Distribution of startup founders in the Netherlands 2018, by level of education

This statistic displays the distribution of startup founders in the Netherlands in 2018, by level of education. As of 2018, the majority of startup founders in the Netherlands had a degree at bachelor's level or equivalent (62.5 percent). Close to a fifth of startup founders in the Netherlands had a bachelor's degree, while a further 5.6 percent of people who founded a startup had a Ph.D. or the equivalent thereof.