Netherlands: percentage of population living alone 2007-2016

This graph shows the percentage of the Dutch population that lives in a single-person household 2007 to 2016. During this ten year period there was an overall increase of 1.9 percent. The peak was in 2016 at 17.5 percent.

Share of the Netherlands' population living in a single-person household from 2007 to 2016

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Release date

October 2017

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Region

Netherlands

Survey time period

2007 to 2016

Supplementary notes

* Provisional data.
** Break in time series.

The source adds the following information: "A 'private household' means "a person living alone or a group of people who live together in the same private dwelling and share expenditures, including the joint provision of the essentials of living". EU-SILC implementing regulation number 1983/2003 on updated definitions, defines households in terms of sharing household expenses and (for non-permanent members) in terms of duration of stay and (for temporarily absent members) in terms of duration of absence."