Netherlands

  • Monarch:Willem-Alexander
  • Prime Minister:Mark Rutte
  • Capital city:Amsterdam
  • Languages:Dutch (official) note: Frisian is an official language in Fryslan province; Frisian, Low Saxon, Limburgish, Romani, and Yiddish have protected status under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; Dutch is the official language of the three special municipalities of the Caribbean Netherlands, while English is a recognized regional language on Sint Eustatius and Saba and Papiamento is a recognized regional language on Bonaire
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:17,645,122 (2024)
  • Area, sq km:33,670
  • GDP per capita, US$:57,025 (2022)
  • GDP, billion current US$:1,009.4 (2022)
  • GINI index:25.7 (2021)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:42

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    • March 2024
      Source: United Nations Development Programme
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      Accessed On: 10 April, 2024
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      Data Cited at: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, Human Development Data Center The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of achievements in three key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the the three dimensions.