Netherlands in Numbers
X5

Highway congestion (vehicle-hours lost)

22.1mln km·min1y +0.3 · 5y +16.4 · 10y +8.4as of 2025B source confidence
Traffic congestion — Netherlands

Source & method

SourceRWS manual:X5
Human pagehttps://www.clo.nl/indicatoren/nl213707
LicenceRWS publication
Trend methodOLS over last 8 annual observations, 5% significance (MBW convention)
Pipeline notesVerified 6 Jul 2026: annual filezwaarte totals exist only in the RWS Rapportage Rijkswegennet PDF (open.overheid.nl) → manual drop. Raw NDW travel-time data is machine-readable but reproducing the metric requires own aggregation — out of scope.

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

Data table — Traffic congestion (Netherlands)
PeriodValue
202522.1
202421.8
202319.5
202214.4
20217.8
20205.7
201917.8
201513.7