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Sixth-largest<br />

EU economy<br />

GDP in the EU (2014)<br />

Germany 2,903,790<br />

United Kingdom 2,217,872<br />

France 2,142,022<br />

Italy 1,616,047<br />

Spain 1,058,469<br />

Netherlands 653,476<br />

Sweden 436,342<br />

Poland 412,189<br />

Belgium 402,270<br />

Austria 328,996<br />

Millions of euros.<br />

Source: Eurostat, 2015.<br />

0 500.000 1.000.000 1.500.000 2.000.000 2.500.000 3.000.000<br />

In terms of surface area and population size, the Netherlands is not a<br />

particularly large country and ranks 133rd and 64st worldwide. In stark<br />

contrast, the country’s economic performance ranks much higher. The size<br />

of the economy, or the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is about 615 billion<br />

euros in 2014. The Netherlands has the seventeenth-largest economy in<br />

the world and the sixth-largest in the European Union.<br />

16 Macro indicators

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