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The city is a label: every national figure here is Netherlands's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.

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Benefit standard or reference budget

What the state pays as a basic benefit, or prices a basket of essentials at.

€1,747a month · 2025

Excluding housing €1,111

Monthly spending at social-assistance level, one adult, national (not Amsterdam-specific), the July 2025 edition.

  • Housing: a component of the budget: Rent €636, 'a rent that often occurs for this household'
  • In euros, no conversion
  • Nibud, 2025

What the figure is made of

Rent · €636 · 36.4%All 12 parts
  • Rent€636 36.4%
  • Health insurance€179 10.3%
  • Energy€143 8.2%
  • Reserves€219 12.5%
  • Food€272 15.6%
  • Other household costs€38 2.2%
  • Social participation€128 7.3%
  • Phone, TV and internet€64 3.7%
  • Other insurance€26 1.5%
  • Water€17 1.0%
  • Transport€22 1.3%
  • Bank€3 0.2%

No earlier edition of this benefit standard is on file on the same method, so there is no change since an earlier year to show.

The whole record

Stock market

At 209 in September 2026, more than double its 2015 level, in euros and before inflation.

House prices, after inflation

34% above 2010, and at its peak.

The economy

Inflation, one year
3.2%
2025
Average spending per person
€2,342 a month
2025
Income per person, adjusted for local prices
$85,480
2025
Unemployment
3.9%
2025
Life expectancy
82 years
2024

What the economy is made of

What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.

  • Services 70.4%
  • Industry 17.7% (manufacturing 10.1%)
  • Agriculture 1.7%
  • Taxes less subsidies 10.2%
How this is calculated
Benefit standard or reference budget
Minimum example budget (minimumvoorbeeldbegrotingen) is Netherlands's own method: Nibud's example budget for a household living on a social-assistance income. It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.
Prices
No carry-forward. The survey (2025) is not older than Netherlands's latest CPI year (2025), so nothing is carried: a year of inflation not yet published is not guessed. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.
In euros
Netherlands uses the euro: no conversion. the euro.
Stock market
OECD via FRED SPASTT01NLM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in euros and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.
House prices, after inflation
BIS via FRED QNLR628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to Netherlands's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. Latest 2026-Q1.
Sources

Nibud, Minimumvoorbeeldbegrotingen juli 2025 (the single-adult budget, as republished by NVVK) · the published figures were read from the NVVK copy; Nibud supplies the budgets as datasets, with no public download · retrieved 14 Oct 2026

Nibud, Referentiebegrotingen: what a minimum example budget is · the product page; it states the method and that the budgets are made for any household type, but carries no figures · retrieved 17 Oct 2026

Next release: Nibud draws the budgets up every year, so a 2026 edition may already exist: it was not found on nibud.nl on 17 Oct 2026

World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.