On 1 January 2021, the Netherlands counted 317,000 millionaire households, 32,000 more than the year before. That’s an increase of 4 percent, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported on Monday. The primary breadwinners in these families are mostly self-employed and often in financial services, agriculture, and real estate.
The Netherlands has counted more millionaires every year since 2014. During the financial crisis in the years before, the number of millionaires remained about the same. “A million euros in 2021 had a different value than in years before,” CBS added. “If the general price development is taken into account, there were about 21,000 more millionaires in 2021 than in 2020.”