Netherlands – NL

EU regions: Netherlands

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2021	2.856
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2021	1.413
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2023	26.4
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	9.6
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	2.9
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2024q3	21.6
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2024q3	37.7
percentage of workers usually working from home	2023	13.3
percentage of part time workers	2023	37.59
percentage of part time workers, men	2023	17.47
percentage of part time workers, women	2024q3	60.04
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP	2024q3	43.2
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2022	42.6
monthly minimum wage in €	2024q3	2134.08
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2024q3	1807.79
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2023	38 856
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2022	13
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2023	71.8
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2022	96.09
gender gap in employment rate	2023	91.74
gender gap in unemployment rate	2023	108.82
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023	11
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2024q3	7.6
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2024q3	8.6
NEET	2023	3.3
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2022	131
HICP inflation	November 2024	3.8
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2023	0.7
Employment
employment rate	2023	82.4
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	16.1
job vacancies rate	2024q3	4.2

More on wikipedia wikidata Q55 on OpenStreetMap Netherlands slovensky: NL

Subregions: Northern Netherlands, Eastern Netherlands, Western Netherlands, Southern Netherlands

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2023	3.5
youth unemployment rate	2023	8.2
unemployment rate of low educated people	2024q3	6
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024q3	0.5
share of long term unemployed	2023	13.9

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Netherlands

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 261.7 E: 184.8; U: 15.9; I: 61.0	P: 1127.0 E: 939.4; U: 50.1; I: 137.5	P: 914.0 E: 807.9; U: 39.1; I: 67.0
Y30-39	P: 300.9 E: 212.5; U: 10.8; I: 77.6	P: 768.2 E: 672.9; U: 16.5; I: 78.8	P: 1200.0 E: 1112.1; U: 26.8; I: 61.1
Y40-49	P: 357.9 E: 264.9; U: 7.5; I: 85.5	P: 737.1 E: 649.1; U: 13.6; I: 74.4	P: 990.6 E: 913.2; U: 17.9; I: 59.5
Y50-59	P: 612.7 E: 444.1; U: 9.4; I: 159.2	P: 991.6 E: 851.9; U: 13.7; I: 126.0	P: 880.7 E: 787.8; U: 14.9; I: 78.0
Y60-69	P: 779.1 E: 317.9; U: 7.9; I: 453.3	P: 774.4 E: 382.9; U: 12.2; I: 379.3	P: 637.6 E: 354.9; U: 13.1; I: 269.6

Note: in thousands in 2023, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of economically inactive

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2023	17 811 292
population density	2022	517.8
old-age dependency ratio	2023	31.4
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2024q3	2.2
aggregate replacement ratio	2023	0.53
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2023	0.57
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2022	33
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2022	17.5

Employment by sectors, Netherlands

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	182.8	2%	B-E	917	9%
F	432.5	4%	G-I	2385.4	24%
J	436.9	4%	K	305.7	3%
L	78.7	1%	M_N	1303.5	13%
NRP	195.8	2%	O-Q	3094.1	32%
R-U	448.4	5%	TOTAL	9780.7	100%

Data for the period year 2023. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia:

The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland, [ˈneːdərlɑnt] (listen)) is a country located in Northwestern Europe with some overseas territories. In Europe, it consists of twelve provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. Together with three island territories in the Caribbean Sea—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba—it forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The official language is Dutch, but a secondary official language in the province of Friesland is West Frisian.

The five largest cities in the Netherlands are Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, and Eindhoven. Amsterdam is the country's capital, while The Hague holds the seat of the States General, Cabinet and Supreme Court. The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe, and the largest in any country outside Asia. The country is a founding member of the EU, Eurozone, G10, NATO, OECD and WTO, as well as a part of the Schengen Area and the trilateral Benelux Union. It hosts several intergovernmental organisations and international courts, many of which are centered in The Hague, which is consequently dubbed 'the world's legal capital'.

Netherlands literally means 'lower countries' in reference to its low elevation and flat topography, with only about 50 % of its land exceeding 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) above sea level, and nearly 17 % falling below sea level. Most of the areas below sea level, known as polders, are the result of land reclamation that began in the 16^th century.

Other: Netherlands, Norway

Neighbours: Belgium, Germany

Subregions: Northern Netherlands, Eastern Netherlands, Western Netherlands, Southern Netherlands

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Netherlands – NL, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PNL, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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