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🇳🇱 Netherlands
Kingdom of the Netherlands
NLD NL € Euro (EUR)
Every statistic we track for Netherlands — 161 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$87,773
81.0 yrs
7.22
0.77
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.4 | #170/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0 | #168/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 41.5 | #52/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 16.8 | #64/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 18.1 | #68/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 547.9 | #26/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 159 | #143/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 95.6% | #16/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 100% | #72/214 | 2024 |
| Internet Users | 97% | #17/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 115.8 | #96/209 | 2022 |
| Weekly Internet Use | 99.5% | #1/34 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| ICCS Civic Knowledge, Grade 8 | 508.3 | #11/20 | 2022 |
| ICILS Computational Thinking, Grade 8 | 440.3 | #17/21 | 2023 |
| ICILS Computer and Information Literacy, Grade 8 | 459.6 | #23/32 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 11.8 | #32/146 | 2020 |
| PIRLS Reading, Grade 4 | 527.2 | #23/53 | 2021 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 493 | #10/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 459 | #35/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 488 | #25/79 | 2022 |
| TIMSS Mathematics, Grade 4 | 537.1 | #12/55 | 2023 |
| TIMSS Science, Grade 4 | 516.9 | #26/55 | 2023 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 6.6 | #37/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 3,418 | #26/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 66.9 | #14/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 50.7% | #64/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| News Avoidance (Digital News Report) | 34% | #40/48 | 2026 |
| Paying for Online News (Digital News Report) | 15% | #17/42 | 2026 |
| Press Freedom Index | 88.9 | #2/177 | 2026 |
| Social Media as News Source (Digital News Report) | 37% | #46/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in News (Digital News Report) | 49% | #10/48 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Global Peace Index | 1.5 | #147/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 0.6 | #185/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 3.4 | #180/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 85.4% | #78/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 49.6% | #61/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 2.2 | #74/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 22.3% | #88/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 8.9% | #52/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 2.5 | #151/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 64.6 | #20/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 4.5 | #96/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 73% | #50/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 7.2 | #7/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness (EVS) | 92.2% | #7/36 | 2017–2020 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1 | #41/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 2 | #8/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.2 | #13/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.9 | #28/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.3 | #12/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.5 | #25/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 1 | #9/193 | 2023 |
| Life Satisfaction (Eurobarometer) | 93.8% | #6/34 | 2024 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Acceptance of Homosexuality (EVS) | 87.6% | #3/36 | 2017–2020 |
| Attended a Demonstration | 11.5% | #74/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 76.5% | #107/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 67.6% | #110/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 80 | #6/65 | 2010 |
| Interpersonal Trust (EVS) | 59.5% | #6/36 | 2017–2020 |
| Left–Right Self-placement | 5.1 | #42/53 | 2011–2024 |
| Long-term Orientation | 44 | #12/26 | 2010 |
| Masculinity | 14 | #63/65 | 2010 |
| Power Distance | 38 | #52/65 | 2010 |
| Secular Values | 0.5 | #10/64 | 2022 |
| Self-Expression Values | 0.7 | #2/64 | 2022 |
| Signed a Petition | 34.8% | #17/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 22.8% | #19/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 5 | #45/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.1 | #51/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in People (ESS) | 6 | #6/38 | 2023 |
| Trust in political parties | 4.7 | #19/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 85.9% | #30/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 81.9% | #29/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.6 | #47/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 53 | #45/65 | 2010 |
| Voting Makes a Difference | 70.3% | #24/54 | 2011–2024 |
| Who Is in Power Makes a Difference | 73.2% | #15/51 | 2011–2021 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.