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Overweight and obesity rates among children and young adults in 2018. 12% of children and 25% of young adults are overweight.

Over the past three decades, the proportion of overweight people in the Netherlands has grown among adults as well as among 4 to 20-year-olds.

Customised table on body satisfaction over the period 2015-2017.

Almost half of the total Dutch adult population are moderately or severely overweight. In the period 2015-2017, two in five severely overweight (obese) people indicated that they were dissatisfied...

One percent of the Dutch population aged 20 years or older are morbidly obese.

Many older people in the Netherlands still remember times of food shortage. Today’s supermarkets, specialist food shops and market stalls sell an unprecedented range of products. At the same time,...

One-quarter of lowest educated obese

The average weight of Dutch men and women has increased more rapidly over the past two decades than their average length. As a result, the number of overweight people has grown significantly.

Some 400 thousand people in the Netherlands give blood. This 4 percent of 18-69 year-olds, the age group that is permitted to give blood.

In 2020, 20 percent of the Dutch adult population indicated they smoked occasionally.

People with a healthy lifestyle are happier and more satisfied about their lives than others.

In 2021, half of the Dutch population aged 18 years and over were overweight.

Obese and underweight persons are more often depressive than people in the normal body weight range.

In the period 2019 to 2020, the vast majority of young people between the ages of 4 and 25 perceived their own health as good or very good.

The proportion of diabetics in the Netherlands increased from nearly 3 percent in 2001/2002 to 4 percent in 2007/2008.

Nearly one in three 18-24 year-olds smoke, and one in five of this age group are overweight. At the same time, nearly 91 percent report their own health as good or very good.

In 2018, the average height of Dutch men aged 20 years and over stood at 1.81 metres; for women the average height was 1.67 metres. Since 1981, the average body height has increased by 3.8 cm for men...

Last year, 4 percent of people in the Netherlands were diabetic patients. Among them are more older, male and overweight people than among non-diabetics.

In 2021, half of the adult population in the Netherlands were overweight. This is the same as in 2018 at the start of the National Prevention Agreement.

In the period 2018-2021, 12 percent of children aged 2 to 11 were overweight and 3 percent severely overweight (obese).

The proportion of obese people in the Dutch population has doubled within the last two decades, but is still below the average level across the OECD countries. At the same time, health care...

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

Last year 4.8 percent in the Dutch population reported to have diabetes.