In 2024, 49 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds considered crime and environmental pollution to be (very) big problems. Forty-three percent see the number of people in the Netherlands and the mentality of the population as major problems. Young adults are more negative about these social issues than in 2018; for example, the number of people in the Netherlands is seen as a problem more than twice as often. Opinions on environmental pollution have hardly changed.
Young adults who followed or are following HBO or WO education find environmental pollution and the mentality of the population more often a major problem than young adults who followed or are following other education. Young adults in secondary education or MBO most often find crime a major problem.
According to the Annual Report National Youth Monitor, 61 percent of young adults had high personal wellbeing in 2024. This is almost the same as a year earlier but still lower than in the pre-corona year 2019 (69 percent). Young people are less positive about their social life, safety, financial future, and have less trust in institutions. There is little change in education/profession and neighborhood.
Young adults in secondary education or MBO have on average less often high personal wellbeing than HBO or WO graduates. They have less trust in institutions, lower expectations about their financial future, and are less satisfied with their work or educational opportunities and their neighborhood.
In 2019, young adults more often had high personal wellbeing than those aged 25 and over, but this has since reversed. In 2024, those aged 25 and over also had high personal wellbeing more often than before the start of the corona crisis.
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