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Forecast: 3.5 million single households in 2030
The number of households in the Netherlands is projected to have grown to 8.5 million by the year 2030, from the current 7.9 million.
Households in the future
Forecast of number of households in the Netherlands
Nearly one in ten live-born babies born to single mothers
Nearly one in every ten live-born babies were born to single mothers last year. Nine in ten were born to couples living together.
Four in ten surviving relatives receive Anw benefit
Nearly 40 percent of people younger than 65 years claim the special benefit for surviving relatives (Algemene Nabestaandenwet or Anw) within one year of their partner’s death. Most Anw benefits are...
Traditional role patterns in spending by single men and women
Single men spend their money on other things than single women. Men spend more on cars, eating out and gadgets, while women spend more on clothes, personal care and fruit and vegetables.
One in six single female old age pensioners have low supplementary incomes
In 2012, nearly 2 million households received old age pensions. In 173 thousand cases, the supplementary incomes of over-65 households did not exceed 250 euros a month. Among these households were...
One quarter of people living alone are not single
One in five 18 to 64 year-old men in the Netherlands lived alone in 2010. For women this was just over one in six.
More than one fifth of people living apart engaged in LAT relationship
Part of the people living alone are not single: over twenty percent of adult people and parents living alone are engaged in LAT. LAT relationships are more common among younger than among older...
More and more digital TVs
Seven in ten households have a digital television set; the rate is three times as high as half a decade ago. TVs with Internet access are also becoming more and more common in Dutch households.
Many Antillean and Surinamese teenage mothers
In 2009, 2,636 babies were born in the Netherlands to mothers younger than 20 years. This makes the Dutch teenage birth rate one of the lowest in the world.
3.6 million one-person households in 2050
The number of one-person households will have mounted up to 3.6 million in 2050, an increase by 1 million compared to the current situation. Over the next two decades, the annual increase will be 30...
No Father's day for some fathers
Although most children in the Netherlands grow up with two parents, one in seven children experience the divorce of their parents. After a divorce, the contact between children and their fathers...