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Netherlands: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

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

Country: Netherlands Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Netherlands

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

15.80 Percent of people

European ranking

27 / 30

Compared with Europe

-4.2 puntos

Netherlands is 4.2 points below the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 2.85 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 15.80 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Groningen

    +41.80

    22.40

  2. 2

    Zuid-Holland Centraal

    +8.90

    17.20

  3. 3

    Limburg (NL)

    +8.90

    17.20

  4. 4

    Noord-Holland

    +7.00

    16.90

  5. 5

    Zuid-Holland Zuid

    —

    15.80

  6. 6

    Overijssel

    —

    15.80

  7. 7

    Friesland (NL)

    -5.70

    14.90

  8. 8

    Gelderland

    -11.40

    14.00

  9. 9

    Flevoland

    -12.00

    13.90

  10. 10

    Zeeland

    -12.70

    13.80

  11. 11

    Noord-Brabant

    -14.60

    13.50

  12. 12

    Drenthe

    -15.80

    13.30

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Netherlands performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 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 or exclusion is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 15.8% versus 20.4% in 2025, with a gap of 4.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In the Netherlands, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 16.00% in 2020 to 15.80% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 15.40% in 2024 to 15.80% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Netherlands

In Netherlands, Poverty or exclusion shows noticeable regional variation. Across 12 comparable regions, Groningen records the highest value (22.4%) and Drenthe the lowest (13.3%), a gap of 9.1 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.