Netherlands: number of jobs, by sector 2021

This statistic displays the number of jobs in the Netherlands in 2021, by sector, in thousands. As of 2021, the three sectors with the largest number of employees were the health and social work sector, wholesale and retail trade sector and the renting and other business support services sector. As of 2021, there were almost 1.5 million jobs in the health and social work sector in the Netherlands.

Number of jobs in the Netherlands in 2021, by sector (in 1,000 jobs)

Characteristic	Jobs in thousands
Health and social work activities	1,473
Wholesale and retail trade	1,434
Renting and other business support	1,009
Manufacturing	767
Education	562
Public administration and services	556
Other specialised business services	542
Transportation and storage	391
Accommodation and food serving	386
Construction	343
Information and communication	312
Financial institutions	278
Other service activities	130
Culture, sports and recreation	129
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	114
Renting, buying, selling real estate	69
Water supply and waste management	37
Electricity and gas supply	32
Mining and quarrying	8

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Release date

October 2022

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Netherlands

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

The source adds: "an employed person may have more than one job at a time. In that case the person has a main job and a secondary job. Each job counts separately. For the calculation of the average number of jobs in a certain period the starting date and end date of a job is taking into account. The weekly working hours are left out of account. Two successive jobs both with a 6-month working period will always count as one job in the average number of jobs, regardless of whether these jobs are full-time or part-time."

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