Netherlands
Netherlands in numbers
38 measures of Netherlands from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending2.2% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$27B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,582 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel41,000 people in 2020
- National power0.38% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.42% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports824 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports601 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Netherlands with…
- Netherlands vs India
- Netherlands vs China
- Netherlands vs United States
- Netherlands vs Indonesia
- Netherlands vs Pakistan
- Netherlands vs Nigeria
- Netherlands vs Brazil
- Netherlands vs Bangladesh
- Netherlands vs Russia
- Netherlands vs Ethiopia
- Netherlands vs Mexico
- Netherlands vs Japan
- Netherlands vs Egypt
- Netherlands vs Philippines
- Netherlands vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Netherlands vs Vietnam
- Netherlands vs Iran
- Netherlands vs Türkiye
- Netherlands vs Germany
- Netherlands vs Thailand
- Netherlands vs Tanzania
- Netherlands vs United Kingdom
- Netherlands vs France
- Netherlands vs South Africa
- Netherlands vs Italy
- Netherlands vs Kenya
- Netherlands vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Netherlands vs Colombia
- Netherlands vs South Korea
- Netherlands vs Sudan
- Netherlands vs Spain
- Netherlands vs Argentina
- Netherlands vs Canada
- Netherlands vs Ukraine
- Netherlands vs Uzbekistan
- Netherlands vs Saudi Arabia
- Netherlands vs Poland
- Netherlands vs Australia
- Netherlands vs Kazakhstan
- Netherlands vs Romania
- Netherlands vs Belgium
- Netherlands vs United Arab Emirates
- Netherlands vs Czechia
- Netherlands vs Portugal
- Netherlands vs Tajikistan
- Netherlands vs Sweden
- Netherlands vs Greece
- Netherlands vs Azerbaijan
- Netherlands vs Israel
- Netherlands vs Austria
- Netherlands vs Switzerland
- Netherlands vs Singapore
- Netherlands vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time