Households; size, composition, position in the household, 1 January

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Periods Persons in institutional households By sex and marital status Total men and women (number)
1995 247,708
1996 247,482
1997 241,531
1998 236,736
1999 230,507
2000 224,003
2001 218,784
2002 216,789
2003 214,800
2004 214,912
2005 213,202
2006 208,653
2007 206,732
2008 206,864
2009 207,003
2010 208,687
2011 219,315
2012 219,224
2013 214,784
2014 249,942
2015 244,794
2016 254,888
2017 245,302
2018 248,772
2019 246,661
2020 258,863
2021 258,760
2022 262,539
2023 276,024
2024 289,176
Source: CBS.
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Table explanation


This table contains information about the progress of the households in the Netherlands by size and composition and persons by household position, on 1 January.

Data available from: 1995

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final.

With the information available for the reporting years 1995, 1996 and 1997 it is not easy to make an unambiguous assignment of persons in institutional households in three distinct categories of institutions. For this reason the numbers are set as unknown.

Changes as of 30 May 2024:
The figures of 1 January 2024 have been added.

When will new figures be published?
The final figures of 1 January 2025 will be added in the 4th quarter of 2025.

Description topics

Persons in institutional households
Institutional household:
One or more persons living in one accommodation whose housing and daily needs are provided professionally.
Included are institutions such as nursing homes, homes for the elderly, mental health institutions, forensic psychiatric institutions, institutions for mentally, physically or sensorily disabled persons, drug rehabilitation centres, shelters for the homeless, boarding schools, monasteries, prisons, military barracks, and asylum reception centres, in which persons (will) live for a longer period of time. From 2014, people in institutional households are presented in three groups, namely:
homes for the elderly and nursing homes, other health care institution and other type of institution.
By sex and marital status
Marital status:
Marital status resulting from a legal marriage ceremony. Judicial separations are included in the category married.

Marriage:
Legal, formally sanctioned living arrangement between two people.
Since 1 April 2001, it is legally possible for people in the Netherlands to marry a person of the same sex.

Registered partnership:
A marriage-like relationship between two people of the opposite or same sex, registered at the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Registered partnership was introduced in The Netherlands on 1 January 1998.
Total men and women
Total of men and women living in institutional households.