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In 2023, young people aged 18 to 24 were found to adopt a less climate-conscious lifestyle than people in older age groups.

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

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

Smoking, alcohol, height and weight, contraceptive pill Sex, age, educational level

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

In 2022, 22 percent of Dutch 12 to 24-year-olds said they had trouble sleeping.

One quarter of all main meals consumed in the Netherlands in 2023 were vegetarian.

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

In 2022, 44 percent of Dutch adults were getting enough exercise to comply with the guidelines of the Health Council of the Netherlands.

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

In 2022, 27 percent of people aged 75 and over reported they were sexually active. This was still 16 percent in 2014.

Health, limitations, pain, health care Disorders, informal care

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

In 2021, 18 percent of Dutch young people aged 12 to 24 were mentally unhealthy. This was still 11 percent in 2019 and 2020.

Smoking, alcohol and drug use, being overweight, physical activity Sexual health, nutrition, giving informal care

Smoking, alcohol and drug use, being overweight, physical activity Sexual health, nutrition, health examination, giving informal care.

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

Health expectancy, healthy life expectancy, perceived health, physical limitations, chronic or longstanding morbidity, mental health, GALI

In 2023, in 13 percent of families with children under 18 only the father was in paid work, while their partners (mostly women) were not in paid work.

Last year, 221 thousand minors in the Netherlands were living in low-income households, the lowest number in 25 years.

Thirty-six percent of Dutch adults think the Netherlands should make more use of nuclear energy. This was still 25 percent in 2020.

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.

On 27 February 2020, the first patient testing positive for coronavirus was reported in the Netherlands; the first COVID death was reported on 6 March.

Seventy-six percent of the population aged 18 or older are concerned about the impact of climate change on future generations.

In the first six months of 2020, nearly 80 percent of the Dutch population aged 12 years and over used the internet to search for health information, book appointments with their general practitioner...