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Netherlands

Headline economic indicators for Netherlands, with the most recent official readings.

Prices

Prices — Netherlands
Indicator Value Change
Inflation rate · 3.2% -0.14 (-4.3%)
Consumer price index · 146.8 +4.56 (+3.2%)
Inflation rate (monthly) · 3.0% +0.20 (+7.1%)
Harmonised consumer price index · 141.1 -0.17 (-0.1%)
House price index (quarterly) · 198.3 +1.94 (+1.0%)
House price inflation, year on year (quarterly) · 5.1% -1.01 (-16.4%)
Real house price index (quarterly) · 133.8 +1.24 (+0.9%)
Real house price growth, year on year (quarterly) · 2.6% -0.55 (-17.8%)
Producer prices, year on year (monthly) · 9.4% +1.80 (+23.7%)
GDP deflator inflation · 3.3% -2.35 (-41.4%)

GDP

GDP — Netherlands
Indicator Value Change
GDP growth rate · 1.8% +0.71 (+66.2%)
GDP per capita · 73,683.92 +6,219 (+9.2%)
GDP growth, quarter on quarter · 0.6% -0.10 (-14.3%)
GDP growth, year on year (quarterly) · 2.1% +0.30 (+16.7%)
Industrial production, year on year (monthly) · 9.8% +1.00 (+11.4%)
Retail sales volume, year on year (monthly) · 1.2% -1.00 (-45.5%)
Economic sentiment indicator (monthly) · 100.0 -3.40 (-3.3%)
Consumer confidence (monthly) · -19.0 -3.00 (-18.8%)
GDP per capita, long-run history · 49,670 +1,668 (+3.5%)
GDP · 1,332,767,651,100.39 +118,831,413,037 (+9.8%)
GDP, PPP · 1,579,414,785,563 +46,039,342,419 (+3.0%)
GDP per capita, PPP · 87,320 +2,102 (+2.5%)
GDP per capita growth · 1.3% +0.83 (+198.7%)
GNI per capita · 68,530 +6,030 (+9.6%)
Agriculture to GDP · 1.7% -0.05 (-2.8%)
Industry to GDP · 17.7% +0.14 (+0.8%)
Manufacturing to GDP · 10.1% +0.01 (+0.1%)
Services to GDP · 70.4% -0.06 (-0.1%)
Household consumption to GDP · 43.1% -0.44 (-1.0%)
Gross capital formation to GDP · 19.8% +0.15 (+0.7%)
Gross savings to GDP · 27.7% -1.19 (-4.1%)

Labour

Labour — Netherlands
Indicator Value Change
Unemployment rate · 3.9% +0.17 (+4.7%)
Unemployment rate (monthly) · 4.0% +0.00 (+0.0%)
Labour force participation rate · 67.2% -0.21 (-0.3%)
Female labour force participation rate · 62.7% -0.17 (-0.3%)
Youth unemployment rate · 8.8% +0.05 (+0.6%)
Employment to population ratio · 64.6% -0.32 (-0.5%)
Employment in agriculture · 1.7% -0.04 (-2.4%)
Employment in industry · 13.8% -0.26 (-1.9%)
Employment in services · 84.5% +0.31 (+0.4%)

Money

Money — Netherlands
Indicator Value Change
Real interest rate · 0.4% +0.06 (+20.2%)
Central bank policy rate · 2.7% +0.25 (+10.4%)
ECB deposit facility rate · 2.5% +0.25 (+11.1%)
Real effective exchange rate (monthly) · 106.1 -0.66 (-0.6%)
Nominal effective exchange rate (monthly) · 104.5 -0.29 (-0.3%)
Private sector credit to GDP (quarterly) · 263.4% -0.46 (-0.2%)
Credit-to-GDP gap (quarterly) · -47.24 pp +2.62 (+5.3%)
Debt service ratio, private sector (quarterly) · 26.1% -0.10 (-0.4%)
Debt service ratio, households (quarterly) · 13.1% +0.10 (+0.8%)
Debt service ratio, non-financial corporations (quarterly) · 49.8% -0.40 (-0.8%)
Cost of borrowing for house purchase (monthly) · 3.9% +0.06 (+1.6%)
Cost of borrowing for corporations (monthly) · 3.0% -0.07 (-2.3%)
10-year government bond yield (monthly) · 3.6% +0.28 (+8.5%)
Private sector credit to GDP · 82.4% -3.08 (-3.6%)
Lending rate · 1.5% -0.13 (-7.7%)
Bank deposit rate · 2.4% -0.30 (-10.9%)
Stock market capitalization to GDP · 129.7% +28.62 (+28.3%)
Bank nonperforming loans · 1.4% -0.20 (-12.0%)
Official exchange rate · 0.88 -0.04 (-4.2%)

Trade

Trade — Netherlands
Indicator Value Change
Current account to GDP · 7.6% -0.14 (-1.8%)
Exports to GDP · 80.7% -1.83 (-2.2%)
Imports to GDP · 69.5% -2.01 (-2.8%)
Trade to GDP · 150.1% -3.84 (-2.5%)
Exports of goods and services · 1,075,134,885,755.68 +73,665,604,186 (+7.4%)
Imports of goods and services · 925,615,517,034.12 +58,153,596,540 (+6.7%)
Trade balance, goods and services (annual) · 138,727,374,125.27 +18,944,890,238 (+15.8%)
Current account balance (annual) · 101,046,518,092.93 +7,332,769,819 (+7.8%)
Foreign direct investment to GDP · 0.3% +0.77 (+163.8%)
Remittances received to GDP · 0.4% +0.01 (+1.6%)
Total reserves, including gold · 118,056,683,477.99 +38,927,074,192 (+49.2%)
Reserves in months of imports · 1.0 +0.30 (+42.8%)

Government

Government — Netherlands
Indicator Value Change
Government debt to GDP · 54.2% -2.23 (-4.0%)
Government debt to GDP (quarterly) · 43.7% -0.10 (-0.2%)
Government revenue to GDP · 39.4% +0.02 (+0.0%)
Government expense to GDP · 40.0% +0.60 (+1.5%)
Tax revenue to GDP · 25.3% +0.04 (+0.1%)
Government budget balance to GDP · -0.6% -0.40 (-192.1%)
Government consumption to GDP · 25.9% +0.12 (+0.5%)
Education spending to GDP · 5.2% -0.20 (-3.7%)
Health spending to GDP · 10.0% +0.17 (+1.8%)

Demography

Demography — Netherlands
Indicator Value Change
Population · 18,087,633 +94,148 (+0.5%)
Population, long-run history · 17,709 +170.06 (+1.0%)
Population growth · 0.5% -0.13 (-19.6%)
Life expectancy · 82.0 +0.10 (+0.1%)
Fertility rate · 1.43 +0.00 (+0.0%)
Birth rate · 9.2 +0.00 (+0.0%)
Death rate · 9.6 +0.10 (+1.1%)
Urban population share · 95.9% +0.30 (+0.3%)
Population aged 65 and over · 20.9% +0.37 (+1.8%)
Under-five mortality rate · 3.9 +0.00 (+0.0%)
Population density · 534.4 +3.46 (+0.7%)
Net migration · 104,681 -16,947 (-13.9%)
Gini index · 25.7 -0.30 (-1.2%)

Source: Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Translated titles are not official BIS translations.

Source: ECB

Source: ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

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