Number of hospitals in the Netherlands 2005-2022
Unlike other developed nations, the number of hospitals in the Netherlands has actually been slowly increasing. In 2022, there were 733 hospitals in the Netherlands, the highest value in the provided time interval. The number of hospitals increased dramatically from 2008 to 2009, although there was a break in series at this point, so the source may have changed certain standards resulting in this value surge.
Healthcare workers in the Netherlands
The number of healthcare workers in the Netherlands in the period 2010 to 2021 has increased by almost 200,000. In addition, the number of general practitioners amounted to over 16 thousand in 2021 in the Netherlands, an increase of over 4 thousand since the year 2010.
Spending indicators on health
The Netherland’s expenditure on healthcare was 10.1 percent of GDP in 2023, this share had generally been increasing before 2012 and has returned to around 10 percent after the sudden increase due to the COVID pandemic. In comparison to other European countries, the Netherlands ranked fairly high on the share of GDP spent on health expenditures. Switzerland had the highest share of expenditure on health, spending 12 percent of its GDP in 2023.
