That’s a stark contrast to the entire province of Limburg, the head of North Holland and Delfzijl area, where the increase since 2008 is more than 8 percent. Central Limburg, with cities such as Roermond and Weert, in league with +9.2 percent the crown.

In the ‘second tier’ of most aging regions are East Brabant, the Achterhoek parts of Drenthe and Zeeland -Vlaanderen

Zeeland Flanders is hardly grayer the last twenty years has become, but the region has the highest proportion of over-65s: a whopping 24.2 percent. Delfzijl and surroundings follows with 23 percent of place two

The extreme southwest of the country is also a leader with the share of over-80s:. 6.1 percent of the population Abraham and Sarah did thirty years behind him . In second place is – surprisingly – the Gooi and Vecht. Around Hilversum, Blaricum and Laren is 5.7 percent of the population 80-plus.

Of all the Dutch are 18.2 percent the past 65 years. That’s 4.9 percent more than in 1995.