This statistic displays the government expenditure on social benefits in the Netherlands as share of GDP from 2007 to 2017. It shows that in 2017, the government in the Netherlands spent 20.6 percent of GDP on social benefits.
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Government expenditure on social benefits in the Netherlands from 2007 to 2017
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The source defines social benefits as follows: "Social benefits in cash or in kind, awarded to households to relieve the financial burden that result from certain risks and needs (such as illness, invalidity, disability, age, surviving relatives and unemployment).
Social benefits are divided into social benefits in cash and social benefits in kind."
* The figures for 2016 and 2017 are still provisional.
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Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. (March 26, 2018). Government expenditure on social benefits in the Netherlands from 2007 to 2017 (as share of GDP) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 05, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/530158/government-expenditure-on-social-benefits-in-the-netherlands/
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. "Government expenditure on social benefits in the Netherlands from 2007 to 2017 (as share of GDP)." Chart. March 26, 2018. Statista. Accessed July 05, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/530158/government-expenditure-on-social-benefits-in-the-netherlands/
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. (2018). Government expenditure on social benefits in the Netherlands from 2007 to 2017 (as share of GDP). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 05, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/530158/government-expenditure-on-social-benefits-in-the-netherlands/
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. "Government Expenditure on Social Benefits in The Netherlands from 2007 to 2017 (as Share of Gdp)." Statista, Statista Inc., 26 Mar 2018, https://www.statista.com/statistics/530158/government-expenditure-on-social-benefits-in-the-netherlands/
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Government expenditure on social benefits in the Netherlands from 2007 to 2017 (as share of GDP) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/530158/government-expenditure-on-social-benefits-in-the-netherlands/ (last visited July 05, 2025)
Government expenditure on social benefits in the Netherlands from 2007 to 2017 (as share of GDP) [Graph], Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, March 26, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/530158/government-expenditure-on-social-benefits-in-the-netherlands/
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