A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by the Lancet in September 2018. The Netherlands had the fourth highest level of expected human capital with 27 health, education, and learning-adjusted expected years lived between age 20 and 64 years. [1]
In 2025, the life expectancy in the Netherlands was 81.9 years. [2] The life expectancy of individuals in the Netherlands dropped to 81.4 years during the COVID-19 pandemic and has not recovered. [3]