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Netherlands: At-risk-of-poverty rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Netherlands Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Netherlands

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

13.40 Percent of people

European ranking

23 / 30

Worsened by 3 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-1.9 puntos

Netherlands is 1.9 points below the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 2.42 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

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Latest: 13.40 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Groningen

    +38.80

    18.60

  2. 2

    Noord-Holland

    +10.40

    14.80

  3. 3

    Friesland (NL)

    +7.50

    14.40

  4. 4

    Limburg (NL)

    +7.50

    14.40

  5. 5

    Zuid-Holland Centraal

    +4.50

    14.00

  6. 6

    Zeeland

    +0.70

    13.50

  7. 7

    Zuid-Holland Zuid

    -8.20

    12.30

  8. 8

    Drenthe

    -9.00

    12.20

  9. 9

    Overijssel

    -9.00

    12.20

  10. 10

    Flevoland

    -9.00

    12.20

  11. 11

    Gelderland

    -9.70

    12.10

  12. 12

    Noord-Brabant

    -13.40

    11.60

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At a glance

Netherlands performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Netherlands

In Netherlands, Poverty risk is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 13.4% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 2.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In the Netherlands, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 13.40% in 2020 to 13.40% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 12.10% in 2024 to 13.40% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Netherlands

In Netherlands, Poverty risk shows noticeable regional variation. Across 12 comparable regions, Groningen records the highest value (18.6%) and Noord-Brabant the lowest (11.6%), a gap of 7 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Netherlands, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.