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Balance and Maastricht debt in million euros and as percentage of GDP subdivided to subsectors of general government.

Government spending was 12 billion euros higher than its revenues in 2024.

Government spending over the first three quarters of 2024 exceeded revenues by over 2 billion euros.

In H1 2024, the Netherlands’ public debt fell by nearly 6 billion euros to 475 billion euros.

How prepared is the Netherlands to withstand such a major shock in the short-term?

Revenue and expenditure, net balance and debt of the general government sector, in million euros and as a pecentage of GDP.

The Netherlands received more than 2.9 billion euros in funding from the European Commission in 2022

Production, expenditures, income and external economic transactions. Values at current prices and chainlinked volume 2015 prices

The Dutch government spent 3.5 billion euros more than it received in 2023. This is equivalent to 0.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), and was slightly higher than the 2022 deficit, which was...

The Dutch central government achieved a surplus of 3 billion euros over the first three quarters of this year.

The Dutch government realised a slight surplus of 0.1 billion euros over 2022. There was still a 20-percent budget deficit in 2021.

The first three quarters produced a positive budget balance of 7 billion euros.

In 2021, the Dutch government recorded a budget deficit of almost 22 billion euros. This is equal to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

In 2020, the coronavirus crisis drained the government budgets of countries all across Europe.

This year, the Dutch government spent 27 billion euros more than it received up through September.

In the Netherlands, the local government is dependent on the central government for almost three quarters of its income. In 2019, 27 percent of the local government's income consisted of its own...

In the first six months of 2020, the Dutch government spent nearly 15 billion euros more than it received. This was mainly due to measures implemented by the government to support the economy...

In 2019 the public surplus amounted to 1.7 percent of GDP. Both revenues and expenditure rose sharply. Public debt at the end of 2019 amounted to 48.6 percent of GDP.

In mid-year 2019, the Netherlands’ gross debt ratio – government debt as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) – amounted to 50.9 percent of GDP.

The Dutch central government realised a budget surplus of more than 14 billion euros over the first three quarters of 2019.

In the first six months of 2019, the government had a budget surplus of 14 bn euros, as revenues increased more rapidly than expenditure.

The Dutch government achieved an 11 billion euro budget surplus in 2018, equivalent to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Government debt declined, just as in previous years, and stood at...

Government revenues in the first three quarters of 2018 exceeded expenditure by almost 12 billion euros.

Government revenues were nearly 5 billion euros higher in the first six months of 2018 than in the same period last year. This resulted in a year-on-year increase in the budget surplus, equivalent to...

In 2017, raising the statutory pension (AOW) entitlement age resulted in savings of approximately 1.7 billion euros. The situation after raising the entitlement age is compared with the entitlement...