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NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 02:10
Last year, 105 people in the Netherlands died from drowning. This is evident from figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
In total, this concerns 73 residents of the Netherlands and 32 non-residents, such as tourists or temporary employees. The number of residents of the Netherlands who died from drowning has fallen for the second year in a row. Eighty residents were killed in 2021. In 2020 there were still 107.
Most of the victims (74 percent) died by drowning in open water. Twenty percent died in and around the house, such as in the bath.
In at least half of all cases, a fall into the water was the cause of the drowning. The figures do not include drowning due to traffic accidents or suicide.
Many elderly
Among the residents of the Netherlands who drowned last year, there were an above average number of over-60s. In total, it concerns thirty people aged sixty or older.
Still, drowning as a cause of death among people aged sixty or older is not common: in 2022 less than one person per 100,000 people over sixty died from drowning.
Nine drowning victims were under the age of twenty. That is also less than in previous years. According to Statistics Netherlands, drownings occur relatively more often among young people with a non-European migration background than among young people born in the Netherlands.
In the past nine years, the figure was even ten more victims per thousand inhabitants born outside Europe. The risk of drowning is three times higher among children of non-European origin under the age of ten than among peers of Dutch origin, Statistics Netherlands calculated.
2023-07-25 00:10:55
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