Contribution to volume growth of GDP; National Accounts, 2016-2018
| Periods | National final expenditure Total (percentage points) | National final expenditure Gross capital formation (percentage points) | National final expenditure Final consumption expenditure Total (percentage points) | National final expenditure Final consumption expenditure Households (percentage points) | National final expenditure Final consumption expenditure General government (percentage points) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018* | 1.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||
Table explanation
This table presents economic growth data (percentage volume changes of gross domestic product) and the contributions to economic growth by expenditure components.
Gross domestic product can be calculated as the sum of final consumptions, gross capital formation and net exports. This expenditure approach allows to estimate the contribution of the various components of final expenditure to the volume change of GDP. For estimating the contribution, final expenditure components have to be adjusted for the incorporated imports. The adjusted final expenditure components sum up to GDP and are the bases of the calculation of the contribution of GDP growth. The attribution of imports to final expenditure components is performed using input-output analysis.
Contributions of final expenditure to GDP are provided in percentage points of GDP growth.
Data available from 2016 to 2018.
Status of the figures:
Data of 2016 and 2017 are final. Data of 2018 are provisional. Due to the discontinuation, the provisional figures will not become definite.
Changes as of November 25th 2020:
None. This table has been discontinued.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable. This table has been dicontinued.
Description topics
- National final expenditure
- The sum of the consumption of households and the government, gross fixed capital formation and changes in inventories.
- Total
- Final consumption expenditure
- Expenditure on goods or services that are used for the direct satisfaction of individual or collective needs. Expenses may be made at home or abroad, but they are always made by resident institutional units, that is households or institutions residing in the Netherlands. By definition only households, non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) and government institutions consume. Enterprises do not: expenses they make on goods and services are thought to serve production and are therefore classified as intermediate consumption of fixed capital formation. The general government is a special case. The government also has intermediate consumption, just like enterprises. But the output delivered by the government which is not directly paid for, non-market output (like safety), is classified as consumption by the general government. It is said that the government 'consumes its own production'. The system of national accounts demands that all that is produced is also consumed (or serves as an investment). By convention, government output is consumed by the government itself. This is not the only consumption by the general government. It also contains social transfers in kind. In the Netherlands this mainly concerns health care bills paid for by the government and an allowance for the rent.
- Total
- Households
- Consumption expenditure by households and non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs). Not all expenses made by households are seen as consumptive, households may invest as well. These investments mainly concern the purchase of houses and substantial costs on maintenance. Small costs on maintenance, indoor painting and the purchase of furniture is classified as consumption. This also applies to the purchase of cars and car maintenance.
- General government
- Consumption expenditure by the general government sector. The output delivered by the government which is not directly paid for, non-market output (like safety), is classified as consumption by the government. It is said that the government 'consumes its own production'. The system of national accounts demands that all that is produced is also consumed (or serves as an investment). By convention, government output is consumed by the government itself. This is not the only consumption by the general government. Purchases by general government of goods and services produced by market producers that are supplied to households as social transfers in kind are part of government consumption as well. Examples of this in the Netherlands are health care bills paid for by the government and an allowance for the rent.
Government output consumed by the government is classified into collective consumption and individual consumption. Collective consumption by the government consists of services for collective consumption that are provided simultaneously to all members of the community. Examples of this are expenses on defense, environmental health or public governance. Individual consumption is made up of expenses that serve only part of the community. This concerns mainly education.
- Gross capital formation
- Gross capital formation consists of:
a) Expenditure on produced assets that are used in a production process for more than one year. This may concern a building, dwelling, transport equipment or a machine. This in contrast with goods and services which are used up during the production process, the so-called intermediate use (e.g. iron ore). Fixed capital does lose value over time as a result of normal wear and tear and obsolescence. This is called consumption of fixed capital (also called depreciation). The value of fixed capital formation in which the consumption of fixed capital is not deducted is called gross fixed capital formation. Deduction of the consumption of fixed capital results in net fixed capital formation.
b) changes in inventories.
c) acquisitions less disposals of valuables.