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Number of hospital beds in the Netherlands from 2000 to 2022

Characteristic	Number of hospital beds
2022*	43,355
2021*	51,763
2020	50,777
2019	52,398
2018	54,871
2017	56,136
2016	58,090
2015	59,117
2014	59,795
2013	62,051
2012	63,310
2011	66,348
2010	68,450
2009	69,611
2008	69,888
2007	70,303
2006	71,860
2005	72,441
2004	72,804
2003	73,011
2002	73,814
2001	74,625
2000	76,859

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May 2025

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Netherlands

Survey time period

2000 to 2022

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Since 2000, the number of hospital beds in the Netherlands has generally declined. There were approximately 43.4 thousand beds in the Netherlands in 2022, the lowest number in the provided time interval.

Healthcare workers in the Netherlands

Although the number of healthcare beds in the Netherlands has decreased, the number of personnel working has increased. The number of healthcare workers in the Netherlands in the period 2010 to 2021 has increased by nearly two hundred thousand. In addition, the number of general practitioners amounted to nearly 16.2 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 the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2023. This proportion has been increasing overall before 2012, but since then the share has slightly decreased, and rose again during the pandemic. In comparison to other European countries, the Netherlands ranked considerably 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 that year. 