Avoidable (preventable + treatable) mortality

183/100k→change: 1y -9 /100k · 5y -10 /100k · 10y -27 /100kas of 2023B source confidenceborn

Avoidable mortality — NetherlandsNetherlandsPreventableTreatable

⌇ 2020: COVID-19 counts as a preventable cause from 2020 — a change in what the series contains, not only in care outcomes

Avoidable mortality, per 100k (Eurostat, from 2011)NetherlandsAustriaBelgiumGermanyDenmarkEU-27+3 more (hover)

Peer lines share one grey on purpose: hover for countries. The compared series can differ slightly from the Dutch definition above.

Position among the same 8 countries, year by year1 = highest value

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Eurostat's definition counts a death as avoidable when 'all or most' deaths from that cause could in principle be avoided — a convention about causes of death, not a judgment that each recorded death was preventable in practice.
— Eurostat (its own definition notes) · Eurostat Statistics Explained: preventable and treatable mortality
The list of qualifying causes changes as medical knowledge and health policy evolve — Eurostat states the list is 'subject to change' and revised it in November 2019. From 2020, COVID-19 counts as a preventable cause, which changes what the series contains (marked on the chart).
— Eurostat (its own definition notes) · Eurostat Statistics Explained: preventable and treatable mortality

Source & method

Source	Eurostat hlth_cd_apr
Licence	CC BY 4.0 (Eurostat)
Trend method	OLS over last 8 annual observations, 5% significance (MBW convention)
Revisions	None recorded since 2026-07-07. Every retrieval is stored append-only; when the source restates history, the old and new values become comparable here.

Raw snapshot (JSON) · every observation keeps its retrieval timestamp and revision history in the public database.

Data table — Avoidable mortality (Netherlands)

Period	Value
2023	183
2022	192
2021	206
2020	200
2019	185
2018	193
2017	193
2016	203
2015	206
2014	201
2013	210
2012	218
2011	220