Government of the Netherlands

Name

Government of the Netherlands

Legal name

Government of the Netherlands

Website

https://government.nl

Company type

Public

Founded year

1815

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Administration

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (9211), Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined (92114), Other General Government Support (921190), National Security and International Affairs (928)

SIC

Foreign Governments (8888)

akta.pro primary industry

Executive Office / Cabinet Secretariat (BPAIAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Government Digital Service & eGovernment (Service Delivery, IDs, Portals) (BPAIAAAE), Development Cooperation & Foreign Aid Administration (BPAIAIAG), Democratic Governance & Public Administration Reform (BPADAGAJ)

Keywords

• Public administration services
• Government policy development
• Citizen services portal
• Public information services
• International development cooperation

Headquarters

HQ city

Den Haag

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Taxation Revenue: Government collects taxes from citizens and businesses to fund public services, infrastructure, healthcare, education, defense, and social welfare programs
2. International Development Funding: Provides financial contributions to international organizations including EUR 16 million over four years to IOM for migration governance
3. Climate Investment Programs: NIKI (Nationale Investeringsregeling Klimaatprojecten Industrie) program provides funding to companies for climate-related industrial projects, including €135 million to Reju for textile-to-textile regeneration

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Government of the Netherlands delivers public administration and citizen services through 15 ministries, providing education, healthcare, social welfare, justice, defense, taxation, infrastructure, and international cooperation. Its central digital platform government.nl (and Dutch-language rijksoverheid.nl) consolidates government news, ministry information, policy documents, parliamentary records, and life-event guidance, supported by the Public Information Service multi-channel contact center and international development programs such as NIKI climate investment funding and ASWA II water and sanitation initiatives.

Product overview

Government.nl is the central government information portal of the Netherlands, functioning as a unified platform that provides citizens with access to government news, ministry information, parliamentary information, service contacts, policy documents, and government communications. The portal is built on Platform Rijksoverheid Online (PRO) and integrates the Public Information Service for multi-channel citizen engagement (phone, email, WhatsApp, X, Facebook), along with web analytics capabilities via Piwik PRO. The site also maintains a web archive for historical government information access.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Government.nl Central Information Portal
• Public Information Service
• Government.nl Web Archive
• Piwik PRO Analytics Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• 1.4 million people with access to safe water through ASWA II programme
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor, flagship and core.

• IAVIminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026IAVI announced an agreement with The University of Texas Medical Branch to develop a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-based vaccine candidate targeting Bundibugyo virus. CEPI awarded IAVI $3.2 million to accelerate early development, with WHO identifying it as the most promising BDBV vaccine in the pipeline.
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 May 2026The Government of the Netherlands reaffirmed its partnership with IOM by announcing EUR 16 million in unearmarked funding over four years. This follows high-level meetings between IOM Director General Amy Pope and Dutch ministers Sjoerd Sjoerdsma and Bart van den Brink. The funding strengthens IOM's capacity to support member states and vulnerable people on the move while reinforcing the Netherlands' role as a founding partner of the organization.
• UNESCOminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 May 2026The Dutch government formally returned the Anaimangalam Chola Copper Plates to India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit. This marked the culmination of a 14-year diplomatic effort including formal UNESCO-mediated claim and bilateral negotiations. The 21 copper plates, dating to Emperor Rajaraja Chola I (985–1014 CE), were housed at Leiden University for over 300 years.
• RejucoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2026Reju, a textile-to-textile regeneration company, was awarded €135 million under the Netherlands' NIKI (Nationale Investeringsregeling Klimaatprojecten Industrie) program to build an industrial-scale Regeneration Hub at Chemelot Industrial Park in Sittard-Geleen. The facility processes post-consumer polyester textiles into circular intermediates with approximately 50% lower carbon emissions compared with virgin polyester.
• UNICEFcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026The Accelerating Sanitation and Water for All Programme II (ASWA II), supported by the Government of the Netherlands and implemented by UNICEF from 2019 to 2023, brought safe water to over 1.4 million people and improved sanitation for more than 3.6 million people across eight sub-Saharan African countries. The programme included rigorous evaluation that led to concrete improvements including prioritized climate resilience, gender landscape analysis, and improved cross-sectoral coordination.
• World BankcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2026The Sint Maarten Wastewater Management Project, funded through the Sint Maarten Trust Fund with over US$25 million from the Netherlands and World Bank, implements wastewater infrastructure upgrades including rehabilitation of the A. Th. Illidge Road Wastewater Treatment Plant and expansion of sewer networks to underserved areas. The project will add approximately 700 new household sewer connections benefiting 8,400 households.
• International Labour Organization (ILO)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2025The ILO, in partnership with the Somali Regional State and with funding from the Government of the Netherlands, launched a Digital Innovation Hub in Jigjiga, Ethiopia's Somali Region. The hub provides co-working spaces, free internet connectivity, and comprehensive digital skills training to empower forcibly displaced persons and host communities as part of the PROSPECTS programme.
• NigeriaflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 June 2025The Netherlands returned 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, the largest physical return of Benin artifacts to Nigeria to date. 113 objects from Dutch State Collection and 6 from Municipality of Rotterdam were returned following extensive provenance research and recommendation by the Colonial Collections Committee. Official handover took place at National Museum in Lagos.

Scale indicators10 records

Direct peers

• Government of Belgium: Federal executive of a neighbouring Benelux parliamentary monarchy; shares coalition-government dynamics, EU policy alignment and similar public-service digital infrastructure (gov.be).
• Government of Switzerland (Bundesrat): Federal executive of a neighbouring non-EU but highly integrated European democracy with comparable direct-democracy elements, coalition dynamics and digital-government portal (admin.ch).
• Government of Sweden (Regeringskansliet): Nordic parliamentary executive with similar coalition/minority dynamics, progressive climate agenda and comparable digital-government (verksamhetsstyrning) maturity.
• Government of Norway (Regjeringen): Nordic parliamentary executive with comparable wealth-fund-backed fiscal capacity, international-development leadership and digital-services platform (regjeringen.no).
• Government of Austria (Bundesregierung): Federal parliamentary executive of a German-speaking EU neighbour with comparable coalition politics, federal ministries and EU multilateral alignment.
• Government of Denmark (Statsministeriet): Scandinavian parliamentary democracy with a comparable small-open-EU economy, climate-investment leadership and an advanced digital government platform (borger.dk).
• Government of Germany (Bundesregierung): Federal executive of another EU parliamentary democracy with comparable constitutional structure, coalition politics, federal ministries and EU/NATO multilateral footprint — the most direct peer to the Government of the Netherlands.

Broad incumbents

• European Commission: Supranational body that the Netherlands cooperates with on EU law, climate and digital policy — comparable governance stakeholder rather than a sovereign peer.
• Government of the United Kingdom (HM Government): Larger parliamentary executive running the internationally benchmarked gov.uk digital platform — overlaps on digital-government best practice but not on constitutional structure.
• Government of France (Gouvernement): Larger EU member-state executive with overlapping multilateral and EU policy roles but a semi-presidential system — broader-scope incumbent rather than a structural twin.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Rijksoverheid
• Facebookfacebook.com/Rijksoverheid
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/netherlands-ministry-of-economic-affairs

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments8 records

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