Netherlands's electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output) was 3.48% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 1.3 percentage points from 4.78% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 3.48% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 3.85% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 4.78% | 2015 |
| Highest | 5.51% | 2006 |
| Lowest | 3.48% | 2025 |
| Average since 2016 | 4.14% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 5.1% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Netherlands' electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output) fell 0.32 percentage points on 2024 (from 3.8% to 3.48%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.21 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.47 percentage points in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.5 percentage points in 2019. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.12 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 78% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 3.27% for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.19%, against 0.28% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, Netherlands had the 38th highest value of the 40 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 3.48% | 2025 |
| World | 6.94% | 2023 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 7.37% | 2023 |
| High income | 5.41% | 2024 |
Closest to Netherlands in the 2025 ranking
- Australia — 35th of 40: 4.22%
- Czechia — 36th of 40: 4.14%
- Finland — 37th of 40: 3.81%
- Korea, Rep. — 39th of 40: 2.99%
- Iceland — 40th of 40: 0.95%
What this measures
Electric power transmission and distribution losses include losses in transmission between sources of supply and points of distribution and in the distribution to consumers, including pilferage. The losses are expressed as a share of the total output.
Limitations: Electricity consumption is equivalent to production less power plants' own use and transmission, distribution, and transformation losses less exports plus imports. It includes consumption by auxiliary stations, losses in transformers that are considered integral parts of those stations, and electricity produced by pumping installations. Where data are available, it covers electricity generated by primary sources of energy - coal, oil, gas, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, wind, tide and wave, and combustible renewables. Neither production nor consumption data capture the reliability of supplies, including breakdowns, load factors, and frequency of outages.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average using total electricity production as weights.
All 36 values
| Year | Electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.48 |
| 2024 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 4.13 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2021 | 3.93 |
| 2020 | 3.85 |
| 2019 | 4.17 |
| 2018 | 4.66 |
| 2017 | 4.62 |
| 2016 | 4.72 |
| 2015 |
Electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output) in nearby economies
- Albania — 18.05% (2024)
- Armenia — 5.09% (2024)
- Austria — 4.26% (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 7.93% (2024)
- Belarus — 6.57% (2024)
- Belgium — 4.52% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 7.93% (2024)
- Bulgaria — 6% (2024)
- Croatia
More environment data for Netherlands
- Population in largest city — 1.19 million (2025)
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 6.85% (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million — 2.22 million (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 12.25% (2025)
- Rural population — 734,613 (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 4.06% (2025)
- Urban population — 17.35 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 95.94% (2025)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 33,376 (2024)
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Questions people ask
- What is Netherlands's electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output)?
- 3.48% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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