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The Netherlands remains a prosperous country and a relatively cohesive society.

Well-being ‘here and now’ refers to people’s personal characteristics and the quality of the environment they live in. It relates to subjective well-being, material well-being, health, labour and...

What is well-being ‘here and now’? Health.

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

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

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

What is well-being ‘here and now’? Subjective well-being reflects how satisfied people are with their lives. It is an evaluative indicator that gives an indication of overall well-being at the...

The Netherlands has the second highest well-being in the ‘here and now’ in the European Union.

The Netherlands remains a prosperous country and a relatively cohesive society.

People under the age of 35 experience lower levels of well-being than older people in the Netherlands.

The 2023 Annual Youth Monitor presents a broad overview of the living situation of children and young people in the Netherlands, e.g. on mental health issues, student debt, smoking and school.

Dutch 25 to 34 year-olds experience lower levels of well-being than people in other age groups.

Quality of life in the Netherlands today, well-being ‘here and now’, is high. However it not just as high for everybody in the country; well-being of young adults is lower than for the rest of the...

How has the country been affected by the pandemic? Aside from distinct waves of excess mortality, there were numerous other outliers in national statistics.

In 2021, people in the Netherlands were more pessimistic about the future society than in 2018.

The Annual Report Youth Monitor 2021 Summary presents an outline of the living situation of young people in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including those in the Caribbean Netherlands.

In 2021, a lower share of young adults in the Netherlands experienced high personal well-being. For the first time since measurement commenced, they reported high well-being relatively less often...

How is well-being in the Netherlands developing? The Monitor of Well-being & the SDG’s 2022 examines the economic, ecological and social aspects of well-being in the Netherlands and the results for...

(Un)happiness and (dis)satisfaction with aspects of life Gender, age, migration background and other characteristics

Almost half of teenage girls in the Netherlands regularly or frequently feel pressure to perform because of internal expectations. The proportion is lower among boys: 3 in 10.

In the first few months of 2021, 47 percent of young people in the Netherlands between the ages of 12 and 25 indicated that their lives were negatively affected by the coronavirus crisis in general.

The Annual Report Youth Monitor 2021 Summary presents an outline of the living situation of young people in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including those in the Caribbean Netherlands.

At country level, the personal well-being of Dutch people barely changed over last year.

In recent years, people who have been adopted from abroad have regularly reported that things went wrong during the adoption process.

This Annual Report Youth Monitor 2020 Summary explores the situation of young people in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.