Health in the Netherlands
Health Status
Life Expectancy
A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by the Lancet in September 2018. The Netherlands had the fourth highest level of expected human capital with 27 health, education, and learning-adjusted expected years lived between age 20 and 64 years. [1]
In 2025, the life expectancy in the Netherlands was 81.9 years.[2] The life expectancy of individuals in the Netherlands dropped to 81.4 years during the COVID-19 pandemic and has not recovered.[3]
Leading Causes of Death
Cancer (27.1%), cardiovascular disease (22.4%), and Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (9.9%) were the leading causes of death in 2023. There is an estimated 185,000 new cases of cardiovascular disease annually with an incidence rate that is 10% lower than the European Union (EU) average. There is approximately 116,000 new cases of cancer annually with the incidence rate of cancer being 11% greater than the EU average. Other notable causes of death include respiratory disease (8.8%), external causes (6.8%), and digestive diseases (3.2%).[3]
See also
References
- ^ Lim, Stephen; et, al. "Measuring human capital: a systematic analysis of 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016". Lancet. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ OECD (2025-11-13). "Netherlands". www.oecd.org. Retrieved 2026-02-05.
- ^ a b OECD/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2025), Country Health Profile 2025: The Netherlands. State of Health in the EU, OECD Publishing, Paris/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels.