Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
100 birthday candles
100 birthday candles - Credit: Photo: efesama/DepositPhotos
Health
population
Schiermonnioog
Friesland
Zeeland
Noord-Brabant
100-year-old
Statistics Netherlands
CBS
Wednesday, 12 June 2019 - 19:45
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Netherlands counts 2,189 residents over 100 years of age

At the start of the year, 2,189 people living in the Netherlands were over 100 years of age, of which 85 percent were women. The total number of centenarians faced a 1.6 percent decline from 2017 figures, but it was still slightly better than last year and well over 13-times more than 1970's official numbers.

If figures continue along the steady trend since 1970, the Netherlands could have 3,520 residents over a hundred years of age by 2030. Statistics Netherlands estimated that 2,811 of those were expected to be women.

The stats agency said there was an average of 2.7 people over a hundred years old for every thousand people over 80 in each municipality. Of all 355 Dutch municipalities, 317 have at least one resident with a centenarian.

The Frisian island of Schiermonnikoog had the most people aged 100-and-up relative to their population, with 67.

At the southwestern end of the Netherlands, Zeeland had the highest proportion of 100-plus people compared to the other 11 Dutch provinces. Noord-Brabant had the fewest.

The number of 100-year-olds in the Netherlands doubled over a 17-year period beginning in 2000.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Jumbo stopping Max Verstappen sponsorship after this Formula 1 season
  • Wettest spring since 2006; Good for groundwater levels
  • Dutch MP's want Twitter to act against harassment of journalists
  • Van Gogh Museum celebrates 50th birthday with free sunflower festival
  • Dutch head of prominent TEFAF art fair suddenly resigns after controversial tweets surface
  • Police appoint controversial mosque infiltrator to fight discrimination

Top stories

  • Jumbo stopping Max Verstappen sponsorship after this Formula 1 season
  • Wettest spring since 2006; Good for groundwater levels
  • Ajax coach John Heitinga out as team's manager after worst finish in 14 years
  • Defense attorney Inez Weski, who represented Ridouan Taghi, to be released from jail
  • Job growth expected to stall in the Netherlands next year
  • Quarter of young adults in Netherlands overweight

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content