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Generally, lower educated persons more often receive health care services than higher educated people. Factors like age, gender, state of health and income partially account for the differences...

In the period 2010-2012, an average of nearly 1 million people reported to have consulted alternative healers in the past year, i.e. nearly 6 percent in the Dutch population. Acupuncture treatments...

The Dutch have not been very successful in recent years in their pursuit of a healthier lifestyle.

Last year, Dutch expenditure on health care and welfare amounted to 83.8 billion euro.

Many people in the Netherlands suffer from one or more chronic disorders. A large part of them do not feel healthy. An unhealthy lifestyle, e.g. not taking enough exercise and smoking in fact often...

TNO and CBS are joining forces on transparent and verifiable AI use

In week 16 (ending 19 april) mortality in nursing and care homes declined for the first time. It is still double the weekly average recorded in the first ten weeks of 2020.

In week 14, there were an estimated 1,485 deaths among the institutional population. In the first ten weeks of 2020, weekly mortality in institutional households stood at 797 on average.

In 2007, total spending on care, i.e. health care plus welfare services, amounted to 74 billion euro, a 5.1 percent increase relative to 2006.

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

The percentage of children suffering from dyslexia has risen slightly since 2001.

Expenditure and financing Year

The population of the Netherlands is projected to grow continuously over the next fifty years.

January’s inflation rate according to the consumer price index (CPI) was 0.6 percent. In December consumer prices were 0.7 percent higher than one year previously.

In 2018, a total of 4,628 people in the Netherlands died due to an accidental fall, nearly 600 more than in the previous year. This comes down to 13 fatal falls per day on average.

On a weekly basis, mortality in the Netherlands stands at 2,900 on average. It tends to be higher in winter than in summer.

Hay fever index

In the first nine weeks of the corona crisis (week 11 to 19 inclusive), there were almost 9 thousand more deaths (estimated) than would normally be expected during this period.

People aged 45 and over with type 2 diabetes are more likely to suffer from other long-term disorders.

Combining large data files may not only help Statistics Netherlands it could also contribute to scientific advances

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Even in times of economic recession, most Dutch people are satisfied with many aspects that determine quality of life.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is responsible for compiling statistics on all deceased persons in the Netherlands, along with their cause of death.

Medical consumption, health and disorders, physical impediments and lifestyle by characteristics of the consumer.

European harmonised consumer price indices. Index figures Consumer goods. (base year 2005 = 100)