Country profile · NL

Netherlands

40 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →

Population

18m

GDP

€1.12T

GDP per capita

€61,968

Population density

483 /km²

Unemployment

3.9%

pop-weighted

Employment

83.4%

pop-weighted

Area

37,374.2 km²

NUTS-3 regions

Country indicators · 69 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)

Economy

Gross value added, total (current prices)

€1.00T

country total

GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)

€18.4B

country total

GVA — industry (B–E)

€138.7B

country total

GVA — manufacturing (C)

€110.0B

country total

GVA — construction (F)

€48.5B

country total

GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)

€236.6B

country total

Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)

€26,637

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GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)

53,351 PPS

pop-weighted avg

GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)

€62,214

pop-weighted avg

Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)

€952.5B

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Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)

€84.5B

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Compensation of employees (total wage bill)

€2.20T

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GVA — real estate activities (L)

€75.6B

country total

GVA — information & communication (J)

€47.2B

country total

GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)

€279.8B

country total

GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)

€219.0B

country total

Labour market

Employment, total persons

10.3m

country total

Self-employed persons

1.7m

country total

Employment in manufacturing (C)

756.8k

country total

Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)

85.6%

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Youth unemployment rate (15–24)

8.8%

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Business demography

Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)

2.3m

country total

Enterprise births

216.2k

country total

Enterprise deaths

113.8k

country total

3-year enterprise survival rate

6.8%

pop-weighted avg

Innovation & R&D

EPO patent applications

1.8k

country total

EPO patent applications per million inhabitants

228 /M

pop-weighted avg

Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)

5.4%

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Education

Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64

46.0%

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Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)

55.7%

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Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)

25.9%

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Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)

31.8%

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Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)

13.0%

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Digital

Households with internet access

99.3%

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Tourism

Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)

145.4m

country total

Mobility

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants

512 /1k

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Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.

44.1k

country total

Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).

244.2

pop-weighted avg

Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.

32.2

pop-weighted avg

Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.

119

country total

Demography

Population aged 15–64 (working age)

11.6m

country total

Population aged 65+

3.8m

country total

Population aged under 15

2.7m

country total

Median age of population

42.8 yrs

pop-weighted avg

Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)

32.6%

pop-weighted avg

Crude rate of total population change

5.6 /1k

pop-weighted avg

Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment

6.0 /1k

pop-weighted avg

Crude birth rate

9.2 /1k

pop-weighted avg

Crude death rate

9.6 /1k

pop-weighted avg

Live births

166.1k

country total

Deaths

172.2k

country total

Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)

55.9%

pop-weighted avg

Total fertility rate (births per woman)

1.45

pop-weighted avg

Population density (persons per km²)

955 /km²

pop-weighted avg

Social

At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)

15.8%

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Life expectancy at birth

81.9 yrs

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Health

Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)

1,016 /100k

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Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)

246 /100k

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Safety & crime

Robberies per 100k inhabitants

23.5 /100k

pop-weighted avg

Burglaries per 100k inhabitants

171 /100k

pop-weighted avg

Thefts per 100k inhabitants

1,102 /100k

pop-weighted avg

Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants

37 /M

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Climate

Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)

11 m

pop-weighted avg

Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)

4 days/yr

pop-weighted avg

Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)

30 days/yr

pop-weighted avg

Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)

3 days/yr

pop-weighted avg

environment

PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.

14.9

pop-weighted avg

NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.

13.6

pop-weighted avg

O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).

51.5

pop-weighted avg

Largest regions by GDP

NL32B

Groot-Amsterdam

pop 1.5m · gdp €172.5B

NL350

Utrecht

pop 1.4m · gdp €106.3B

NL366

Groot-Rijnmond

pop 1.5m · gdp €97.4B