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In 2023, 16 percent of adults aged 20 years or older were obese

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

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

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 2022, 17 percent of all children and young people in the Netherlands aged 2 to 24 years were overweight.

In 2022, 36 percent of adults said that they would like to eat more healthily.

Birth, death, life expectancy, health and disease, use of health care services, education and labour market, costs of care, care providers

Persons to whom medicines were dispensed by medicine group (ATC), age and sex in absolute figures and as percentage of the total population

Persons to whom medicines were dispensed by origin, medicine group, age, sex

Health status, lifestyle, use of health care services, care supply, (healthy) life expectancy and causes of death

Persons to whom medicines were dispensed by background, medicine group, age, sex in absolute figures and as percentage of total population

Number of deaths in the population of the Netherlands by main underlying cause of death (extensive list of 'three digit codes'), by age and sex

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

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.

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

Health perception, height, obesity, health complaints, physical limitations, psychosocial complaints by sex, type of insurance,

One-quarter of lowest educated 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...

A publication just released by Statistics Netherlands on health and care in 2007 comprises seven articles on a range of recent developments in the area of health and care.

One in ten people in the Netherlands suffered from obesity in 2012. They are much more likely to develop diabetes type 2, high blood pressure, degenerative joint disease and cardiovascular disease...

In the second quarter of this year, 82 percent of the population were positive about their own health. This share was 78 percent in the same quarter of the three previous years.

Dossier page on immigrants and health

Smoking behaviour, alcohol consumption, physical activity and obesity by sex and age, per municipality in the Caribbean Netherlands, 2017

In 2018, 22.4 percent of the Dutch adult population indicated they were occasional smokers. 8.2 percent were excessive drinkers based on their self-reported alcohol consumption and 50.2 percent were...