Investment climate; Dutch economy international comparison, 1960-2012
| Countries | Periods | Labour productivity (in GDP) GDP per capita (1,000 PPS) | Labour productivity (in GDP) GDP volume change (in % of previous year) | Labour productivity (in GDP) GDP per hour worked (US-dollar (2005 PPP)) | Labour productivity (in GDP) GDP per person employed (1 000 US-dollar (2005 PPP)) | Employed labour force Working population By age 55 to 65 years (% of the population aged 55 to 65 years) | Employed labour force Annual hours worked per person employed (hours per year) | Quality of life Life expectancy at birth Women (years) | Quality of life Income quintile share ratio (ratio) | Ecological sustainability Energy consumption per unit of GDP (kg of oil equivalent per 1,000 euro GDP) | Ecological sustainability Emission carbon dioxide (CO2) per capita (1,000 kilogram per capita) | Ecological sustainability Electricity renewable energy sources (% of total consumption of electricity) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2012 | 33.80 | 3.6 | 43.3 | 73.3 | 61.4 | 1,690 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Austria | 2012 | 33.30 | 0.8 | 45.9 | 73.2 | 43.1 | 1,595 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Belgium | 2012 | 30.30 | -0.3 | 54.7 | 78.6 | 39.5 | 1,436 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Canada | 2012 | 31.90 | 1.8 | 42.9 | 73.7 | 59.8 | 1,717 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Czech Republic | 2012 | 20.40 | 1.8 | 28.4 | 51.1 | 49.4 | 1,800 | . | 3.5 | . | . | . |
| Denmark | 2012 | 31.90 | -0.5 | 44.1 | 67.2 | 60.8 | 1,524 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Finland | 2012 | 29.30 | -0.2 | 41.5 | 69.3 | 58.2 | 1,672 | . | 3.7 | . | . | . |
| France | 2012 | 27.70 | 0.0 | 51.2 | 75.6 | 44.5 | 1,476 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Germany | 2012 | 31.20 | 0.9 | 49.0 | 68.5 | 61.5 | 1,397 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Hungary | 2012 | 16.60 | -1.8 | 23.1 | 43.7 | 36.9 | 1,888 | . | 4.0 | . | . | . |
| Ireland | 2012 | 32.80 | 0.9 | 59.1 | 91.7 | 49.5 | 1,552 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Italy | 2012 | 25.00 | -2.4 | 39.9 | 70.0 | 40.4 | 1,752 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Japan | 2012 | 27.70 | 2.0 | 37.0 | 64.0 | 65.4 | 1,727 | . | . | . | . | . |
| The Netherlands | 2012 | 33.20 | -1.0 | 52.0 | 71.8 | 58.6 | 1,381 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Poland | 2012 | 16.90 | 2.0 | 23.4 | 45.2 | 38.7 | 1,935 | . | 4.9 | . | . | . |
| Spain | 2012 | 24.90 | -1.4 | 42.1 | 71.0 | 43.9 | 1,686 | . | . | . | . | . |
| South Korea | 2012 | 24.10 | 2.0 | 27.6 | 56.7 | 63.1 | 2,055 | . | . | . | . | . |
| Sweden | 2012 | 32.60 | 1.2 | 44.5 | 72.2 | 73.1 | 1,621 | . | . | . | . | . |
| United Kingdom | 2012 | 27.80 | 0.3 | 42.3 | 70.1 | 58.1 | 1,656 | . | . | . | . | . |
| United States | 2012 | 38.30 | 2.2 | 53.2 | 95.4 | 60.7 | 1,792 | . | . | . | . | . |
| EU-15 | 2012 | 28.00 | . | . | . | 50.9 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| EU-25 | 2012 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| EU-27 | 2012 | 25.60 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| OECD | 2012 | . | . | . | . | 55.6 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||||||||
Table explanation
This table provides an international comparison of the performance of the economy. This is done by means of a number of broadly accepted economic indicators as gross domestic product and employed labour force. These indicators are complemented by a number of indicators on the quality of life and ecological sustainability.
Note: Comparable definitions are used to facilitate international comparisons of the figures. The definitions used here sometimes differ from definitions used by Statistics Netherlands. The figures in this table can differ from Dutch figures presented elsewhere on the website of Statistics Netherlands.
Data available for: 1960, 1970, 1980 and from 1990 up to 2012.
Status of the figures:
The external sources of these data frequently supply adjusted figures on preceding periods. These adjusted data are not mentioned as such in the table.
Changes as of 1 March 2018:
This table has been discontinued.
When will new figures be published?
No longer applicable.
Description topics
- Labour productivity (in GDP)
- Labour productivity is often expressed as gross domestic product (GDP) per hour worked, or as GDP per person employed. The GDP is expressed here in purchasing power parities. A purchasing power parity is a currency converter, which eliminates the effects of differences in price levels. The same product in one country can cost less than in another country. By using purchasing power parities the comparability of the economies of several countries is improved.
- GDP per capita
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in current market prices, per capita, expressed in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS).
Source: European Commission, AMECO database.
- GDP volume change
- Gross Domestic Product, volume, corrected for differences in purchasing power (2005 PPP, US-dollar).
Sources: OECD Economic Outlook 93 and OECD Labour Force Statistics (MEI).
- GDP per hour worked
- Gross Domestic Product, volume, corrected for differences in purchasing power (2005 PPP, US-dollar), per hour worked.
Sources: OECD Economic Outlook 93 and OECD Labour Force Statistics (MEI).
- GDP per person employed
- Gross Domestic Product, volume, corrected for differences in purchasing power (2005 PPP, 1 000 US-dollar), per person employed.
Source: OECD Economic Outlook 93 and OECD Labour Force Statistics (MEI).
- Employed labour force
- Working population
- Employed persons aged 15 to 65 years within the total population aged 15 to 65 years. In this international comparison the definitions according to international directives are used. Someone is part of the employed labour force when he or she is 15 years or older and works more than 1 hour a week. This differs from the method used normally by Statistics Netherlands, where someone in the Netherlands is counted in the employed labour force when he or she works at least 12 hours a week.
Sources: OECD Labour Force Statistics.- By age
- 55 to 65 years
- Annual hours worked per person employed
- Average number of hours worked per year, per person employed.
Source: OECD Labour Force Statistics.
- Quality of life
- Life expectancy at birth
- The average number of remaining years of life of a person at birth.
Source: OECD Health Status.
The figures by region are derived from a non-recurring publication of Statistics Netherlands and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in 2005: 'Achtergronden en
veronderstellingen bij het model pearl. Naar een nieuwe regionale bevolkings- en allochtonenprognose.'- Women
- The income quintile share ratio is the sum of the incomes of the 20 percent highest incomes in the population, divided by the sum of the incomes of the 20 percent lowest incomes in the population. To determine someone's income, first the total disposable income of a household is determined. Then this income is corrected for the household composition (equivalised). Then all persons within the household are attributed the same equivalised income.
Source: Eurostat.
- Ecological sustainability
- Energy consumption per unit of GDP
- It is expressed in kilograms of oil equivalent per 1,000 euro of GDP. This is a measure of energy use in relation to energy use based on oil.
Source: Eurostat.
- Emission carbon dioxide (CO2) per capita
- Emissions of CO2 (carbon dioxide) according to IPCC standards, per capita. IPCC stands for International Panel on Climate Change. It concerns the emissions released by burning oil, coal and gas for energy use. Emissions released by burning wood and waste, and by some industrial processes such as the production of cement, have not been taken into account.
Source: OECD.
- Electricity renewable energy sources
- Contribution of electricity from renewable energy sources to total gross electricity consumption. Renewable non-fossil energy sources are: wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas, and biogases. The total gross national electricity consumption of a country is defined as the total gross national electricity generation (from all domestic sources), plus electricity imports, minus exports.
Source: Eurostat.