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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.

Forecast of number of households in the Netherlands

Nearly one in every ten live-born babies were born to single mothers last year. Nine in ten were born to couples living together.

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...

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.

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 in five 18 to 64 year-old men in the Netherlands lived alone in 2010. For women this was just over one in six.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...