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Netherlands: Poverty Rate

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

Netherlands

Latest value

· 2025

13.40% of people

EU 16.23 · -2.8 pp vs Europe

European ranking

22 / 30

Up 3 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

18.0M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the share of people whose equivalised disposable income after social transfers is below 60% of the national median. It is a relative-income measure rather than a measure of absolute poverty.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat At-risk-of-poverty rate TESPM010

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· 2025 · 12 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Groningen

    +38.81

    18.60

  2. 2

    Noord-Holland

    +10.45

    14.80

  3. 3

    Friesland (NL)

    +7.46

    14.40

  4. 3

    Limburg (NL)

    +7.46

    14.40

  5. 5

    Zuid-Holland Centraal

    +4.48

    14.00

  6. 6

    Zeeland

    +0.75

    13.50

  7. 7

    Zuid-Holland Zuid

    -8.21

    12.30

  8. 8

    Drenthe

    -8.96

    12.20

  9. 8

    Overijssel

    -8.96

    12.20

  10. 8

    Flevoland

    -8.96

    12.20

  11. 11

    Gelderland

    -9.70

    12.10

  12. 12

    Noord-Brabant

    -13.43

    11.60

More context on this indicator

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.