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What is well-being ‘here and now’? Safety is about victims and perceptions of safety, both of which have a direct impact on citizens’ quality of life.

Recent data on distribution of well-being for the theme safety by sex, age, education level and origin/country of birth. Well-being is not distributed equally across all groups in the population....

In 2025, 37 percent of people said they felt generally unsafe at times, compared to 33 percent in 2019.

What is the impact of crime on its victims?

In 2024, 2.4 million people in the Netherlands aged 15 and over said they had been the victim of one or more forms of online crime within the past twelve months.

Two percent of Dutch people aged 15 or older were victims of stalking in 2023: 137 thousand females and 90 thousand males.

Feelings of unsafety among Dutch people are declining progressively. In 2012, 37 percent indicated that they felt unsafe occasionally in general terms, versus 32 percent in 2019.