What do Dutch people think about gender identity?
Social axis · 🇳🇱 Netherlands · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
69% of Dutch respondents take the position “Whether you are a man or a woman is for you to say.”, against 12% for “Whether you are a man or a woman is set at birth.”, with 19% choosing neither. n = 115, margin of error ±9.4, weighted to Netherlands's adult population.
Where Netherlands sits on social
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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Urban population
UN World Urbanization Prospects · 2025
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95.9% |
among the highest in the world
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Tertiary enrolment
UNESCO UIS · 2023
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86.6% |
higher than most countries
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Using the internet
ITU · 2024
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97.0% |
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 gender identity
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 · Whether you are a man or a woman is set at birth.
B · Whether you are a man or a woman is for you to say.
World, unweighted: 46% A ·
21% neither ·
33% B · n = 4753
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69% B 🇳🇱 n=115 |
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 gender identity
- Gender identity poll netherlands
- What do dutch people think about gender identity
- What percentage of dutch people support gender identity
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.