Netherlands PESTLE Insights – A Macroeconomic Outlook Report

Financial intermediation, real estate, and business activities contributed 28.2% to the gross value added (GVA) in 2023, followed by mining, manufacturing, and utilities (17.1%), and wholesale, retail, and hotels (15.8%). In nominal terms, the three sectors are forecast to grow by 3.6%, 4.1%, and 3.4%, respectively, in 2024.

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Utrecht accounted for 37.4% of the Netherlands’ population and contributed 42.8% of the country’s GDP in 2023, according to GlobalData.

Scope

Macroeconomic Country Outlook Reports evaluate a country's investment potential through its political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental (PESTLE) framework. This comprehensive analysis offers a holistic view of the economy, serving as a strategic tool to understand market dynamics, business potential, and operational direction. Each PESTLE factor is examined based on four parameters: current strengths, current challenges, future prospects, and future risks. These insights support strategic planning by highlighting opportunities and risks within the economy, helping businesses and investors make informed decisions. The report aims to provide a detailed understanding of the country's macroeconomic environment to facilitate effective decision-making and strategy development.

Reasons to buy

Macroeconomic Outlook Report identifies the potentials of the country as an investment destination by analyzing the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) structure.

PESTLE Insights provides 360 degree view of the economy which can be used as a strategic tool to understand the market dynamics, business potentials and direction of operations

Along with providing the country’s snapshot, the report captures the risk factors pertaining to the macroeconomic risks, political environment, legal environment, demographic and social structure effectiveness, technology & infrastructure and natural and geographic aspects that might impact business.

This report also highlights key clusters/cities which contribute significantly to the country GDP and population along with major companies’ presence in these areas.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Exhibits

Did You Know?

Country Highlights

Key Economic Updates

Country Snapshot

Political Landscape

Economic Landscape

Social Landscape

Technological Landscape

Legal Landscape

Environmental Landscape

Outlook

List of Tables

Exhibit 1: Netherlands's performance in country risk analysis in comparison to West Europe and World average

Exhibit 2: Performance overview (score: 1–100)

Exhibit 3: Broad categories and weights behind the index

Exhibit 4: Netherlands’s Stock Exchange Index – AEX Index (April 2022 – April 2023)

Exhibit 5: Netherlands exchange rate (April 2022 – April 2023)

Exhibit 6: Key sectors’ contribution to the economy

Exhibit 7: FDI flows and stock (Q1 2022–Q4 2022)

Exhibit 8: FDI inflows by region and country (Q1 2022–Q4 2022)

Exhibit 9: Key infrastructure indicators

Exhibit 10: Real GDP and household consumption growth rate (2018–25f)

Exhibit 11: Real GDP growth rate comparison (2022e)

Exhibit 12: Exports and imports growth (2018–25f)

Exhibit 13: Current account balance (2018–25f)

Exhibit 14: Top three commodity exports, % of total exports (2019–22)

Exhibit 15: Mineral fuels, oil and products, % share of the world’s total (2021)

Exhibit 16: Interest rates (May 2018 – May 2023)

Exhibit 17: Exchange rate and inflation (2018–25f)

Exhibit 18: General government net lending/borrowing (2018–25f)

Exhibit 19: General government debt (2018–25f)

Exhibit 20: Employed population and unemployment rate (2018–25f)

Exhibit 21: Average annual wages (2018–25f)

Exhibit 22: Labor index cost (2018–25f)

Exhibit 23: Rural-urban share of total population (2005, 2015, 2025)

Exhibit 24: Age-group share of total population (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025)

Exhibit 25: Gender split (2005, 2015, 2025)

Exhibit 26: Internet users as a percentage of total population, mobile penetration rate and broadband penetration rate (2022)

Exhibit 27: Number of patents granted per million population (2021)

Exhibit 28: High technology exports, % of manufactured exports (2021)

Exhibit 29: Rule of law (rankings), 2022

Exhibit 30: Corruption perceptions index (rankings) (2022)

Exhibit 31: Renewable energy capacity (2017–21)

Exhibit 32: CO2 emissions (2017–21)

List of Figures

Exhibit 1: Netherlands's performance in country risk analysis in comparison to West Europe and World average

Exhibit 2: Performance overview (score: 0–100)

Exhibit 3: Broad categories and weights behind the index

Exhibit 4: Netherlands’s Stock Exchange Index – AEX Index

Exhibit 5: Key sectors’ contribution to the economy

Exhibit 6: FDI inflows and FDI inward stock (2018–22)

Exhibit 7: Greenfield FDI projects and net cross border M&A deals (2018–22)

Exhibit 8: Key infrastructure indicators

Exhibit 9: Real GDP and household consumption growth rate (2019–26f)

Exhibit 10: Real GDP growth rate comparison (2023)

Exhibit 11: Volume of exports and imports growth (2019–26f)

Exhibit 12: Current account balance (2019–26f)

Exhibit 13: Top three commodity exports, % of total exports (2018–22)

Exhibit 14: Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation, % of world total (2022)

Exhibit 15: Interest rates (June 2020 – June 2024)

Exhibit 16: Exchange rate and inflation (2019–26f)

Exhibit 17: General government deficit (2019–26f)

Exhibit 18: General government debt (2019–26f)

Exhibit 19: Unemployment rate (2019–26f)

Exhibit 20: Labor cost index (2019–26f)

Exhibit 21: Average annual wages (2019–26f)

Exhibit 22: Rural/urban share of total population (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025f)

Exhibit 23: Age-group share of total population (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025f)

Exhibit 24: Gender split (1995, 2005, 2015, 2025f)

Exhibit 25: Internet users as a percentage of total population, mobile penetration rate and broadband penetration rate (2023)

Exhibit 26: Number of patents granted per million population (2022)

Exhibit 27: High-technology exports, % of manufactured exports (2022)

Exhibit 28: Rule of law index (rankings) (2023)

Exhibit 29: Corruption perceptions index (rankings) (2023)

Exhibit 30: Renewable energy capacity (2018–23)

Exhibit 31: CO2 emissions (2018–22)

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