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Netherlands: Health System Facts

Netherlands: Health System Facts

Netherlands Health System Overview
Health System Rankings
Outcomes
Health System Coverage
Costs for Consumers
Health System Expenditures
Netherlands COVID-19 Policy

Health System Financing
Health System Personnel
Health System Physical Resources and Utilization
Long-Term Care
Health Information and Communications Technologies
Medical Training
Pharmaceuticals

Political System
Economic System
Population Demographics
Health System History and Development
Health System Future Challenges


Demographics

Population: 17,097,000
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019: Data Booklet (ST/ESA/SER.A/424). More information here.

Health System Facts: Coverage

Population Health Coverage (%): 99.9%
Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en. More information here.

Health System: Costs

Health Expenditure as Portion of GDP (%): 10.4%
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.

Health Expenditure Per Capita (US$): $4,742
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.

Annual Out of Pocket Spending Per Capita (US$): $545
Source: Global Health Expenditure Database. Health expenditure series. Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed Nov. 14, 2020. More information here.

Health System: Outcomes

Care Ranking: 6
Source: GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators. “Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.” Lancet (London, England) vol. 392,10159 (2018): 2091-2138. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32281-5. More information here.

Life Expectancy: 81.6 years
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.

Infant Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births): 3
Source: UNICEF (2019). The State of the World’s Children 2019. Children, Food and Nutrition: Growing well in a changing world. UNICEF, New York. More information here.

Medical Personnel

Doctors Per 10,000 Population: 36.1
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.

Nurses Per 10,000 Population: 111.8
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.


Health Systems Facts is a project of the Real Reporting Foundation. We provide reliable statistics and other data from authoritative sources regarding health systems in the US and several other nations.


Page last updated Nov. 18, 2020 by Doug McVay, Editor.

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