What do Dutch people think about free trade?
Sovereignty axis · 🇳🇱 Netherlands · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published Dutch reading yet. DataRadio holds 81 Dutch answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 19 more answers are needed. The world reading is below, and it takes about a minute to make this page say something.
Where Netherlands sits on sovereignty
What is measured about Netherlands on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Trade openness
World Bank national accounts · 2025
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150.1% |
higher than most countries
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Foreign direct investment
IMF Balance of Payments · 2024
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-1.4% |
among the lowest in the world
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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$71,378 |
among the highest in the world
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on free trade
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · Trade deals mostly help the rich and cost ordinary workers.
B · Trade deals help ordinary people more than they hurt them.
World, unweighted: 55% A ·
19% neither ·
26% B · n = 3926
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🇳🇱 n=81 of 100 |
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A · We should buy things from whoever makes them best and cheapest, wherever they are.
B · We should protect our own key industries, even if that means we pay more at home.
World, unweighted: 23% A ·
20% neither ·
56% B · n = 3980
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🇳🇱 n=85 of 100 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- Netherlands public opinion on free trade
- Free trade poll netherlands
- What do dutch people think about free trade
- What percentage of dutch people support free trade
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.