Income, consumption, wealth of households: key figures; National Accounts
| Characteristics of households | Periods | Total amount Expenditure Final consumption expenditure (million euros) | Total amount Expenditure Actual individual consumption (million euros) | Average amount Expenditure Final consumption expenditure (1,000 euro) | Average amount Expenditure Actual individual consumption (1,000 euro) | Standardised amount Expenditure Final consumption expenditure (1,000 euro) | Standardised amount Expenditure Actual individual consumption (1,000 euro) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2021* | 354,930 | 513,496 | 42.5 | 61.5 | 28.7 | 41.5 |
| Disposable income: 1st 20%-group | 2021* | 41,655 | 73,138 | 24.9 | 43.8 | 20.1 | 35.3 |
| Disposable income: 2nd 20%-group | 2021* | 51,029 | 86,335 | 30.5 | 51.7 | 22.0 | 37.3 |
| Disposable income: 3rd 20%-group | 2021* | 67,693 | 100,753 | 40.5 | 60.3 | 26.2 | 39.1 |
| Disposable income: 4th 20%-group | 2021* | 84,639 | 115,686 | 50.7 | 69.3 | 31.3 | 42.8 |
| Disposable income: 5th 20%-group | 2021* | 109,914 | 137,584 | 65.8 | 82.4 | 40.6 | 50.8 |
| Type: Single man | 2021* | 52,296 | 64,860 | 34.9 | 43.2 | 35.0 | 43.4 |
| Type: Single woman | 2021* | 50,420 | 72,826 | 32.0 | 46.2 | 32.3 | 46.6 |
| Type: One-parent family | 2021* | 21,684 | 35,073 | 38.4 | 62.1 | 23.7 | 38.3 |
| Type: Couple, with child(ren) | 2021* | 108,077 | 167,790 | 55.4 | 86.0 | 25.1 | 38.9 |
| Type: Couple, no children | 2021* | 106,899 | 145,438 | 47.7 | 64.8 | 31.9 | 43.4 |
| Other types of households | 2021* | 15,554 | 27,509 | 30.0 | 53.1 | 20.9 | 37.0 |
| Source of income: mixed income | 2021* | 41,805 | 56,934 | 50.3 | 68.6 | 31.3 | 42.6 |
| Source of income: compensation of employ | 2021* | 203,667 | 279,322 | 48.0 | 65.8 | 29.3 | 40.2 |
| Source of income: old age benefits | 2021* | 78,888 | 129,523 | 36.5 | 60.0 | 29.6 | 48.7 |
| Source of income: other | 2021* | 30,570 | 47,717 | 27.3 | 42.6 | 21.4 | 33.3 |
| Main earner: to 35 years | 2021* | 63,305 | 85,449 | 36.3 | 49.0 | 27.6 | 37.2 |
| Main earner: 35 to 50 years | 2021* | 91,218 | 135,226 | 46.5 | 69.0 | 26.7 | 39.6 |
| Main earner: 50 to 65 years | 2021* | 111,322 | 149,070 | 48.5 | 65.0 | 30.2 | 40.4 |
| Main earner: 65 years or older | 2021* | 89,085 | 143,751 | 37.8 | 61.1 | 30.0 | 48.4 |
| Home ownership: Owner-occupied home | 2021* | 237,197 | 329,547 | 53.1 | 73.7 | 32.1 | 44.6 |
| Home ownership: Rent with rent subsidy | 2021* | 39,035 | 68,063 | 27.1 | 47.2 | 21.2 | 36.9 |
| Home ownership: Rent: no rent subsidy | 2021* | 71,023 | 101,329 | 34.3 | 48.9 | 25.9 | 37.0 |
| Home ownership: Other | 2021* | 7,675 | 14,557 | 20.9 | 39.7 | 19.4 | 36.9 |
| Net worth: 1st 20%-group | 2021* | 44,821 | 71,167 | 26.8 | 42.6 | 22.1 | 35.2 |
| Net worth: 2nd 20%-group | 2021* | 54,424 | 84,541 | 32.6 | 50.6 | 24.7 | 38.3 |
| Net worth: 3rd 20%-group | 2021* | 70,648 | 102,344 | 42.3 | 61.3 | 27.6 | 40.0 |
| Net worth: 4th 20%-group | 2021* | 83,865 | 119,268 | 50.2 | 71.4 | 30.5 | 43.4 |
| Net worth: 5th 20%-group | 2021* | 101,172 | 136,176 | 60.6 | 81.5 | 35.6 | 48.0 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||
Table explanation
This table describes the distribution of income, consumption, and wealth components of the sector households in the national accounts over different household groups. Households are identified by main source of income, living situation, household composition, age classes of the head of the household, income class by 20% groups, and net worth class by 20% groups.
Data available from: 2015.
Status of the figures:
All data are provisional.
Changes as of October 19th 2023:
The figures of 2015-2020 are revised. Results for 2021 are added to the table.
When will new figures be published?
New figures will be released in October 2024.
Description topics
- Total amount
- Expenditure
- Expenditures on goods and services that are used for the direct satisfaction of individual needs. This includes the social transfers in kind, which together with the individual expenditures result in actual individual final consumption.
- 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 are 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.
- Actual individual consumption
- Actual individual consumption of households equals social transfers in kind plus final consumption expenditure.
- Average amount
- Amount per household.
- Expenditure
- Expenditures on goods and services that are used for the direct satisfaction of individual needs. This includes the social transfers in kind, which together with the individual expenditures result in actual individual final consumption.
- 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 are 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.
- Actual individual consumption
- Actual individual consumption of households equals social transfers in kind plus final consumption expenditure.
- Standardised amount
- Amount per household converted to a single-person household.
- Expenditure
- Expenditures on goods and services that are used for the direct satisfaction of individual needs. This includes the social transfers in kind, which together with the individual expenditures result in actual individual final consumption.
- 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 are 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.
- Actual individual consumption
- Actual individual consumption of households equals social transfers in kind plus final consumption expenditure.