12 provinces · 2025
BUDGET met?
5 of 12Dutch provinces spent no more in 2025 than the budget their provincial council adopted.
Every autumn a provincial council adopts the budget for the year ahead; after the year come the accounts. Both are published in one format, line by line, since 2017. Together the provinces budgeted €7,773 m for 2025 and spent €7,974 m: +2.6%. Their income moved +24% from its budget.
spent €7,974 m
over budget in 4 of the 9 years since 2017
€8,535 m received against €6,897 m budgeted
Noord-Brabant
12 provinces · 2017–2025 · 227 reports · 79,585 filled lines · spending on the budget scale: under ← within 2% → over
All twelve · 2025
Every province against its budget
Each province's spending against the budget its provincial council adopted, as a share of that budget. Those who broke the rules first, then the highest gap. Click a province for its page.
Policy areas · 2025
Where the money went
The provinces' nine main policy areas, totalled over those that filed both reports: what was budgeted, against what the accounts say was spent.
| Policy area | Budget 2025 | Spent | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| General revenue and overheadAlgemene dekkingsmiddelen en overhead | €1,209 m | €1,181 m | −2.3% |
| Governance and safetyBestuur | €258 m | €286 m | +11% |
| Roads and transportVerkeer en vervoer | €2,885 m | €2,904 m | +0.7% |
| Water | €248 m | €150 m | −40% |
| EnvironmentMilieu | €640 m | €727 m | +14% |
| NatureNatuur | €1,126 m | €1,158 m | +2.8% |
| Regional economyRegionale economie | €601 m | €763 m | +27% |
| Culture and societyCultuur en maatschappij | €476 m | €501 m | +5.1% |
| Spatial planning and housingRuimte | €329 m | €304 m | −7.4% |
Year by year
Year by year
Spending against the budget, for all provinces together, and how many of them stayed within what they had adopted. Amendments passed during the year are part of the gap.
Spending against the budget
Who stayed within the budget
| Year | Listed | Within budget | Rules broken | Budgeted | Spent | Gap | Income gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | 542% | 0 | €7,773 m | €7,974 m | +2.6% | +24% |
| 2024 | 12 | 650% | 0 | €7,159 m | €7,198 m | +0.5% | +27% |
| 2023 | 12 | 975% | 0 | €6,821 m | €6,762 m | −0.9% | +17% |
| 2022 | 12 | 867% | 0 | €6,498 m | €6,321 m | −2.7% | +19% |
| 2021 | 12 | 867% | 0 | €6,048 m | €5,925 m | −2.0% | +20% |
| 2020 | 12 | 867% | 0 | €5,889 m | €5,834 m | −0.9% | +16% |
| 2019 | 12 | 758% | 1 | €5,135 m | €5,187 m | +1.0% | +13% |
| 2018 | 12 | 433% | 0 | €5,550 m | €5,896 m | +6.2% | +17% |
| 2017 | 12 | 650% | 0 | €5,484 m | €5,408 m | −1.4% | +20% |
Look up · 2025
All 12 provinces
Every province: its budget against its accounts in 2025, its income's gap, and how often its spending came out over budget. Sort on a column, or click a province for its page.
Click a column's head to sort.
| Province | Budget 2025 | Spent | Gap | Income gap | Years over | 2017–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noord-Brabant | €1,012 m | €1,162 m | +15% | +57% | 3 of 9 | |
| Overijssel | €556 m | €632 m | +14% | +29% | 6 of 9 | |
| Zuid-Holland | €1,059 m | €1,155 m | +9.1% | +11% | 1 of 9 | |
| Limburg | €605 m | €646 m | +6.7% | +19% | 8 of 9 | |
| Zeeland | €308 m | €325 m | +5.7% | +42% | 4 of 9 | |
| Gelderland | €954 m | €991 m | +3.9% | +15% | 3 of 9 | |
| Flevoland | €243 m | €243 m | +0.1% | +14% | 3 of 9 | |
| Noord-Holland | €743 m | €712 m | −4.2% | +16% | 1 of 9 | |
| Utrecht | €689 m | €650 m | −5.8% | +19% | 6 of 9 | |
| Drenthe | €416 m | €382 m | −8.3% | +20% | 3 of 9 | |
| Groningen | €639 m | €585 m | −8.4% | +25% | 5 of 9 | |
| Fryslân | €549 m | €490 m | −11% | +16% | 3 of 9 |
Method
How this was measured
Every number on this site comes from what the provinces report themselves. Nothing is estimated or imputed; where data is missing or wrong, the page says so.
The reports
Every province files its budget and its accounts in one standard format: every policy area against every kind of cost and income, unedited, as public data. We read every filing since 2017: 227 reports, 79,585 filled lines.
Budget and actual
Budget is the primary budget the provincial council adopts before the year — the plan before the year begins. Actual is the annual accounts. Amendments during the year are not in what provinces file, so they are part of the gap.
What counts as spending
All costs (lasten) and income (baten) on the policy areas, as the BBV rules total them before reserves. Left out: the two lines that move money rather than spend it, reserve movements (0.8) and the year's result (0.9). Amounts are those of the latest release.
The rules
Every province must file its budget and its accounts, and file them right. A year without both reports leaves nothing to hold the plan against; a report whose negative spending lines add up to more than 5% of its total is a filing error. Both count as a budget not met and rank first. In 2017–2025: 1 years without both reports, 0 with a filing error.
Public data
Budgets and accounts, population: CBS, CC BY 4.0. Compiled, checked and published by DopeCode. Updated 3 November 2026; the figures are fetched again whenever new reports are out.