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According to figures released this week by Statistics Netherlands, the percentage of people in the Netherlands reporting that they have diabetes has risen substantially since the beginning of this...

The proportion of people in relatively poor mental health had dropped to 9 percent in 2008. The reduction was mainly recorded in the female population.

In recent years, the Dutch have adopted a more healthy lifestyle. The percentage of smokers and heavy drinkers has marginally declined.

In 2013, 141,245 people in the Netherlands died, most of them from cancer and cardiovascular disease: 30 percent and 27 percent respectively. Causes of death were partly coded automatically in 2013.

On 1 May last year, 171 thousand (1.0 percent) of Dutch residents had no health insurance.

On 1 May 2010 136 thousand people living in the Netherlands were not insured for medical costs. This is 10 percent fewer than twelve months previously.

Over the past three decades, the proportion of overweight people in the Netherlands has grown among adults as well as among 4 to 20-year-olds.

The international and national measures introduced in March in response to the COVID-19 outbreak have resulted in a lower influx of asylum seekers and following family members.

Proportionally, the unemployment increase among people with a non-western background was the same in 2010 as in the native Dutch population.

In November 2020 the Dutch retail sector recorded 9.6 percent year-on-year turnover growth.

Fewer young people own are cars, but the car ownership rate among older people is growing. The total number of cars, mopeds and motorcycles in the Netherlands is still growing, though less rapidly.

In 2006, one in forty people in the Netherlands lived in areas where the concentration of fine particles in the air was too high. High concentrations of fine particles can damage people’s health.

Changes in employed and unemployed labour force, November 2017

In March and April of this year, altogether 6,331 deaths in the Netherlands were confirmed to have been due to COVID-19

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Tthere were 304 thousand people who defaulted on the Dutch health insurance payments on 1 September 2009.

The number of over-65s is expected to rise from 2.5 million in 2009 to 4.2 million in 2050.

Obese and underweight persons are more often depressive than people in the normal body weight range.

In the period 2010-2012, an average of nearly 1 million people reported to have consulted alternative healers in the past year, i.e. nearly 6 percent in the Dutch population. Acupuncture treatments...

In regions where the population has shrunk over the period 2005-2008, people’s socio-economic conditions have worsened.