Health, lifestyle, health care use and supply, causes of death; key figures
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Table explanation
This table provides an overview of the key figures on health and care available on StatLine. All figures are taken from other tables on StatLine, either directly or through a simple conversion. In the original tables, breakdowns by characteristics of individuals or other variables are possible.
The period after the year of review before data become available differs between the data series.
The number of exam passes/graduates in year t is the number of persons who obtained a diploma in school/study year starting in t-1 and ending in t.
Data available from: 2001
Status of the figures:
2024:
The available figures are definite.
2023:
Most available figures are definite
Figures are provisional for:
- sickness absence;
- youth care;
- persons employed in health and welfare.
2022:
Most available figures are definite, figures are provisional for:
- diagnoses known to the general practitioner;
- hospital admissions by some diagnoses;
- average period of hospitalization;
- supplied drugs;
- sickness absence;
- AWBZ/Wlz-funded long term care;
- Mbo health care graduates, Hbo nursing graduates, medicine graduates (university);
- persons employed in healthcare;
- profitability and operating results at institutions.
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditures on care.
2021:
Most available figures are definite.
Figures are provisional for:
- persons employed in health and welfare;
- persons employed in healthcare;
Figures are revised provisional for:
- expenditures of care.
2020 and earlier:
All available figures are definite.
Changes as of 5 June 2024:
More recent figures have been added for:
- life expectancy;
- self-perceived health;
- hospital admissions by some diagnoses;
- sickness absence;
- contacts with health professionals;
- persons aged 80 or older;
- youth care;
- smoking, heavy drinkers, physical activity;
- overweight;
- high blood pressure;
- physicians and nurses employed in care;
- persons employed in health and welfare;
- persons employed in healthcare;
- Mbo health care graduates;
- Hbo nursing graduates / medicine graduates (university);
- expenditures on care;
Changes as of 7 July 2023:
The series 'Hbo nursing graduates' and 'medicine graduates (university)' have been replaced from 2016 for figures rounded to tens.
When will new figures be published?
New figures will be published in December 2024.
Description topics
- Births, deaths and life expectancy
- Crude birth rate, the number of live births to teenage mothers and older mothers, some causes of death, perinatal mortality, life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
- Live births to teenage mothers
- Live born children to mothers younger than 20 years at the infant's birth.
Mother’s age (exact):
The number of whole years that have passed since the mother's date of birth.
Live born child:
A baby showing some sign of life after birth, regardless of the duration of pregnancy.
- Live births to 35+ mothers
- Live born children to mothers aged 35 years or older at the infant's birth.
Mother’s age (exact):
The number of whole years that have passed since the mother's date of birth.
Live born child:
A baby showing some sign of life after birth, regardless of the duration of pregnancy.
- Live births to 40+ mothers
- Live born children to mothers aged 40 years or older at the infant's birth.
Mother’s age (exact):
The number of whole years that have passed since the mother's date of birth.
Live born child:
A baby showing some sign of life after birth, regardless of the duration of pregnancy.
- Some causes of death
- Deaths by main primary cause of death per 10 000 of the average population.
In addition to relative figures for road traffic accidents and suicides, absolute numbers are also presented.
The basis for the classification and coding used for mortality by cause of death is the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD; World Health Organisation (WHO)), version 10.
Average population
The average population in agegroup L for year t is calculated as follows:
((Population in agegroup (L) on January 1st year t)+
(Population in agegroup (L) on January 1st year t+1))/2.
The calculation of the average of children at the age of zero years differs from this definition and has been calculated as follows:
((live births in year t)+(children aged zero years on 1 January of year t+1))/2.- Diseases of the circulatory system
- Diseases of the circulatory system.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: I00-I99;
ICD-9: 390-459;
ICD-8: 390-458.
- Diseases of the respiratory system
- Diseases of the respiratory system.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: J00-J99;
ICD-9: 460-519;
ICD-8: 460-519.
- Diseases of the digestive system
- Diseases of the digestive system.
ICD-codes:
ICD-10: K00-K93;
ICD-9: 520-579;
ICD-8: 520-577
- Health and disease
- Perceived health, contacts with the GP and hospital admissions for some diagnoses, sickness absence
- At the general practitioner known with
- Individuals with one or more disease episodes as registered by the general practitioner, for several diagnostic groups.
The diagnoses are coded according to the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-1).- Digestive complaints or diseases
- The total of symptoms, complaints and diseases of the digestive system.
ICPC-1 codes: D01-D29, D70-D99
- Cardiovascular complaints or diseases
- The total of symptoms, complaints and diseases of the cardiovasular system.
ICPC-1 codes: K01-K29, K70-K99
- Respiratory complaints or diseases
- The total of symptoms, complaints and diseases of the respiratory system.
ICPC-1 codes: R01-R29, R70-R99.
This group also includes ICPC code R83 (other respiratory infections), which now also includes SARS-CoV-2 (COVID19) and post-COVID syndrome. Due to interim changes in the coding advice and changes in the testing policy and the reporting of test results to the GP, the data in this group for the years 2020-2022 cannot be properly compared.
- Urological complaints or diseases
- Total of urological symptoms, complaints and diseases.
ICPC-1 codes: U01-U29, U70-U99
- Hospital admissions by some diagnoses
- Clinical and day care admissions and observations without overnight stay in general and university hospitals and two hospitals specialising in one type of disease.
Diagnoses are recorded according to the 'International Classification of Diseases'. Up to 2013 version 9 was used (ICD-9-CM), From 2013 onwards version 10 (ICD-10) is used.
Diagnoses are classified according to the International Shortlist for Hospital Morbidity Tabulation (ISHMT). Categories are definied slightly different using ICD-9 (up to 2013) or ICD-10 (from 2013).
Figures on diagnoses refer to the principal diagnosis registered at each admission, as indicated at discharge form the hospital.
The figures are expressed per 10 000 of the population in the year under review.- Diseases of the circulatory system
- Diseases of the circulatory system.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 390-434, 436-445, 447-459
ICD-10: I00-I99.
- Diseases of the respiratory system
- Diseases of the respiratory system.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 034.0, 460-519
ICD-10: J00-J99.
- Diseases of the digestive system
- Diseases of the digestive system.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 520-579
ICD-10: K00-K93.
- Diseases of the genitourinary system
- ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 099.4, 580-598, 599.0-599.6, 599.8-599.9, 600-629, 788.0
ICD-10: N00-N99.
- Injury, poisoning, other external causes
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
ICD-codes:
ICD-9: 800-999
ICD-10: S00-T98.
- Use of health care services
- Average period of hospitalisation, supplied drugs, number of contacts with health care providers, AWBZ/Wlz- funded long term care, including persons older than 80 in the population, youth care.
- Contacts with health professionals
- Number of contacts with general practitioners and physiotherapists/exercise therapist in the 12 months preceding the survey date.
Due to changes in methodology and questionnaire, data before and after 2010 cannot fully be compared.- Physiotherapist or exercise therapist
- Contact with a therapist for physical or exercise therapy. Physiotherapy or exercise therapy during hospital admission is not included.
Until 2010, the figures are restricted to physiotherapy.
- Wlz/AWBZ-funded long term care
- Residential care funded under the Chronic Care Act (Wlz) and (before 2015) under the Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ).
- Use of Wlz/AWBZ-funded residential care
- The number of persons aged 18 years or older at the end of the year (second Friday of November) receiving residential care, funded under the Chronic Care Act (Wlz) and (before 2015) under the Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ), and for which a personal contribution was paid.
Residential care includes all care received in kind in an institution, for which a personal contribution must be paid and the costs of which are borne by the Wlz/AWBZ.
Short stay in an institution is also included.
Persons under 18 years of age do not have to pay a personal contribution.
As of 2011, residential care is classified according to the type of care received, expressed in care severity packages (zzp's).
There are zzps for Nursing and Care (VV), Disability Care (GHZ) and Long-Term Mental Health Care (GGZ) sectors.- Care for the disabled
- Persons with a care package (zzp) Care for the disabled
Care for persons with physical, mental or sensory disabilities based on a care severity package (zzp) in the Disability Care Sector (GHZ).
- Expenditures on care
- Expenditure on care
- Expenditure on health and social care including child care, by type of supplier. All activities within the area of health and social care are considered, irrespective of whether it concerns a major or minor activity of the economic units. These figures refer to a broader definition than internationally used in the System of Health Accounts, that refers to health care including long term nursing care (health).
- Providers of care for the handicapped
- Integrated institutions for the handicapped; Social pedagogical services; Provision of goods and services by municipalities; Interpreters for the deaf; Institutes providing guide dogs for the blind; Households.
- Other care providers
- Other providers of health and social care and administration and management institutions.
Administration and management institutions:
Health Care Insurance Board (Health Insurance Fund up to 2006; Health Insurance Act since 2006; Exceptional Medical Expenses Act); Private health and social care insurance companies; Ministry of Health; local government.
- Expenditure as percentage of the GDP
- Total expenditure on care expressed as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP).
- Care supply
- Quantitative data on care providers: distance to care provider, institutions with small profitability, share of overhead in institutions.
- Average distance to facilities
- The average distance of all residents of the Netherlands from their residential address to a number of the nearest facilities.
- Physiotherapist
- The average distance of all residents of the Netherlands to the nearest physiotherapist practice, by road.
- Care institutions with profitability <0%
- Percentage of companies in a certain SBI class (SBI = Dutch Standard Industrial Classification) whose profitability is less than 0%.
Profitability
Profitability is the sum of the operating result, financial result and extraordinary items, divided by total earnings. It is an indicator of how profitable the company is.
SBI 2008: Statistics Netherlands' Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities 2008.
The SBI is a systematic hierarchical classification of economic activities. The most recent version is SBI 2008. It is used by Statistics Netherlands among other things to classify business entities according to their main activity.
The SBI 2008 has six levels. The SBI codes to the level of classes (4 digits), with a number of exceptions, the same as determined by Eurostat NACE REV. 1 (Nomenclature statistique des activités économiques dans la Communauté Européenne) which is used in all EU Member States. The sub-class, denoted by 5 digits, is a further detailed breakdown by the Netherlands.- 8720+87301 Care for the disabled
- Institutions providing care for disabled persons, in SBI classes 8720 and 87301.
SBI class 8720 includes:
- Care and counselling in a protected environment (full-time residence) of patients with mental retardation and severe mental retardation;
- Provision of training, development and employment activities as daytime activities for mentally disabled and elderly people with dementia;
- Care farms (farmyard occupational therapy for people with disabilities).
SBI class 87301 includes:
- Care and counselling in a protected environment of patients with a physical or sensory disability;
- Provision of training, development and employment activities as daytime activities for people with a physical or sensory disability.
Up to and including 2014, only health care institutions were included which were funded under the Health Insurance (Zvw) or General Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ).
- Operating result per fte
- Total operating result divided by total number of full-time equivalents (fte) of employees.
The full-time equivalents is a measure of labour volume, calculated by converting all full-time and part-time jobs to full-time jobs.
An employee is a person carrying out work in return for remuneration.- 8720+87301 Care for the disabled
- Institutions providing care for disabled persons, in SBI classes 8720 and 87301.
SBI class 8720 includes:
- Care and counselling in a protected environment (full-time residence) of patients with mental retardation and severe mental retardation;
- Provision of training, development and employment activities as daytime activities for mentally disabled and elderly people with dementia;
- Care farms (farmyard occupational therapy for people with disabilities).
SBI class 87301 includes:
- Care and counselling in a protected environment of patients with a physical or sensory disability;
- Provision of training, development and employment activities as daytime activities for people with a physical or sensory disability.
Up to and including 2014, only health care institutions were included which were funded under the Health Insurance (Zvw) or General Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ).