netherlands, 2017
Army medical statistics: a 19th century mine of information
We use statistics to build up our knowledge about society. This is an age-old idea of what statistics are for. In the words of Jan Ackersdyck, professor of statistics in Utrecht in the mid-19th...
Schedule
Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 6 - 10 October 2008 (Week 41).
Calendar
Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 30 September-4 December 2009 (Week 49).
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Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 21 - 25 March 2011 (Week 12).