In 2017, there were 545 hospitals in the Netherlands, the highest value in the provided time interval. The number of hospitals increased dramatically from 2008 to 2009, although there was a break in series at this point, so the source may have changed certain standards resulting in this value surge. 

Healthcare workers in the Netherlands

The number of healthcare workers in the Netherlands in the period 2000 to 2017 has increased by almost four hundred thousand. In addition, the number of general practitioners amounted to over 14.6 thousand in 2017 in the Netherlands, an increase of almost five thousand since the year 2000.

Spending indicators on health

The Netherland’s expenditure on healthcare was 10.1 percent of GDP in 2017, this share had generally been increasing before 2012 but since then the share has slightly decreased. In comparison to other European countries, the Netherlands ranked fairly high on the share of GDP spent on health expenditures. Switzerland had the highest share of expenditure on health, spending 12.2 percent of its GDP in this year.