Hospital beds in the Netherlands 2000-2021

Since 2000, the number of hospital beds in the Netherlands has generally declined. There were approximately 51.8 thousand beds in the Netherlands in 2021, the lowest number in the provided time interval, except the previous year of 2020.

Healthcare workers in the Netherlands

Although the number of healthcare beds in the Netherlands has decreased, the number of personnel working has increased. The number of healthcare workers in the Netherlands in the period 2010 to 2021 has increased by nearly two hundred thousand. In addition, the number of general practitioners amounted to nearly 16.2 thousand in 2021 in the Netherlands, an increase of over four thousand since the year 2010.

Spending indicators on health

The Netherland’s expenditure on healthcare was 11.2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2022. This proportion has been increasing overall before 2012, but since then the share has slightly decreased, and rose again in 2020. In comparison to other European countries, the Netherlands ranked considerably high on the share of GDP spent on health expenditures. Germany had the highest share of expenditure on health, spending 12.7 percent of its GDP in that year.